{"id":555474,"date":"2026-03-21T18:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555474\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T18:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:50:13","slug":"womens-golf-heads-to-nashville-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555474\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Golf Heads to Nashville Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"

HERMITAGE, Tenn. – – The stretch run to the 2026 Mid-American Conference Championships begins Monday for the Ball State women’s golf team, when it opens play in the two-day Nashville Invitational hosted by Lipscomb March 23-24.
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\nThe 16-team event will take place at the Hermitage Golf Club on the General’s Retreat Golf Course. Action begins at 8 a.m. CT with a double shotgun start on holes one and 10. Teams will play the first two runs Monday and the final round Tuesday on the 72-par, 6,700-yard course.
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\nRepresenting the Cardinals will be sophomore\u00a0Sophie Korthuijs<\/a>, senior\u00a0Sarah Gallagher<\/a>,\u00a0senior\u00a0Sabrina Langerak<\/a>, junior\u00a0JJ Gregston<\/a>\u00a0and senior\u00a0Jasmine Driscoll<\/a>. In addition, Skylar Dean<\/a> will be completing as an individual.
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\nThe event will be a good test for the Ball State squad which is one of four top 150 teams in the field. The Cardinals currently rank 139th in the national rankings according to SCOREBOARD Powered by clippd. Delaware is the top-ranked program at 111, followed by host Lipscomb (119) and Seattle (121).
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\nNEWS & NOTES:
\n– Last time out, the Cardinals placed fourth among the eight-team field at the Puerto Rico Iguana Invite (March 3-5) hosted by Ball State on the\u00a0Flamboyan Course at the Palmas Del Mar Golf Club … After a slow start, the team rebounded with two of its five lowest team rounds of the season with a -1 (287) second round and a +3 (291) third round … The -1 is Ball State’s second lowest of the season, while the +3 is the fifth lowest.
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\n– Senior\u00a0Sabrina Langerak<\/a>\u00a0led the charge over the final 36 holes, shooting -2 (70) in the second round, followed by a Ball State career-low -3 (69) in the third … Overall, the team turned in four rounds below par at the tournament, including an opening-round -1 (71) from junior\u00a0JJ Gregston<\/a>\u00a0and a -1 (71) second round from senior\u00a0Sarah Gallagher<\/a>.
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\n– So far this season, the Cardinals have turned in 24 total rounds at or below par …\u00a0Sabrina Langerak<\/a>\u00a0and sophomore\u00a0Sophie Korthuijs<\/a>\u00a0lead the way with six apiece, while\u00a0Sarah Gallagher<\/a>\u00a0is not far behind with five.
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\n\u00a0– Ball State closed the fall portion of its 2025-26 season by setting a trio of program records at the 2025 Diamante Intercollegiate, starting with the lowest round in program history at -6 (282) in the event’s opening round … Up next was the record for lowest score through 36 holes in an event at -2 (574) … Ball State finished the trifecta with the lowest 54-hole score in program history at -2 (862) … It was the first time in program history the Cardinals have finished a 54-hole tournament under par, with the previous best being +1 (865) set at the 2023 Diamante Intercollegiate.
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\n– Over the first seven tournament of the 2025-26 season, the Ball State women’s golf team owns a 298.57 stroke average which is on pace to shatter the current program record of 301.66 shot by the Cardinals over the course of the 2024-25 season … The team’s lowest round of the year is a program-record score of -6 (282) set in the opening round of the Diamante Intercollegiate (Oct. 19) … So far this season, 15 of BSU’s 21 rounds have been played under last season’s record-setting stroke average.
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\n–\u00a0Sarah Gallagher<\/a>\u00a0collected her first collegiate tournament victory thanks to a 22-foot birdie putt on the fourth playoff hole to earn individual medalist honors at the Brittany Kelly Classic (Sept. 15-16) \u2026 She opened the 54-hole event with the lowest round of her collegiate career, shooting a -3 (69) \u2026 She followed with an E (72) in the second round, before forcing a playoff with birdies on two of her final five holes and shooting +5 (77) in a tough final round for the field \u2026 Overall, she tied for the tournament lead on the par-5s with a -5 (4.44) average, while ranking third on the par-4s at +4 (4.11) \u2026 She also tied for the tournament lead with 11 birdies and was tied for 16th among the 50-golfer field with 32 pars.
