OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City University completes its regular-season slate in the Susie Maxwell Berning Classic on Monday and Tuesday at Lincoln Park Golf Course.
The tournament features the Stars, ranked fourth in NAIA women's golf, and 23rd-ranked Texas Wesleyan. The event tees off in a shotgun start 8:30 a.m. Monday on the par-71, 5,833-yard West Course.
Oklahoma City took its fifth victory of the season March 27-28 in the Kyle Blaser Invitational at Gaillardia Country Club by a 47-shot margin over Oklahoma Christian, ranked 20th in NCAA Division II. The Stars own the third spot in the Women's Golf Coaches Association ratings.
Maddi Kamas of the Stars collected her fifth career win in the Blaser Invitational in Oklahoma City. Kamas, a sophomore business administration major from Kingfisher, Okla., clinched the win by sinking a 25-foot birdie putt on the 15th hole. Kamas notched five of her tournament-high 13 birdies in the final round. Kamas posted the only under-par three-round score of the tournament with a 1-under-par 72-74-71–217. Kamas became Sooner Athletic Conference player of the week for the seventh time in her career after the win. She has posted a 73.47 scoring average this season.
The Stars held the top four spots atop the individual leaderboard. Kamas finished five shots in front of teammates Natalie Gough and MaKayla Tyrrell and six strokes ahead of Logan Allen. Paige Wood came in seventh. Gough, a graduate student seeking a master's in business administration from Bixby, Okla., sank a hole-in-one on the fourth hole during the first round.
Susie Maxwell Berning entered the World Golf Hall of Fame alongside Tim Finchem, Marion Hollins and Tiger Woods on March 9, 2022 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Berning competed for the OCU men's golf team during the 1960s, becoming the first women's golfer in school history. Berning turned professional on the LPGA Tour in 1964 and collected 11 victories, including four in major events.
The Stars play at Lincoln Park Golf Course for the second time this season. Lincoln Park rates as one of Oklahoma's finest public golf courses. Oklahoma City's oldest public golf course unveiled its new state-of-the-art $9.25 million club house in spring 2015. The course was designed by Art Jackson and built in 1923. It features bent grass on the greens and Bermuda grass on the fairways.
The weather forecast includes a high temperature in the lower 70s with the temperature starting around 50 degrees in the mornings. Predicted winds would blow between 10-15 mph. There is a 25 percent chance of rain Monday.
OCU has taken eight national championships captured in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014 and 2017.
