Kentucky Women’s Golf Takes On Highly Touted Field at Mason Rudolph Championship
FRANKLIN, Tenn. – The University of Kentucky women’s golf team will compete in its second tournament of the season – a familiar one – at the Mason Rudolph Championship at the Vanderbilt Legends Club (North Course) in Franklin, Tennessee, from Friday through Sunday. The Wildcats have competed in the tournament for the last three straight seasons, although this year features a brand new lineup.
Kentucky will tee off Friday on hole No. 10, beginning at 11:05 a.m. ET, paired with Alabama and Middle Tennessee.
The event will feature 17 teams, including seven teams ranked in the Women’s Golf Coaches Association Preseason Top 25. The field consists of Alabama, No. 17 Arizona, Arizona State, Baylor, Chattanooga, No. 18 Clemson, Georgia Southern, Kentucky, Lipscomb, Middle Tennessee, No. 16 Mississippi State, Northwestern, T4 South Carolina, T4 Texas, No. 9 Texas A&M, No. 19 Vanderbilt’s “A” Team and Vanderbilt’s “B” Team.
Kentucky has met just one of those teams so far this season, hosting Middle Tennessee at the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational less than two weeks ago.
Brooke Oberparleiter is the lone Cat to have ever played at the Mason Rudolph Championship, returning to the event as a sophomore in 2024. It will mark her first lineup appearance this season, earning the plug after winning a qualifier earlier in the week. She did play in the season opener at the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational, however, as an individual. There, she strung together a 73, 73 and 79 – once pacing the Cats – for a 9-over-par 225 and a share of 23rd place.
The Wildcats’ lineup this weekend includes a mixture of freshmen and sophomores in freshman Elin Pudas Remler, freshman C.A. Carter, sophomore Oberparleiter, freshman Raleygh Simpson and sophomore Cathryn Brown.
All three of the freshmen in the lineup this weekend – Pudas Remler , Carter and Simpson – played in the season opener, also their college debuts, less than two weeks ago, while Pudas Remler and Simpson contributed to the team total each day of competition. Carter contributed to the team total two of the three days of competition.
Pudas Remler, a Gothenburg, Sweden, native, will play in the No. 1 spot at the Mason Rudolph Championship after leading the lineup and earning tied-for-third-place overall at the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational. Following her first-round 77, she went 3-under-par 69 and 2-under-par 70 for an even-par 216 tournament total and to climb more than two dozen spots up the individual leaderboard.
Pudas Remler and Marta López Echevarría, who is out this week with an injury, are tied for the team lead with two rounds of par-or-better through just three rounds so far this season.
Eddyville, Kentucky, native Cathryn Brown recorded a par round in the season opener, too, overcoming a tough two days with a third-round 72. As just a freshman last season in 2023-24, she earned a 73.5 stroke average through 18 rounds of golf, and she was the only player on the team to contribute every round (16) to the team total.
From one Bluegrass native to the other, C.A. Carter entered the lineup as an alternate, making the drive down early Thursday.
The freshman from Lexington got off to a hot start to the season, winning a qualifier to take the No. 1 spot in the lineup at the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational. In her college debut, she put together a 76, 77 and 77 to find a tie for 37th place on the championship course at Champion Trace.
The track at Vanderbilt’s Legends Club’s North Course will play as a par 72 for 6,515 yards. The field will play 18 holes each day of the event, and just four of the five scores will be counted each day. The field can expect warm temperatures in the lower-to-mid 90s, with no chance of rain in the forecast.
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