Michigan State University
Buckeye Invitational
Women's Golf Wraps Regular Season at Buckeye Invitational
4/10/2025 4:57:00 PM | Women's Golf
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State's women's golf team closes out its regular season in Columbus, Ohio for the Therese Hession Buckeye Invitational.
The two-day, 54-hole tournament will be held on the Scarlet Course at Ohio State University GC. The course is a par 72 that plays 6,319 yards.
Michigan State will tee off at 8:30 a.m., playing alongside host Ohio State and Wisconsin as part of a shotgun start.
THE LINEUP
4. Katie Lu
5. Taylor Kehoe
LIVE SCORING
Live scoring will be available via Clippd.
THE BUCKEYE INVITATIONAL FIELD
The 13-team field includes four nationally-ranked teams: host Ohio State (17), Indiana, Kent State, Rutgers, Michigan State (25), Youngstown State, Ball State, Western Michigan, Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, Findlay (5), Ohio, Grand Valley State (8).
LAST TIME OUT
Michigan State finished 11th place among 15 schools with a score of 1-under par 863 at the Clemson Invitational, played at The Reserve At Lake Keowee in Sunset, Ga. … Due to Sunday's forecast, teams played 27 holes on Saturday, leaving the final nine of the three-day, 54-hole tournament to be played Sunday morning … The Spartans finished in 11th place and were one of 11 teams to finish under par for the tournament … After shooting 7-over par 295 in the first round and even-par in the second round, the Spartans fired an 8-under par 280, good for the sixth-best round among all schools competing … Junior Paula Balanzategui finished in a tie for 29th place after posting a 3-under par 213 … Balanzategui went (76-71-66) over three rounds … Her third-round score of 6-under par 66 marked a career-best round … Senior Brooke Biermann shot even-par 216, finishing in a tie for 36th … Biermann went (71-72-73) over her three rounds and scored five birdies … Senior Katie Lu shot 2-over par 218 and finished tied for 45th place … Lu went (75-74-69) over three rounds … With a 3-under-par 69 in the third round, she collected her seventh even- or under-par round of the season … Sophomore Ana Sofia Murcia posted scores of (73-71-75), giving her an overall 3-over par 219 for the tournament and finishing tied for 48th place … Freshman Catalina Monroy finished tied for 67th place with an overall score of 9-over par 225 … Monroy went (76-77-72), and her third-round even-par 72 marked her third even- or under-par round of the season … Playing as an individual, senior Shannon Kennedy tied for 58th place after turning in scores of (73-72-77) for an overall 6-over-par 222.
SPARTANS AT THE BUCKEYE INVITATIONAL
Michigan State has won the tournament six times, the most of any school outside of host Ohio State. MSU's Buckeye Invitational wins under head coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll have come in 2005, 2011, 2013 and 2017. MSU topped Texas by one stroke in the final round to win in 2017, finished third in 2018 and second in 2019. The Spartans finished as the runner-up in 2023 and 2024.
Players Mentioned
