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Lamkin Invitational
Women’s Golf Travels to California for Lamkin Invitational
2/13/2022 | Women's Golf
54-hole, Two-Day Tournament to Take Place at The Farms Golf Club
RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. – The Ole Miss women's golf team is set to resume its spring season by traveling to Rancho Santa Fe, California for the Lamkin Invitational, running Feb. 14-15.
The two-day, 54-hole tournament will take place at The Farms Golf Club just outside of San Diego, and features 14 total Division I teams in the field; nine of which are currently ranked in the Golfstat NCAA Top 25 Rankings.
| TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE |
Monday, Feb. 14 – 36 holes (Shotgun start scheduled for 10 a.m. CT)
Tuesday, Feb. 15 – 18 holes (Shotgun start scheduled for 10 a.m. CT)
| THE LINEUP |
McKinley Cunningham (R-Fr.)
-- Holds a stroke average of 76.92 over the 2021-22 season
-- Made her collegiate debut at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate
-- Carded new career lows 18-hole (71) and 54-hole (227) scores at the Stephens Cup
-- Earned comeback tie in match play against No. 5 golfer in nation at East Lake Cup
-- Finished with new career-high finish at the Lady Bulldog Invitational (T-12th)
Andrea Lignell (Jr.)
-- Logging a 74.50 stroke average on the 2021-22 season
-- Ranked No. 97 in the nation individually by Golfweek
-- Earned her first career top 5 finish at the East Lake Cup, tying for second place
-- Finished in the top 20 at the Stephens Cup, ending her tournament tied for 14th
-- Third place finish at the Rapsodo in the Desert marked second-consecutive top 5 finish as a Rebel
-- Selected to represent Team Sweden at the 2021 Spirit International Golf Championship
Chiara Tamburlini (Jr.)
-- Posting a 2021-22 stroke average of 73.44
-- Ranked No. 48 in the NCAA by Golfweek
-- Finished eighth at the East Lake Cup, earning her second career top 10 finish as a Rebel
-- Fourth place finish at East Lake Cup marked first top 5 finish since 2020
-- Earned second-consecutive top 5 finish at the Rapsodo in the Desert, finishing tied for fifth
-- Selected to represent Team Switzerland at the 2021 Spirit International Golf Championship
Julia Johnson (Sr.)
-- Holds team-high 2021-22 stroke average of 72.58
-- Named to the ANNIKA Award watch list
-- Ranked No. 33 in the nation by Golfstat and No. 66 by Golfweek
-- Opened 2021 fall season with fourth career tournament win at ANNIKA Intercollegiate
-- Finished fourth at the Jackson T. Stephens Cup in October
-- Will participate in the 2022 Augusta National Women's Am
Natacha Host Husted (Fr.)
-- 75.75 stroke average on the 2021-22 season
-- Made her collegiate debut at the Jackson T. Stephens Cup
-- Earned first collegiate top 10 finish with eighth place finish at East Lake Cup
-- Finished tied for 22nd at the Lady Bulldog Invitational 76-80–156 (+12)
-- Selected to represent Team Denmark at the 2021 Spirit International Golf Championship
| THE FIELD |
No. 13 Arizona
No. 18 Arizona State
California
Colorado
Kansas
No. 4 Oregon
No. 20 Ole Miss
Pepperdine
San Diego State
No. 12 San Jose State
No. 1 Stanford
No. 11 Texas
No. 14 UCLA
No. 23 USC
| THE COURSE |
Playing at 6,329 yards on Monday and 6,254 yards on Tuesday as a par 72, The Farms Golf Club sits just 20 miles north of downtown San Diego and welcomes numerous PGA and LPGA champions including Phil Mickelson and Annika Sorenstam. When the course was originally designed, PGA Tournament Professional Tommy Jacobs, the youngest player to be invited to The Masters for 58 years, worked with the original golf course architect to create a course layout that would "challenge all aspects of the game." Following in his footsteps, the only golfer in history to be awarded the Player of the Year on all three PGA Tours, Tom Lehman, played an integral part of the course redesign. The club has hosted several prestigious tournaments including the Trans-Mississippi Four-Ball Championship, USGA Amateur Qualifiers, SCGA Championships, NCAA Regionals, and Collegiate Invitationals.
| REBELS IN THE POLLS |
Ole Miss enters the Lamkin Invitational ranked as the No. 17 team in the nation according to Golfweek, while also holding the No. 20 spot in the Top 25 Team Rankings by Golfstat. Leading the way individually for the Rebels is Julia Johnson, who enters the weekend ranked No. 33 in the nation by Golfstat. Also holding top 100 rankings for the Rebels are Chiara Tamburlini and Andrea Lignell, who sit ranked No. 48 and No. 97 in the Golfweek/Sagarin NCAA Rankings.
| CUNNINGHAM LEADS THE WAY IN ATHENS |
Freshman McKinley Cunningham led the way for the Rebels by earning a share of a 12th place finish at the Lady Bulldog Invitational, shooting a 152 (+8) over two rounds of play. This marked a new career-high finish for Cunningham, as the redshirt-freshman surpassed her previous career-high finish of 18th at the Jackson T. Stephens Cup in October of 2021.
| LIGNELL, TAMBURLINI CRACK TOP 5 AGAIN |
Following the Rapsodo in the Desert, Rebel tandem Andrea Lignell and Chiara Tamburlini continued their hot 2021-22 season with third and tie for fifth place finishes, respectively. This marked the second consecutive tournament in which Lignell and Tamburlini have wound up in the top 5, as both did so in the team's fall season finale at the East Lake Cup (Lignell - T2nd; Tamburlini - T4th).
| JOHNSON INVITED BACK TO AUGUSTA |
For the second consecutive year, senior Julia Johnson has received an invitation to attend the annual Augusta National Women's Amateur tournament, which is set to take place a week before The Masters takes place in Augusta, Ga. later this spring. Johnson, who was invited to the inaugural event in 2020 prior to its cancellation and took part in the 2021 Amateur last spring, will now look to become the first ever Rebel to attend the event multiple times. Johnson currently sits ranked No. 10 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings (WAGR).
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