IRVING — Texas golfer Madison Pressel qualified Tuesday to join her older sister, LPGA Tour standout Morgan Pressel, in the field for the North Texas LPGA Shootout, April 25-28 at Las Colinas Country Club.
Pressel fired an even-par 71 at the Las Colinas layout to join North Carolina’s Casey Grice, a College Station native, as co-medalists at the North Texas Collegiate Shootout. They claimed the two spots reserved for college participants in the $1.3 million LPGA event in Irving.Texas A&M golfer Chelsea Mocio, a Fort Worth Arlington Heights graduate, posted a 73 and is one of two alternates for the college exemptions. As alternates, Mocio and A&M teammate Katerina Ruzickova (74) earned spots in an April 22 qualifier at Las Colinas with touring pros to try and earn a last-minute spot in the field.Pressel, a senior, said it will be “incredible” to make her LPGA debut in the same event as her sister, a two-time tour winner and past major champion (2007 Kraft Nabisco Championship) who already has committed to compete in Irving.“It’s very exciting,” Madison Pressel said. “I’ve never been able to play with her in a tournament setting. It’ll be weird preparing for a tournament on the same golf course with her.”Grice, a junior who played at A&M Consolidated High School, said she is “definitely very excited” for the opportunity to make her LPGA debut in her home state.Mocio said she made “a couple of mental mistakes” during back-nine holes in Tuesday’s round that prevented her from joining the co-medalists at the top of the leader board, but she said she’s excited to have a second chance to try and play her way into the field at the April 22 qualifier in Irving. Shootout resultsA look at Tuesday’s scores from the 18 participants in the North Texas Collegiate LPGA Shoot-out in Irving:Casey Grice, North Carolina, 71Madison Pressel, Texas, 71Chelsea Mocio, Texas A&M, 73Katerina Ruzickova, Texas A&M, 74Mary Michael Maggio, Texas A&M, 76Kelsey Vines, Oklahoma State, 76Alexandria Bonetti, TCU, 77April McCoy, TCU, 78Flower Castillo, Incarnate Word, 78Hally Leadbetter, Arkansas, 79Natalie Reeves, Texas A&M, 79Jennifer Park, SMU, 80Jenny Haglund, SMU, 81Sanna Nuutinen, TCU, 82Melanie White, SMU, 82Sarah Beth Davis, Texas A&M, 83Alexandra Ann Rossi, Texas A&M, 83Taylor Slagle, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, 84Jimmy Burch, 817-390-7760 Twitter: @Jimmy_Burch
