This Week in Michigan Women's Golf: Florida State Match Up

» Michigan will return to tournament play for the first time in nearly a year when it heads to the Florida State Match Up.
» The Florida State Match Up replaced the originally scheduled spring opener, the Heroes Ladies Intercollegiate, that fell during the U-M athletics two-week pause.
» Ashley Kim returns for her senior season after having a career junior year in which she earned All-Big Ten first-team honors.
» Monet Chun is scheduled to make her collegiate debut in the starting lineup.

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Fri-Sun., Feb. 26-28 -- at Florida State Match Up
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Next on the Tee: Florida State Match Up

It has been 11 months and 18 days since the last time the University of Michigan women's golf team played in a tournament. The Wolverines will snap that streak by heading to Tallahassee, Fla., for the Florida State Match Up, Friday through Sunday (Feb. 26-28) at Seminole Legacy Golf Course. The three-day, 54-hole event will feature a 13-team field. Scoring will be five players, count four low scores, with the tournament set up for a par 72 at 6,255 yards.

The Florida State Match Up Field

There will be 13 teams competing in the Florida State Match Up, including Clemson, Coastal Carolina, Florida State, Jacksonville, Kansas State, Kent State, Memphis, Mercer, Michigan, Missouri, Notre Dame, Ohio State and South Florida.

The Florida State Match Up Schedule

Wednesday, Feb. 24 -- Travel Day
Thursday, Feb. 25 -- Practice Round, 12:12 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 26 -- First Round, 8:30 a.m. (tee times off No. 1 and 10, playing in threesomes)
Saturday, Feb. 27 -- Second Round, 8:30 a.m. (tee times off No. 1 and 10, playing in threesomes)
Sunday, Feb. 29 -- Final Round, 8 a.m. (tee times off No. 1 and 10, playing in threesomes)

The Florida State Match Up Lineup

Michigan will travel five starters for the Florida State Match Up: junior Ashley Lau, sophomore Hailey Borja, senior Ashley Kim, junior Sophia Trombetta and freshman Monet Chun. Sophomore Mikaela Schulz will travel and play as an individual.

Wolverine Bites

• Prior to the spring and postseason canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, Michigan finished seven tournaments last season, posting three top-five finishes -- as the runner-up at the Glass City Invitational (Sept. 16-17, 2019), third at the Florida Gators Invitational (March 7-8, 2020) and fourth at the Hurricane Invitational (Oct. 11-13, 2020) when Ashley Kim earned her first career title. As a team, the Wolverines posted 294.52 per round as a team, with a pair of sub-par team tallies.

• Michigan was scheduled to play six tournament this spring; however, the Wolverines were unable to play in the opener -- Purdue's Heroes Ladies Intercollegiate -- after the U-M department went on a 14-day pause. The Florida State tournament was a late addition to help keep the tournament schedule at six prior to postseason beginning.

• Hailey Borja was named the Big Ten Golfer of the Week (Jan. 20) after tying her career low with a 69 (-3) as Michigan prepared for its tournament season with a 289-322 victory over Florida Gulf Coast during a training trip in Florida. She compiled four birdies and a match-best 13 pars, finishing as U-M's top golfer by four shots and posting the Wolverines' only sub-par round of the match.

• It was quite a start to her U-M career for Hailey Borja a season ago. She posted nine rounds at par or better including three sub-par rounds. She posted a career-low 69 (-1) in the second round of the Florida Gators Invitational while adding a 70 (-2) in the final round of the IJGA Collegiate Invitational and a 71 (-1) in the first round of the Glass City Invitational -- her first collegiate round. She had three top-20 finishes, two top-10 and one top-five -- tying for fourth at the Glass City Invitational in her first career event. She was second on U-M with a 73.76 per round average.

• In her career debut last season, Hailey Borja's fourth-place tie at the Glass City Invitational was the best opening tournament finish for a U-M freshman since 1995. The previous best was by Sharon Park, who finished fifth in her collegiate debut at the Spartan Invitational (Sept. 16-17, 1995), exactly 24 years prior to Borja's performance.

• Before the cancellation of the spring/postseason, Ashley Kim was having a career year, leading U-M with a 72.67 scoring average -- more than a stroke better than her prior best in 2018-19 (74.86). She posted 11 of her 21 rounds at or below par with a team-best seven sub-par tallies, including her season-low 68 (-2) in the final round of the Florida Gators Invitational (March 7-8) -- one of four sub-70 scores. A two-time Big Ten Golfer of the Week, she posted five top-20 individual finishes in her seven events, with three in the top five, including her first individual win at Miami's Hurricane Invitational (March 2-3). She carded four of the top five 54-hole tournament totals, with three sub-par tallies.

• Ashley Kim (first team) and Hailey Borja (second team) were named All-Big Ten in 2019-20. It marked the fourth time in program history the Wolverines had multiple selections in the same season, while Borja became the first U-M freshman to be named all-conference. Overall, Kim and Borja became U-M's 14th and 15th all-conference selections. The pair combined to finish as the top Wolverine in five of the seven events, with Kim nabbing Michigan's top spot in the final four events of the season.

• Ashley Lau quietly went about her business in her second season in Ann Arbor. Last season she averaged 74.62 per round as she produced 18 of her 21 rounds at 76 or lower. She tied her career low with a 71 (+1) in the final round of the Florida Gators Invitational, which led to her career-low-tying 217 54-hole total. She averaged 223.86 per 54-hole event.

• Last year, seven of the nine Wolverines recorded a sub-par round tally. Mikaela Schulz and Ashley Kim owned the team's season low as Schulz posted a 68 (-4) in her first collegiate round at the Shirley Spork EMU Invitational, while Kim had a 68 (-2) in the final round of the Florida Gators Invitational. Overall, Kim led with seven sub-par rounds, while Sophia Trombetta, Hailey Borja and Anika Dy each had three.