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\n– As a team, the Cardinals won the Brittany Kelly Classic for the third straight season and the seventh time in program history \u2026 It was also the fourth event win under fourth-year head coach\u00a0Cameron Andry<\/a>\u00a0\u2026 Andry’s other win came at the 2024 Lady Jaguar Invitational (April 13-14).
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\n– The number keeps getting lower for senior\u00a0Jasmine Driscoll<\/a>\u00a0who is on pace to finish her career with the lowest stroke average in program history \u2026 Over 116 career rounds, she currently owns a 76.02 average which tops current record holder Kiah Parrott’s (2020-24) average of 76.06 \u2026 Driscoll’s mark includes 20 rounds at-or-below par and two tournament wins, including the 2025 Mid-American Conference Championships (April 20-22).
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\n–\u00a0\u00a0Driscoll is not the only active Ball State player aiming for the stroke record, as senior\u00a0Sarah Gallagher<\/a>\u00a0is not far behind with her 76.04 career stroke average currently also ahead of Kiah Parrott’s (2020-24) mark \u2026 Gallagher has played 113 career rounds, with 14 coming in at-or-below par \u2026 Junior\u00a0JJ Gregston<\/a>\u00a0has moved up to fifth with a 76.79 career average, including a 75.33 mark this season \u2026 Also in the top 10 among BSU’s active players who have reached the minimum of 48 career rounds is senior Sabrina Langerak<\/a> in 10th at 77.57, just passing classmate\u00a0Madelin Boyd<\/a>\u00a0in 11th at 77.66.
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\nBall State’s Current Top 10 Scoring Average List (Minimum 48 rounds):
\n1. Jasmine Driscoll<\/a>, 2022-Current, 116 rounds, 8818 strokes, 76.02 average
\n2.\u00a0\u00a0Sarah Gallagher<\/a>, 2022-Current, 113 rounds, 8593 strokes, 76.04 average
\n3. Kiah Parrott, 2020-24, 64 rounds, 4868 strokes, 76.06 average
\n4. Brittany Kelly, 2007-11, 125 rounds, 9557 strokes, 76.46 average
\n5. JJ Gregston<\/a>, 2023-Current, 77 rounds, 5913 strokes, 76.79 average
\n6. Manon Tounalom, 2016-20, 118 rounds, 9074 strokes, 76.90 average
\n7. Jenna Hague, 2011-15, 116 rounds, 8958 strokes, 77.22 average
\n8. Allison Lindley, 2014-17, 92 rounds, 7116 strokes, 77.35 average
\n9. Liz Kim, 2017-22, 131 rounds, 10135 strokes, 77.37 average
\n10. Sabrina Langerak<\/a>, 2023-Current, 60 rounds, 4654 strokes, 77.57 average
\n11. Madelin Boyd<\/a>, 2022-Current, 91 rounds, 7067 strokes, 77.66 average
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\n– Sophomore\u00a0Sophie Korthuijs<\/a>\u00a0is also on pace to break into the top 10, with her career average of 75.37 over 41 rounds currently ahead\u00a0Jasmine Driscoll’s<\/a>\u00a0mark \u2026 Last season, Korthuijs turned in the 11th-best single-season scoring average in program history at 76.05 and has started the 2025-26 campaign with a team-low 74.71 average … Her effort so far this season includes six rounds at or below par, already four more than she had during the 2024-25 campaign.
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\n– The team turned in a solid start at the Boilermaker Classic (Sept. 1-2) shooting its three lowest rounds ever on the Kampen-Cosler Course at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex in West Lafayette, Indiana \u2026 Ball State started the season with a rounds of +11 (299), +8 (296) and +5 (293) to finish sixth among a highly talented field \u2026 The effort helped the Cardinals top a pair of NCAA Regional teams from a year ago in Western Kentucky (+40; 904) and Georgia Southern (+42; 906).<\/p>\n

– Ball State also picked up a head-to-head win over a current power conference program for the second straight season at the Boilermaker Classic (Sept. 1-2), topping Iowa (+29; 893) \u2026 Prior to last season’s head-to-head win over Wisconsin at the Therese\u00a0Hession\u00a0Buckeye Invitational (April 12-13, 2025), Ball State had not topped a power conference school since the 2013-14 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HERMITAGE, Tenn. – – The stretch run to the 2026 Mid-American Conference Championships begins Monday for the Ball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-555474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}