MALIBU, California – The Pepperdine women's golf team next travels south to play in San Diego State's Lamkin Invitational, which begins Monday.
 
EVENT INFO – The Lamkin Invitational will be held at the par-72, 6,318-yard Farms Golf Club in Rancho Santa Fe, California. The tournament will be held Monday through Wednesday (March 25-27). The event's unique format has a single round of stroke play on Monday morning to determine seeding for match play. Match play rounds will be held Monday afternoon, Tuesday and Wednesday. Live scoring will be available through BirdieFire.
 
FIELD – In addition to Pepperdine, the 12-team tournament includes host San Diego State, Augusta, California, Central Arkansas, Portland State, Sacramento State, San Jose State, Texas Tech, UC Davis, UC Irvine and Vanderbilt.
 
PEPPERDINE LINEUP – The Waves' lineup consists of senior Hira Naveed (Perth, Australia), senior Patricia Wong (Walnut, Calif.), junior Momoka Kobori (Rangiora, New Zealand), freshman Kathrine Chan (Richmond, B.C., Canada), and senior Hannah Haythorne (Honolulu, Hawai'i).
 
RANKINGS – The Waves are #31 by Golfstat and #32 by Golfweek/Sagarin ... Hira Naveed is #10 by Golfstat and #13 by Golfweek/Sagarin ... Momoka Kobori is #133 by Golfweek/Sagarin and #138 by Golfstat.
 
EVENT HISTORY – This is the fifth time that the Waves have played in this event, which has also been known as SDSU March Mayhem and the Farms Invitational. Pepperdine came in third place in 2013 (when it was a stroke-play event) and again in 2017 (in match play). Hira Naveed and Patricia Wong have both gone 5-2 in match play at this event over the last two years.
 
ROSTER – Pepperdine has four veterans (three seniors and one junior) joined by two freshmen. Hira Naveed (2016, 2017, 2018), Momoka Kobori (2018) and Patricia Wong (2016) have all earned All-WCC honors in their careers, and the three were named to the preseason All-WCC team this year.
 
NAVEED – Hira Naveed is more than halfway through a senior year to remember. She's the first Wave ever to win two fall tournaments, capturing the season-opening Dick McGuire Invitational for her first career victory, and she was then co-medalist at the final fall tournament, the Stanford Intercollegiate. She will play in the 2019 Arnold Palmer Cup as a member of the international team. She's been named to the ANNIKA Award Watch List, and she was the WCC Player of the Month for both September and October. Naveed is averaging 71.61 strokes this season, and she ranks fifth all-time in scoring average (73.69) at Pepperdine. In February, she returned home briefly after receiving an exemption to play in the LPGA's Women's Australian Open.
 
MORE 2018-19 HIGHLIGHTS – The Waves began the season with three top-three team finishes for only the third time in program history, and for the first time since fall 2009.
 
PEPPERDINE GOLF – Under the direction of Laurie Gibbs, who is now in her 26th season as head coach, Pepperdine has earned a place as one of the nation's top golf programs. Gibbs has been honored 12 times as the WCC's Coach of the Year, was tabbed the West Region Coach of the Year on two occasions and was selected the 2004-05 National Coach of the Year by Golfweek magazine. Gibbs was inducted into the WGCA Coaches Hall of Fame in December 2015. Under her leadership, the Waves have appeared in the NCAA Championships 12 times in the last 20 years, and have recorded eight top-10 finishes and four top-five showings, including a program-best second-place result in 2003. The Waves have won West Coast Conference championships in 17 of the last 21 years, including a streak of 14 titles that ran from 2002 to 2015.
 
ONLINE — Follow the Pepperdine women's golf team on Twitter (@WavesGolf), Facebook (/WavesGolf) and Instagram (pepperdinewomensgolf).
 
ABOUT PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY – Pepperdine boasts a one-of-a-kind athletic department with unprecedented success for a school of its size. The Waves have won NCAA Division I championships in five different men's sports — one of just 18 schools to have accomplished this feat — and nine overall. Of this elite group, Pepperdine has the smallest undergraduate enrollment, is the only school without football and is the only university that has not been affiliated with a "major" conference. The Waves have won a total of 25 team or individual national championships in their history. Pepperdine has also earned the Division I-AAA All-Sports Trophy, an award based on postseason success that's given to the top non-football school, three times (most recently in 2011-12). Located in scenic Malibu, California, the university overlooks the Pacific Ocean and its campus and athletic facilities are regularly voted among the nation's most beautiful. Pepperdine, which is affiliated with the Church of Christ, ranks #46 overall on U.S. News and World Report's list of America's best colleges.