The Gold Rush
Feb. 25-26 | Old Ranch Country Club | Seal Beach, Calif.
Par 72Â |Â 6,115 yards
Live Scoring
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THE TOURNAMENT:
-Â The 54-hole, two-day event features 15 teams and a number of individuals. The golfers will play 36 holes on Monday and 18 on Tuesday to finish.
-Â The field will consist of 15 teams, including top-50 opponents San Jose State and Florida. Long Beach State will serve as the tournament host.
- GU has competed in The Gold Rush six previous times with solid results.Â
- The Zags won the tournament in 2014, withÂ
Alice Kim winning the individual title at one-under par. Â
SPRING OPEN AT BATTLE AT THE ROCK
- At the spring opening Battle at the Rock,Â
Francesca Santoni fired a career-best, three-under 69 to finish tied for fifth and lead GU to fourth as a team. It was her first-career Top 5.
- Freshman
Quynn Duong placed 12th overall, and freshman
Federica Torre was 21st overall in her first career tournament.Â
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FALL RECAP:Â
- As a team, Gonzaga had a pair of sixth-place finishes in the fall season. Those came at the Battle at Old Works in Anaconda, Montana, and the Pat Bradley Invitational in Florida.Â
- Gonzaga freshmanÂ
Quynn Duong placed in the top 20 four times in four tournaments, including second-place finishes at the Battle at Old Works and the Pat Bradley Invitational, and a third-place finish at the Pat Lesser Harbottle Invitational in Tacoma, Wash.
- Duong led the Zags with a 72.33 stroke average in the fall season.Â
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Francesca Santoni was next-best on the squad with a 75.33 stroke average and one top 10 finish, a ninth-place showing at the Battle at Old Works.
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Jessica Mangrobang was at a 76.92 stroke average for the fall season.
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NEW ADDITION
- Gonzaga added freshmanÂ
Federica Torre at the semester break, and she competed in her first collegiate tournament at the Battle at the Rock.
- Torre, a native of Ronco Scrivia, Italy, has a number of victories in her career, including two in 2018. She won the 64th Women's and Men's City of Rome Golden Cup in Rome in early April, and then in August, she hoisted the trophy after winning the 23rd Grand Prix "City of Cervia" by nine strokes.
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SCHEDULE:
- The Gold Rush is the second of four tournaments leading up to the West Coast Conference Championships on April 18-20.