2025-26 Women's Golf Roster
Biography
2025-26: All-WCC Preseason Team Selection ... Finished 26th (+4) at ANNIKA Intercollegiate to begin fall season ... Recorded a top-10 finish at the Golfweek Red Sky Classic at seven under par for the tournament ... Placed 35th at the Stanford Intercollegiate ... Was 32nd at the Therese Hession Regional Challenge at +7 ... Posted an 11th-place finish at even par for the tournament at the Bruin Wave Invitational ... Earned second place at the Fresno State Classic (-3) while helping the Waves to the team victory.
2024-25: Named All-WCC Selection ... WCC All-Academic Team ... Recorded a scoring average of 72.55 in 33 rounds ... Finished 15th at the Dirk McGuire Invitational with a four-over 220 (77-71-72) ... Finished sixth at the Golfweek Red Sky Classic, finishing six under par (68-69-73) ... Shot a 218 over three rounds at the Illini Invitational ... Placed 36th at the Stanford Intercollegiate at five over par (77-70-71) ... Opened the fall season with a ten over par mark at the Therese Hession Challenge (73-76-74) ... Came in 21st at the Alice & John Wallace Classic (72-73-72) with a four-over 217 for the tournament ... Posted a top-ten finish at the Bruin Wave Invitational, finishing ninth with a five-over 221 (78-75-68) ... Sixth-place finish at the Silicon Valley Showcase (73-68-70) with a two-under mark for the tournament ... Finished 12th at the PING/ASU Invitational (70-75-70) at one under par (215) ... Posted a third-place finish at the WCC Championships (69-74-70) at three under par ... Shot ten over at the NCAA Lexington Regionals (76-73-77) for a 46th-place finish.
2023-24: Awarded Golfweek and WGCA All-American honorable mention honors … Earned WCC Player of the Year … Garnered All-WCC first team acclaim … The WCC Golfer of the Month in March … Appeared in 10 events and 30 rounds with a scoring average of 72.47 … Took first at the Silicon Valley Showcase shooting seven-under 206 (68-68-70) … Tied for second at The Show with four-under 212 (70-68-74) … Finished fourth at the WCC Championships (73-72-75=220) … Also tied for seventh at Mercedes-Benz with two under 211 (69-70-72) … Ranked #41 in final Scoreboard by Clipp’d national and #65 World Amateur Golf ranking by USGA … Earned WCC Commissioner’s Honor Roll ‘bronze’ honors … A Pepperdine Scholar-Athlete.
2022-23: Awarded All-WCC first team honors as a freshman … Garnered WGCA All-American honorable mention honors … Ranked #33 by Golfweek/Sagarin, #48 by Golfstat and #53 by WAGR … Earned a spot on the WGCA Freshman of the Year watch list … Averaged 72.72 in 22 rounds, which is the best single-season average by any freshman in program history by a full stroke … Had four top-10 finishes and six top-20 finishes … Tied for third at the Juli Inkster at Meadow Club Invitational (70-73-72) ... Took fourth at The Show at Spanish Trail with 5-under 211 and sixth at the Silicon Valley Showcase (74-72-72=218) … Qualified for match play at Royals and Ancient’s Women’s Amateur … Invited to Augusta National Women’s Amateur … Earned WCC Commissioner’s Honor Roll ‘bronze’ honors … A Pepperdine Scholar-Athlete.
AMATEUR/ JUNIOR GOLF: Won the Women’s Australian Master of the Amateurs, Portsea and Port Phillip Open Amateurs and Sukan (Sukma) Malaysia in 2022 … Earned Metropolitan Women’s Club Championships five times from 2018-22 and repeated as the Riversdale Cup Champion in 2020 and 2021 and Joan Fisher Plate and Victoria Champion of Champions in 2019 and 2020 … Finished third in the Southeast Asian Games and 18th in the Women’s Amateur Asia Pacific in 2022 … Won the Australian Girls Amateur and Victorian Junior Masters in 2021 and 2022, while also taking home Adidas Golf Junior 6s Tour Rosebud and World Final titles in 2022 … Three-peated as champion of the Victoria Junior Amateur from 2020-22 and won the 2017 Kids Golf Championships in Malaysia.
HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Glen Waverley Secondary College in 2022 … Also attended St Catherine’s School for five years … Took part in tennis and swimming … Earned Rising Star Award for Golf 2017-20 … Won School Sport Australia Individual Title in 2017 and 2018 … Won School Sport Victoria State Golf Championship in 2021 and 2022 … Awarded Most Outstanding Sporting Excellence 2021-22.
PERSONAL: Majoring in psychology … Born in Malaysia, but currently from Melbourne, Australia … Daughter of Kenneth and Melanie Wong … Has a younger sister, Hannah Wong … Chose Pepperdine because of “its balance of high academic excellence, as well as its golf program led by Coach Gibbs. Also with the smaller community, it forms a family-like environment which really sparked my interest. I am excited to have the opportunity to play year-round in Malibu golf weather.”
FAVORITES: Enjoys playing tennis, and eating Asian food … Favorites include Rory McIlroy (pro golfer), Rafael Nadal (athlete), The Weeknd (musician), tennis (sport other than golf), Royal Portrush Golf Club (golf course), and Adam Sandler (actor).
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