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Women
What they have to say: “To welcome them here and to really showcase these female athletes is incredible. To see where the women’s game is, it’s incredible to see the transformation on the women’s side and our athletes. To be able to showcase that here in Stillwater is something that I’m really looking forward to.”
Courtney Jones
Cowgirl golf coach
facilities here are still some of the best that I have seen anywhere in the world. This course gets you ready for the tour life. It tests every part of your game and especially makes you mentally strong, too.” When the individuals and teams take the course this week, Lindberg will be watching on her TV as she gets prepared for another pro tournament. While Jones’ team
didn’t qualify, she and the other Cowgirls will be there to root on Broze and show the rest of the nation what Karsten Creek and Stillwater has to offer. “I think the game of women’s golf is at its very best right now and the future is going to keep getting better and better,” Jones said. “To be able to showcase that here at Karsten Creek is really special.”
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Broze is one of the types of players that the women’s side is consistently churning out, with 10 former Cowgirls on tour. One such player who cut her teeth at Karsten Creek is Pernilla Lindberg, the program’s only product to win a major. Lindberg, one of the top golfers on the LPGA Tour, looks at Karsten as one of the driving forces behind her success as well as her grit to come out on top in this year’s ANA Inspiration. “For me, as soon as I saw the facilities here, I was sold,” Lindberg said. “This is what I needed and what I thought would help me get ready for the tour life and it did. To this point, and though I have been touring for nine years, I can say that the practice
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a sense of accomplishment. “That was something that was a dream of ours,” Jones said. “We put a bid in for every single national chamContinued from Page 12 pionship, whether it was a regional or whatever in the So for Jones to show some hopes that these student people who haven’t seen athletes could play in Stillwater in four decades or Stillwater and in front maybe never what Karsten of their home fans, has to offer is a big deal for which we don’t her. get to do as a “To welcome them here gold team or and to really showcase these female athletes is incredible,” golf program Jones said. “To see where the very often. Tennis, softwomen’s game is, it’s incredi- ball and the other sports ble to see the transformation get to play here a lot so for us, it would really on the women’s side and our be such a neat opathletes. To be able to showportunity to get to case that here in Stillwater play at home in front is something that I’m really of their friends and looking forward to.” family and supporters When Jones came to OSU, of OSU.” she was an assistant under While the Cowgirls narAlan Bratton, who is now the rowly missed the cut in their Cowboys’ coach. Back then, Regional and didn’t qualify the two had a dream of getting Karsten to host the illus- as a team, OSU senior Emma Broze made it as an individutrious event so to finally see it come to fruition gives Jones al after winning a playoff.
HOLE ##14 Par 5 570 Yards