This Week in Michigan Women's Golf: Indiana Invitational

» Michigan will close its regular season at the Indiana Invitational at the Pfau Course.
» All 14 Big Ten programs will be part of the event in what will be a preview of the conference championship in a few weeks.
» U-M has posted three straight top-five team finishes this season, and five straight dating back to last year.
» Ashley Lau, who leads U-M with a 72.90 scoring average, will play U-M's No. 1 spot for a third straight event.

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Sat-Sun., April 17-18 -- at Indiana Invitational (Bloomington, Ind.)
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Next on the Tee: Indiana Invitational

In what will be a preview of the upcoming Big Ten Championships, the 22nd-ranked University of Michigan women's golf team as well as all 13 other conference programs will make their way to Bloomington, Ind., Saturday and Sunday (April 17-18) for the Indiana Invitational -- the Wolverines' regular-season finale. The two-day, 54-hole event will be played at IU's recently renovated Pfau Course on campus. Scoring will be six players, count four low scores with the course set up for a par of 72 at 6,186 yards.

The Indiana Invitational Field

There will be 16 teams competing in the Indiana Invitational: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kent State, Maryland, Michigan State, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers, Wisconsin and Xavier.

The Indiana Invitational Schedule

Thursday, April 15 -- Travel Day
Friday, April 16 -- Practice Round (18), 12:40 p.m. (tee time off No. 1)
Saturday, April 17 -- First Round (18), 8:30 a.m. (tee times off Nos. 1 and 10)
Saturday, April 17 -- Second Round (18), continuous play after completion of the first round
Sunday, April 18 -- Final Round (18), 8:30 a.m. (tee times off Nos. 1 and 10)

The Indiana Invitational Lineup

Michigan will travel six starters for the Indiana Invitational. Junior Ashley Lau heads up the squad with freshman Monet Chun, senior Ashley Kim and sophomore Hailey Borja making up the top four. Sophomores Mikaela Schulz and Anika Dy round out U-M's traveling six.

Wolverine Bites

• Michigan has opened this season with three straight top-five team finishes. After nearly a year away from tournament play, U-M was third at the Florida State Match Up (896) and followed with a fifth-place showing at the Briar's Creek Invitational (890) before positing a third-place finish at the PING/ASU Invitational (864). Adding in last season and before COVID-19 truncated the season, U-M has posted five straight top-five team finishes with three of them in the state of Florida -- fourth at 2020 Hurricane Invitational (891), third at 2020 Florida Gators Invitational (861) and FSU's Match Up.

• With a team average of 293.90, the Wolverines have posted four straight team tallies of 292 or better, with a season-low 286 (-2) in the final round of the PING/ASU Invitational.

• Ashley Lau, who will play in U-M's No. 1 position, continues to be the Wolverines' quiet grinder. After opening the spring with a 73 (t-2nd) in the match against Florida Golf Coast, she tied for 18th (224) at the FSU Match Up. Since then, she has led the Maize and Blue in the next two events -- Briar's Creek Invitational (7th, 219) and PING/ASU Invitational (t-6th, 213, -3). She leads the Wolverines with a 72.90 per round average. She posted her single-round career best (68, -4) at the ASU event, which led to a career-low 213 (-3) -- a first sub-par 54-hole tally.

• It is crazy to think Monet Chun keeps getting better. She has started her Michigan career with four straight finishes among the top 15. After tying for second (73) to start her career vs. FGCU, she has gone on to tie for 12th at the Florida State Match Up (223), tie for 13th at the Briar's Creek Invitational (221) and place ninth at the PING/ASU Invitational (215, -1). She is second on the Wolverines with a 73.20 per round average.

• Before tournament play began, 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.

• Borja has started every event this season and is carrying a 73.50 scoring average. She is tied for the team lead with three subpar rounds and has three top-25 individual finishes with a season-best ninth at the FSU Match Up (222). Last season, Borja posted nine rounds at par or better including three sub-par rounds.

• After a slow start, Ashley Kim posted a season-best tie for 17th at the PING/ASU Invitational with a 217 (+1) tally, as she posted a season-low 70 (-2) in the first round. She is scoring at a 75.10 per round clip -- fourth best on U-M. Last season, she led U-M with a 72.67 scoring average. She highlighted 2019-20 by posting her first individual win at Miami's Hurricane Invitational (March 2-3).

• Last season, Ashley Kim (first team) and Hailey Borja (second team) were named All-Big Ten. 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 become U-M's 14th and 15th all-conference selections.