STANFORD, Calif. — UC Davis will wrap up its 2026 fall schedule with its fourth and final tournament this Friday-Sunday, Oct. 16-18 at the Stanford Intercollegiate hosted by Dr. Condoleezza Rice at the Stanford Golf Course. The event is part of the PlayForHer initiative and will help raise funds for breast cancer research.
The 17 teams in the three-day, 54-hole tournament features six teams currently ranked in the nation's top 30 (No. 2 USC, No. 4 Virginia, No. 12 Stanford, No. 14 UCLA, No. 17 Iowa State, No. 28 Pepperdine). The remainder of the field includes Cal State Fullerton, California, Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Northwestern, Oregon State, San Jose State, Santa Clara, SMU and UC Davis.
The teams are scheduled to play 18 holes each day with a pair of wave starts on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 and 11:45 a.m, while Sunday features a shotgun start at 8:30 am.
Friday's tee times have been set with UC Davis playing along with California and Pepperdine. UC Davis' fifth player in the lineup Claire Chang will be the first Aggie off the first tee at 8:25 a.m. She will be followed in 11-minute increments by No. 4 Yu "Yoyo" Bai (8:36 a.m.), No. 3 Michelle Ho (8:47 a.m.), No. 2 Nina Choe (8:58 a.m.) and No. 1 Vani Karimanal (9:09 a.m.). Wendi Ma will also start on the first hole as an individual at 11:45 am. Tee times for second and third-round action will be based on Friday and Saturday results.
The top four scores in each round from each team's five-player lineup will count in the team score.
STANFORD INTERCOLLEGIATE HOSTED BY DR. CONDOLEEZZA RICE
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16-18, 2026
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- LINEUP: The top three players in the lineup for the Stanford Intercollegiate have occupied one of the top three spots for each of the previous three fall meets but Karimanal will play in the No. 1 spot for the first time this fall and Choe at No. 2 after playing in reverse order in each of the first three fall events. Ho will play in the No. 3 position for the fourth straight fall event, while Yu "Yoyo" Bai (No. 4) is back in the lineup and playing for the first time since being No. 5 for the first tournament of the fall at the Leadership and Golf Invitational. Claire Chang is in the lineup for the second straight tournament at No. 5 after playing in the No. 4 slot at the team's most recent event at the Marilynn Smith Sunflower Invitational hosted by Kansas. Wendi Ma will play for the second time total and the first time this fall as an individual. Ma was in the lineup in the No. 5 position at Kansas.
- 2026 FALL SCHEDULE/RESULTS: UC Davis is wrapping up its four-tournament 2026 fall schedule at the Stanford Intercollegiate. The Aggies tied for seventh in their fall opener at the Leadership and Golf Invitational co-hosted by Washington and Seattle followed by a tied for fourth-place finish at the Ben Connell Ram Classic hosted by Colorado State and a fourth-place showing at the Marilyn Smith Sunflower Invitational.
- RANKINGS: The first 2026-27 national rankings were released Oct. 14 and UC Davis checked in as a team at No. 82. The Aggies have a 27-12-1 record. Choe is the Aggies' top ranked individual at No. 206 followed by Karimanal (No. 233), Ho (No. 342), Gabriella Ilardi (No. 658) and Chang (No. 818).
- TOP INDIVIDUAL FINISHES: The Aggies have five top 10 and eight top 20 individual finishes to this point in 2026-27 all between Choe, Karimanal and Ho. Choe has been in the top 10 in each of the Aggies' events, tying for fifth at the Leadership and Golf Invitational, as well as eighth at the Marilynn Smith Sunflower Invitational and tied for 10th at the Ben Connell Ram Classic. Karimanal has twice been a top-10 finisher in each of her last two tournaments at the Connell (T5th) and Smith (7th), while Ho has a tied for 10th-place showing in her most recent tournament at the Smith, as well as tied for 12th and tied for 17th place finishes at the Connell and Leadership, respectively.
- BEST ADJUSTED SCORING AVERAGES: Choe has the Aggies best adjusted scoring average at 71.52, followed by Karimanal (71.85) and Ho (72.63)
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