Friday, March 29
Athens, Ga. / UGA Golf Course
8:30 a.m. (36 Holes)
Florida Gators
at
Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic
Jackie Lucena awaits to tee off at the 2024 Gators Invitational.
No. 15 Gators Finish Regular Season in Athens
Thursday, March 28, 2024 | Women's Golf
The Liz Murphey Collegiate begins on Friday at 8:30 a.m.
TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
Dates: Friday, March 29 - Saturday, March 30
Location: UGA Golf Course - Athens, Ga.
Host: University of Georgia
Course Par/Yardage: Par 72 - 6,351 yards
Format: Stroke play - 36 holes Friday and 18 on Tuesday
Tee Times: 8:30 a.m. shotgun start Friday and TBA on Saturday
Live Scoring: Golf Stat
Social Media: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
FLORIDA LINE UP:
No. 1 - Inès Archer
No. 2 - Maisie Filler
No. 3 - Jackie Lucena
No. 4 - Paula Francisco
No. 5 - Marina Escobar
TEE OFF
The No. 15 Florida women's golf team finishes the regular season at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic this weekend in Athens, Ga.
THE FIELD
Alabama, Auburn, Augusta, Charleston, Emory, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Southern, Illinois, Kansas State, Michigan, Missouri, N.C. State, San Diego State, SMU and Virginia.
TOURNAMENT HISTORY
This annual tournament is held in honor of Liz Murphey, former Associate Athletic Director at UGA and women's intercollegiate sports pioneer. It is one of the oldest women's collegiate tournaments in the United States.
Florida won the event in 2001-02 season and swept the tournament with Jeanne Cho's individual victory. The Gators played in the event last year and finished 3rd as a team and Maisie Filler placed 3rd.
LAST TIME OUT
Florida finished sixth at the Briar's Creek Invitational led by freshman Inès Archer placing T7 behind a tournament score of 215 (-1). It marked her second top-10 and fourth top-25 finishes of the season.Her first two rounds of 70 (-2) set a new season-low for the first-year Gator.
NO. 1
Florida women's golfer Maisie Filler earned the No. 1 ranked player in the country by the NCAA Rankings on Feb. 21. She held the ranking for two weeks and is currently ranked No. 3.
Ranked No. 2, Filler won her third tournament title of the season on Tuesday at the Moon Golf Invitational, in a field that featured 12 top-25 teams. Currently, her three wins are tied for the most in the nation. She is also the eighth Gator all-time to win three medalist honors in a season with Sierra Brooks being the most recent in 2018.
The victory was Filler's third consecutive in stroke play tournaments as the spring opener was altered to match play only. She went 3-0 in the event with wins against three ranked teams; No. 4 UCLA, No. 8 Texas and No. 20 Pepperdine.
She shot a 54-hole score of 207 (-9) for a three-shot victory. Filler recorded all three rounds (66-69-72) of par or better with an opening round of 66 (-6). Over her 54 holes, she made 35 pars and 14 birdies. She averaged 2.83 on par3s, 3.90 on par4s and 4.67 on par5s.
A native of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., Filler owns a stroke average of 69.5 and out of 15 total rounds this season, only two have been over par. Outside of her three victories, she has a runner-up finish a the Glass City Invitational.
FALL RECAP
Florida dominated the fall season with three consecutive victories behind back-to-back individual victories from Filler. A combined 25 strokes marked the margin of victory by UF along with 17 individual top-25 finishes. The team victories totaled 31 by head coach Emily Glaser; 32 total as she was an assistant coach for a win in 2011-12 at UF. This is the fifth time under Glaser that Florida has won three events in a season with the last being in 2019-20. It is also the seventh occurrence of multiple victories in a season with Glaser at the helm.
Maisie Filler's fall play earned her two medalist honors and a spot on the ANNIKA Award Watch List and a two-time SEC Golfer of the Week recipient. She currently leads the Gators in nearly every statistical category and ranks second in stroke average in the SEC with a 69.67. She is one of two golfers in the SEC (LSU's Ingrid Lindblad) who has two solo victories this season, which is also tied for second-most in Division I. The senior has finished 1-1-T2 in the last three events and under par for three of the four
AUGUSTA BOUND
Maisie Filler received her second invitation to play in the Augusta National Women's Amateur (ANWA). She marks a Gator representative every year of the tournament, including the inaugural event with three (Sierra Brooks, Annabell Fuller and Marta Perez). Filler is the second UF golfer to play in the event twice, joining Fuller (2019, 2021, 2022).
Beginning the week prior to the 88th Masters Tournament, the international field will compete across 54 holes of stroke play, with a cut to 30 players taking place after 36 holes. The first two rounds will take place on the Island and Bluff nines at Champions Retreat Golf Club on Wednesday, April 3 and Thursday, April 4. The entire field will then play Augusta National for an official practice round on Friday, April 5. The final round will take place at Augusta National on Saturday, April 6 and will feature the competitors who made the cut.
STRONG DEBUT
Freshman Sophie Stevens had a collegiate debut to remember as the Highland, Michigan native finished a team-best T15. In her first round she posted a bogey-free 66 (-5) and later added a 69 (-2) in round three to end 5-under overall.
In her second tournament she placed T7 and finishing with a 54-hole score 216 (E) en route to being named SEC Freshman of the Week.
ONE LAST TIME
The duo Marina Escobar and Jackie Lucena returned for their fifth and final collegiate season heading into the 2023-24 campaign. This will be their third season together as Lucena joined the program in 2021 as a transfer from UC Davis.
NEW FACES IN THE ORANGE & BLUE
Five new Gators joined the program this year in Georgia Southern transfer Sarunchana Rattanasin and freshmen Ines Archer, Paula Francisco, Addison Klonowski and Sophie Stevens.
