St. Andrews Collegiate: Northwestern men, Arizona women win medal match play
Daniel Svard (Northwestern Athletics Photo)
The Northwestern men and Arizona women took the first-place medals home from the 2024 St. Andrews Links Collegiate at the Old Course in Scotland.
In both match play finals, it was a showdown of Wildcats, with the Northwestern men defeating the Arizona men 4.5-1.5 and the Arizona women defeating the Northwestern women 4.5-1.5.
For Northwestern, Cameron Adam, Daniel Svard, Niall Shiels-Donegan, and Akshay Anand earned four solo points. For Arizona, Charlotte Back, Lilas Pinthier, and Nena Wongthanavimok earned three solo points.
Archie Finnie earned a half point for Northwestern, and Caroline Melgrati, Julie Misemer, and Maria Cabanillas earned half points for Arizona. Both stroke play champions, Zach Pollo of Arizona and Ashley Yun of Northwestern, lost their respective matches.
FINAL RESULTS
Men
Archie Finnie vs. Johnny Walker, all square
Griffin Rhoads def. Ethan Tseng
Akshay Anand def. Matej Baca
Niall Shiels-Donegan def. Zach Pollo
Daniel Svärd def. Tiger Christensen
Cameron Adam def. Filip Jakubcik
Women
Charlotte Back def. Ashley Yun
Lilias Pinthier def. Hsin Tai Lin
Nena Wongthanavimok def. Dianna Lee
Caroline Melgrati vs. Jiayi Wang, all square
Maria Cabanillas vs. Elise Lee, all square
Julie Misemer vs. Lauryn Nguyen, all square
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ABOUT THE
Started in 2023, this three-day event will feature men’s
and women’s golf teams from four U.S. universities
with two days of stroke play on the Jubilee Course
followed by a day of medal match play on the Old
Course at St. Andrews.
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