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<\/p>\nPALO ALTO, Calif. \u2014 Andrea Revuelta\u2019s keys and eyeglasses spill onto the marble table as she sits down to join her teammate. It\u2019s the last day of finals week here at Stanford, and when Revuelta explains she is hours away from her economics exam, a cloud of stress momentarily lingers in the air.<\/p>\n
Teammate Meja \u00d6rtengren, seated to her left, allows a sliver of a smile to emerge on her face while all of this is happening. And it\u2019s not hard to figure out why. \u00d6rtengren finished her exams yesterday. Sweet, sweet relief.<\/p>\n
The two sophomores are days away from their spring break, but the time off will look different for them and for the majority of the rest of Stanford women\u2019s golf. Revuelta, who hails from Madrid, and \u00d6rtengren, who grew up in Sweden, are two of the five women on the roster who are playing in the seventh annual Augusta National Women\u2019s Amateur, which begins Wednesday with the final round on Saturday. It\u2019s time for them to turn their attention to a grander stage, one that they physically can\u2019t stop thinking about every spring.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe talk about post-ANWA depression,\u201d Revuelta says. \u201cIt should be diagnosed. I personally wore green for two weeks straight (after last year). I was like, I can\u2019t move on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Revuelta, \u00d6rtengren, senior Megha Ganne, senior Kelly Xu, and junior Paula Mart\u00edn Sampedro are all ANWA invitees. Actually, the staggering number of Cardinals in the field is six if you count an incoming freshman, Nikki Oh. And it\u2019s eight if you stretch all the way to phenoms Asterisk Talley and Anna Fang, both of whom verbally committed to Stanford as juniors in high school.<\/p>\n
The ANWA, created by Augusta National Golf Club in 2019, offers players a chance to compete against the best in the world on a heightened platform, just days before the Masters begins. The tournament begins at Champions Retreat, and the players who make the cut (top 30s and ties) move on to play a final round at Augusta National. It is the crown jewel of women\u2019s amateur golf, and one of the biggest events of the year on the women\u2019s golf calendar.<\/p>\n
And this year, the current and future Stanford women make up 11 percent of that 72-woman field. That\u2019s the No. 1 program in the country, for you. They\u2019re also used to it: Ganne is making her sixth start in the tournament, \u00d6rtengren is making her fifth, and the rest of the women are playing for the third time.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re wondering how this is all possible, all you have to do is look at the scores of the weekly qualifying rounds the Stanford women play to determine their weekly lineup. They play inter-team individual competitions, a standard practice for collegiate golf programs, on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The bar is always getting higher.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I don\u2019t shoot under 3-under, it\u2019s not going to be top-5. And if you\u2019re shooting 4-under, you know someone\u2019s out there shooting 6-under. Because out of the nine players, at least one is doing it,\u201d Revuelta says.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith this team, it\u2019s kind of insane,\u201d \u00d6rtengren says.<\/p>\n
Women’s Amateur Golf Ranking<\/p>\n
RankingPlayerCollege<\/p>\n
1<\/p>\n
Kiara Romero<\/p>\n
2<\/p>\n
Paula Martin Sampedro<\/p>\n
3<\/p>\n
Andrea Revuelta<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
Farah O’Keefe<\/p>\n
5<\/p>\n
Meja Ortengren<\/p>\n
6<\/p>\n
Megha Ganne<\/p>\n
7<\/p>\n
Maria Jose Marin<\/p>\n
8<\/p>\n
Eila Galitsky<\/p>\n
9<\/p>\n
Soomin Oh<\/p>\n
10<\/p>\n
Asterisk Talley*<\/p>\n
(Source: World Amateur Golf Ranking. Asterisk notes high school recruit.)<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the kind of daily push that starts to feel normal when you become a member of this program. Stanford\u2019s practice facility, the Siebel Varsity Golf Training Complex, is the hub of it all. There\u2019s always a player there, doing drills or lifting weights, so the others know they\u2019ll never have to hone their craft alone. Team members even pile into a conference room in the building to do their homework together. Stanford professors do not go easy on the golfers. Revuelta had to take a midterm after completing a 10-hour, 36-hole tournament day this winter. There\u2019s a constant assumption that if you\u2019re not studying or practicing, someone else is \u2014 getting better, and potentially getting ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing at Stanford in itself is hard,\u201d says Revuelta. \u201cBeing on Stanford women\u2019s golf is adding another gear to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anne Walker has been at the helm of this dynasty since 2012. The head coach led the Cardinal to three NCAA titles and saw Rose Zhang win the ANWA in her final semester as a collegiate player. Through it all, she successfully established Stanford as the premier destination for the most driven and talented female players in the game. Walker runs a tight ship, but she\u2019s fostered an environment in which her players naturally drive each other. Once you get to Palo Alto, the work has only just begun.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe respect level is so high,\u201d Walker says. \u201cThey never feel that they\u2019re getting beat by someone that\u2019s not world-class. If they get beat by that person, it\u2019s an earned win.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perhaps that is why this current class of Stanford women can\u2019t seem to stop winning. Ganne won the U.S. Amateur at Bandon Dunes in August. Mart\u00edn Sampedro became the first player since 2006 to win both the Women\u2019s Amateur Championship and the European Ladies Amateur Championship in the same season. And \u00d6rtengren won a professional Ladies European Tour event.<\/p>\n
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\n Paula Mart\u00edn Sampedro is looking to add the ANWA title to her collection of amateur championships. (Maddie Meyer \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Xu is somehow the lowest-ranked player of the group at No. 20 in the world \u2014 the others are all in the top 6. Revuelta is coming off a four-shot win in a February college event and tied for fourth place at the ANWA last year. The group chat is firing at all hours of the day, with the women celebrating each other\u2019s accomplishments, despite the sport being an inherently individual race to the top.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think this environment of being pushed so hard together, with a tough academic setting, and a team that wants to do so well really brings us closer together,\u201d says \u00d6rtengren.<\/p>\n
The women are constantly picking each other\u2019s brains on the game or simply learning by example. \u00d6rtengren and Revuelta point to Ganne, one of the team\u2019s unequivocal leaders, as the sort of player who exudes positivity and never lets you know she\u2019s struggling with something. Whereas they admire Xu for her methodical approach to the game, and poke fun at her for playing \u201cgeometry golf.\u201d<\/p>\n
The women bond over their differences and their similarities \u2014 Revuelta and Mart\u00edn Sampedro, both from Madrid, grew up playing together on Spain\u2019s national team and know each other\u2019s games inside and out. The team recently had a long conversation in which they analyzed each player\u2019s \u201ctournament aura.\u201d There are tri-weekly team breakfasts in between those intense qualifying rounds, where all of these discussions about the sport and the team occur. The end result is a cohesive but constantly driven group of golfers, unsurprisingly taking over the women\u2019s amateur game.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s pretty special, and I know that they all realize how rare it is and how unique the moment is,\u201d says Walker. \u201cThey all do their very best to soak it up every minute. So that as a coach makes me stoked.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALO ALTO, Calif. \u2014 Andrea Revuelta\u2019s keys and eyeglasses spill onto the marble table as she sits down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[2662,427,99,3677],"class_list":{"0":"post-558673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-college-sports","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-stanford-cardinal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}