WGOLF: Huskies Head to Austin for Betsy Rawls Texas Invitational

AUSTIN, TX. — The Houston Christian ladies’s golf crew returns to motion on Monday and Tuesday on the Betsy Rawls Texas Invitational, hosted by Texas at The University of Texas Golf Club. The two-day match includes a deep 16-team area, with 36 holes scheduled for Monday, Mar. 16, adopted by the ultimate 18 holes on Tuesday, Mar. 17.

The Huskies will ship a five-player lineup of Alejandra Ferrer, Alyssa Stewart, Hailey HendersonNatcha Makmanee and Sara Pihlajamaki into competitors. HCU enters the occasion coming off a robust efficiency on the Riverbend Intercollegiate, the place the Huskies completed second in a 16-team area on their house course with a three-round whole of 886 (+22). HCU completed behind solely Louisville and held off Tarleton State and Austin Peay to safe the runner-up end.

HCU has put collectively a strong 2025-26 marketing campaign getting into the week. The Huskies opened the season with a fourth-place end at The Lady Clerico earlier than inserting second on the Red Raider Invitational and tying for fifth on the Golf Iconic Classic. After the autumn slate, HCU got here again within the spring with a third-place end on the Texas State Invitational and adopted that with a crew title on the Islanders Collegiate Invitational. The Huskies most lately added a second-place exhibiting at Riverbend, persevering with a robust stretch of play heading into Austin.

Several Huskies deliver regular particular person type into the match. Natcha Makmanee owns the crew’s lowest scoring common at 73.6 and has recorded seven par-or-better rounds this season, together with top-five finishes on the Red Raider Invitational, Golf Iconic Classic and Islanders Collegiate Invitational. Alejandra Ferrer has additionally been one in all HCU’s prime performers, averaging 74.0 strokes per spherical and posting the crew’s lowest 54-hole match rating of the season with a 212 (-4) on the Texas State Invitational, the place she completed fourth general. Ferrer additionally owns the Huskies’ lowest particular person spherical of the yr with a 67 within the second spherical of that occasion.

Alyssa Stewart enters the week with a 74.6 scoring common over 20 rounds and has produced one top-five, one top-10 and one top-20 end this season. She positioned second on the Islanders Collegiate Invitational and turned in her greatest single spherical of the spring with a 68 at Riverbend. Sara Pihlajamaki has been one other dependable presence within the lineup, averaging 75.0 throughout 20 rounds whereas recording a top-10 end at Riverbend as a person. Hailey Henderson rounds out the group with a 76.0 stroke common and has proven his capacity to go low, together with a 69 within the second spherical of the Texas State Invitational earlier this spring.

As a crew, the Huskies have continued to present they will produce low rounds. HCU’s greatest spherical of the season got here on the Texas State Invitational, the place the crew fired to 281 in spherical two. The Huskies additionally posted rounds of 285 and 286 through the fall and have recorded 23 par-or-better rounds as a part of their four-player crew scoring this season.

The area in Austin consists of host Texas, together with Arkansas, LSU, Oklahoma, Pepperdine, TCU, Oregon State, Troy, UTSA, Boise State, BYU, Harvard, Chattanooga, Sam Houston, UIW and HCU. Several nationally-ranked packages are scheduled to compete, making this one of many hardest occasions on HCU’s spring schedule.

The Huskies are set to start first-round play Monday morning at 8:30 am HCU gamers will tee off on holes 13 by 16 alongside rivals from Sam Houston, UIW and Troy. Alyssa Stewart opens on gap 13, Natcha Makmanee on 14B, Alejandra Ferrer on 14A, Hailey Henderson on 15 and Sara Pihlajamaki on 16.