THE TURN
The postseason is up next with the SEC Championship (April 12-16) at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida. Following the tournament, UF will find out its regional selection on April 24.
Dates: Friday, March 29 - Saturday, March 30
Location: UGA Golf Course - Athens, Ga.
Host: University of Georgia
Course Par/Yardage: Par 72 - 6,351 yards
Format: Stroke play - 36 holes Friday and 18 on Tuesday
Tee Times: 8:30 a.m. shotgun start Friday and TBA on Saturday
Live Scoring: Golf Stat
Social Media: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
FLORIDA LINE UP:
No. 1 - Inès Archer
No. 2 - Maisie Filler
No. 3 - Jackie Lucena
No. 4 - Paula Francisco
No. 5 - Marina Escobar
TEE OFF
The No. 15 Florida women's golf team finishes the regular season at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic this weekend in Athens, Ga.
THE FIELD
Alabama, Auburn, Augusta, Charleston, Emory, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Southern, Illinois, Kansas State, Michigan, Missouri, N.C. State, San Diego State, SMU and Virginia.
TOURNAMENT HISTORY
This annual tournament is held in honor of Liz Murphey, former Associate Athletic Director at UGA and women's intercollegiate sports pioneer. It is one of the oldest women's collegiate tournaments in the United States.
Florida won the event in 2001-02 season and swept the tournament with Jeanne Cho's individual victory. The Gators played in the event last year and finished 3rd as a team and Maisie Filler placed 3rd.
LAST TIME OUT
Florida finished sixth at the Briar's Creek Invitational led by freshman Inès Archer placing T7 behind a tournament score of 215 (-1). It marked her second top-10 and fourth top-25 finishes of the season.Her first two rounds of 70 (-2) set a new season-low for the first-year Gator.
NO. 1
Florida women's golfer Maisie Filler earned the No. 1 ranked player in the country by the NCAA Rankings on Feb. 21. She held the ranking for two weeks and is currently ranked No. 3.
Ranked No. 2, Filler won her third tournament title of the season on Tuesday at the Moon Golf Invitational, in a field that featured 12 top-25 teams. Currently, her three wins are tied for the most in the nation. She is also the eighth Gator all-time to win three medalist honors in a season with Sierra Brooks being the most recent in 2018.
The victory was Filler's third consecutive in stroke play tournaments as the spring opener was altered to match play only. She went 3-0 in the event with wins against three ranked teams; No. 4 UCLA, No. 8 Texas and No. 20 Pepperdine.
She shot a 54-hole score of 207 (-9) for a three-shot victory. Filler recorded all three rounds (66-69-72) of par or better with an opening round of 66 (-6). Over her 54 holes, she made 35 pars and 14 birdies. She averaged 2.83 on par3s, 3.90 on par4s and 4.67 on par5s.
A native of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., Filler owns a stroke average of 69.5 and out of 15 total rounds this season, only two have been over par. Outside of her three victories, she has a runner-up finish a the Glass City Invitational.
FALL RECAP
Florida dominated the fall season with three consecutive victories behind back-to-back individual victories from Filler. A combined 25 strokes marked the margin of victory by UF along with 17 individual top-25 finishes. The team victories totaled 31 by head coach Emily Glaser; 32 total as she was an assistant coach for a win in 2011-12 at UF. This is the fifth time under Glaser that Florida has won three events in a season with the last being in 2019-20. It is also the seventh occurrence of multiple victories in a season with Glaser at the helm.
Maisie Filler's fall play earned her two medalist honors and a spot on the ANNIKA Award Watch List and a two-time SEC Golfer of the Week recipient. She currently leads the Gators in nearly every statistical category and ranks second in stroke average in the SEC with a 69.67. She is one of two golfers in the SEC (LSU's Ingrid Lindblad) who has two solo victories this season, which is also tied for second-most in Division I. The senior has finished 1-1-T2 in the last three events and under par for three of the four
AUGUSTA BOUND
Maisie Filler received her second invitation to play in the Augusta National Women's Amateur (ANWA). She marks a Gator representative every year of the tournament, including the inaugural event with three (Sierra Brooks, Annabell Fuller and Marta Perez). Filler is the second UF golfer to play in the event twice, joining Fuller (2019, 2021, 2022).
Beginning the week prior to the 88th Masters Tournament, the international field will compete across 54 holes of stroke play, with a cut to 30 players taking place after 36 holes. The first two rounds will take place on the Island and Bluff nines at Champions Retreat Golf Club on Wednesday, April 3 and Thursday, April 4. The entire field will then play Augusta National for an official practice round on Friday, April 5. The final round will take place at Augusta National on Saturday, April 6 and will feature the competitors who made the cut.
STRONG DEBUT
Freshman Sophie Stevens had a collegiate debut to remember as the Highland, Michigan native finished a team-best T15. In her first round she posted a bogey-free 66 (-5) and later added a 69 (-2) in round three to end 5-under overall.
In her second tournament she placed T7 and finishing with a 54-hole score 216 (E) en route to being named SEC Freshman of the Week.
ONE LAST TIME
The duo Marina Escobar and Jackie Lucena returned for their fifth and final collegiate season heading into the 2023-24 campaign. This will be their third season together as Lucena joined the program in 2021 as a transfer from UC Davis.
NEW FACES IN THE ORANGE & BLUE
Five new Gators joined the program this year in Georgia Southern transfer Sarunchana Rattanasin and freshmen Ines Archer, Paula Francisco, Addison Klonowski and Sophie Stevens.
THE TURN
The postseason is up next with the SEC Championship (April 12-16) at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida. Following the tournament, UF will find out its regional selection on April 24.
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