ISU Golfers’ Open Season in Sunshine State

AMES, Iowa – The Iowa State women’s golf team will get its anticipated spring season underway this weekend as the team travels to Orlando, Fla., to square off against Central Florida and Purdue in a triangular. The triangular will be in match-play format, so the scores will not count toward their official records for this spring. Each team will play 36 holes at the 6,150-yard North Shore Golf Club on Saturday. This will be the second time this school year that the Cyclones have played against the Knights of Central Florida, while it will be the first against the Boilermakers. The first meeting between ISU and UCF came at the Lady Badger Invitational, when the Cyclones recorded a runner-up finish on Sept. 9-10. The match-play triangular will be good tune-up for the regular season with ISU playing against two top-level Division I teams in Purdue and UCF. The Boilermakers head into spring action ranked by Golfweek as the No. 11 team in the nation. Iowa State’s head coach Christie Martens served as an assistant on Purdue’s staff from 2001-05. Martens helped lead the Boilermakers to the NCAA Championship in each year of her tenure. ISU will head into spring play led by its two seniors Karly Pinder and Kendra Hanson. The two seniors have played in more than 85 rounds during their Cyclone careers and look to close out their careers on a strong note. The duo has recorded six top-10 finishes at ISU. Along with the two seniors, the Cyclones add freshman Victoria Stefansen to the mix this spring. Stefansen, a native of Roervig, Denmark, redshirted in the fall. She participated in the Nykredit Masters, a 2007 Ladies European Tour event in Helsingor, Denmark in September.