Ashley Menne Invited Back to Augusta – Arizona State University Athletics

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Solar Satan Ladies’s Golf standout Ashley Menne has accepted an invite to return to the Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Novice.

The 2023 version will as soon as once more give feminine newbie golfers the chance to play the enduring Augusta Nationwide Golf Course. That is the second consecutive yr Menne has certified for this prestigious occasion, doing so primarily based on her standing in the US newbie rankings.

“Going again is a dream come true as soon as once more,” Menne mirrored. “I sit up for this occasion yearly and attending to play in it’s particular.”

Within the 2022 version, Menne was considered one of 30 golfers to make the preliminary minimize after two rounds and earn the chance to play Augusta Nationwide Golf Course for a 3rd spherical, which was broadcasted worldwide on NBC. 

“We’re so pleased with Ashley for receiving one other invite to ANWA,” Head Coach Missy Farr-Kaye remarked. “She is going to do an amazing job of representing Solar Satan Ladies’s Golf on a worldwide stage.”

IN THEIR OWN WORDS
“Augusta Nationwide is a tremendous place. I’m honored to return and excited to see how I do that yr.” – Ashley Menne

“Returning after having performed on this occasion final yr will assist as a result of I form of know what I get into. Having performed Augusta now, twice, I feel I’m going to be a bit of extra ready. Simply realizing what pictures to follow and what I must do to prep mentally and with my sport.” – Ashley Menne

“To have a Solar Satan at each model of the ANWA courting again to 2019 is a mirrored image of the power of this system. We take satisfaction in our capability to draw and develop the very best golfers within the World.” – Coach Farr-Kaye

SUN DEVIL HISTORY AT THE ANWA
Menne provides to a rising custom of Solar Devils to compete on the Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Novice. No less than one member of this system has been concerned in every year of the event courting again to 2019. Menne was considered one of three within the 2022 discipline, joined by present teammate Paula Schulz-Hanssen and Alexandra Forsterling. Schulz-Hanssen, one of many world’s high amateurs, competed in two ANWA’s earlier than arriving in Tempe. Menne is now considered one of 4 Solar Devils to be invited to 2 ANWAs.

Alums Olivia Mehaffey and Linn Grant had been every chosen to compete in the primary two editions of the occasion. In 2021, they made the minimize after two rounds to superior to Augusta Nationwide. Mehaffey (E/144) was tied for third, whereas Grant (+2/146) was not far behind in a tie for eighth. Mehaffey shot a championship-low 69 in spherical two to clinch her spot above the minimize line. Grant opened the occasion with a 70 to finish in a tie for first after the primary spherical. Within the 2019 model, Olivia Mehaffey put collectively a implausible first two rounds, making the minimize and finally ending tied for 23^rd. Linn Grant hadn’t but arrived on campus in Tempe but, however she nonetheless hung with a few of the high younger golfers. Grant improved her spherical by seven strokes from the primary to second day, giving Solar Satan followers a glimpse of her poise and toughness. 
 
Mehaffey and Grant had been joined by three different representatives of Solar Satan Ladies’s Golf within the inaugural Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Novice. Again in 2019, alums Sofia Anokhina and Alessandra Fanali participated together with present Solar Satan Amanda Linner. Fanali caught the eye of the golf world after firing a gap spherical 70, which put her within the Prime-5 after the primary day. Sofia Anokhina was considered one of two Solar Devils to make the minimize, carding a clutch second-round 70 to earn a spot at Augusta Nationwide.

2023 – Ashley Menne
2022 – Ashley Menne, Alexandra Forsterling, Paula Schulz-Hanssen
2021 – Olivia Mehaffey, Linn Grant, Paula Schulz-Hanssen
2019 – Olivia Mehaffey, Linn Grant, Alessandra Fanali, Amanda Linner, Sofia Anokhina

FORMAT
A world discipline of 72 girls amateurs will compete over 54 holes of stroke play. A minimize will happen after 36 holes, advancing the main 30 gamers and ties to the ultimate spherical at Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership. Within the occasion of a tie after 54 holes, the winner shall be determined by sudden-death playoff.

SCHEDULE
The primary 36 holes shall be contested over two days on the Island and Bluff nines at Champions Retreat Golf Membership in Augusta, Ga., March 29 and 30, 2023. Your entire discipline will then play Augusta Nationwide for an official follow spherical Friday, March 31. The ultimate spherical will happen at Augusta Nationwide on Saturday, April 1 and can function the rivals who made the minimize.

TV COVERAGE
New in 2023, the primary and second rounds of the Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Novice shall be broadcast stay on Golf Channel (1:30-3:30 p.m. ET) from Champions Retreat Golf Membership. NBC Sports activities will produce and broadcast three hours (Midday-3 p.m. ET) of stay final-round protection of the occasion at Augusta Nationwide. Moreover, Golf Channel’s “Reside From the Masters” will begin on Friday, April 1 at Augusta Nationwide to offer protection of the Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Novice, the Drive, Chip and Putt Nationwide Finals and the Masters Match.

PRIZE
Offered she stay an newbie, the 2023 Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Novice Champion will obtain an invite to the following 5 Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Amateurs, the 2023 U.S. Ladies’s Open, the 2023 Ladies’s Open, and any USGA, R&A and PGA of America newbie championships for which she is eligible for one yr.

ABOUT THE ANWA
The Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Novice was introduced on Wednesday, April 4, 2018, by Chairman Fred Ridley throughout his annual press convention on the Masters Match. The occasion was established to encourage better curiosity and participation within the girls’s sport by creating a brand new, thrilling and rewarding pathway for these gamers to satisfy their desires.

ASHLEY AT ASU
Junior Ashley Menne is placing collectively probably the most embellished begins to a profession within the historical past of the Solar Satan Ladies’s Golf program. She is already a two-time All-American, receiving the distinction after every of her first two seasons. 

Menne already has eight Prime-10 finishes halfway via her junior yr, together with a Co-Championship on the Match within the Desert this Spring. She completed tied for fourth on the Pac-12 Preview again in November, firing a gap spherical 66 (-7) to match her greatest profession rating vs. par. Through the semester break, Menne notched a Prime-10 end on the Patriot All-American Golf Match.

Throughout a standout sophomore marketing campaign, Menne was a Prime-10 finishers on 4 ocassions, together with two second place finishes. She earned Silver at each the Lamkin Inviational and the PING/ASU Invitational along with tying for fifth on the Match within the Desert and seventh on the Stillwater Regional. 

She put collectively top-of-the-line freshman seasons in program historical past, capping it with a fourth-place end (-3/285) on the NCAA Championships. It was the best end by a Solar Satan at NCAA’s since Monica Vaughn gained the Particular person Title again in 2017. Menne turned the twenty third particular person in this system since 1982 to complete within the Prime-5, a listing that features present Affiliate Head Coach Michelle Estill.  She carded a historic third spherical of the NCAA Championship, carding a 65 (-7) to assist ASU get into place to qualify for Match Play. The 65 matched Grace Park’s document for a Solar Satan at a NCAA Championship and was tied for the third-lowest spherical within the historical past of the Arizona State program. Menne gained her matchup 2&1 with Duke’s Jaravee Boonchant, the one Solar Satan to take action.

HOW TO FOLLOW
Tickets to the Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Novice are bought out following an internet ticket utility course of. No tickets shall be accessible on the gates. For extra info, please go to ANWAgolf.com and comply with the occasion’s official social media channels (@ANWAgolf) throughout Fb, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok.

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