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Buffs Look To Build On Ram Classic Success
September 21, 2025 | Women's Golf
BOULDER – There's no place like – close to - home.
Colorado women's golf continues its fall season this week at the Colonel Wollenberg Ram Classic at the Ptarmigan Golf Course just outside of Fort Collins. The 54-hole event hosted annually by Colorado State begins on Monday, Sept. 22, with the first two rounds followed by the final round on Tuesday, Sept. 23.
While Ptarmigan isn't exactly in the Buffaloes' backyard, the team has had quite a bit of success there over the years.
Colorado has won this event twice, in 2006 and 2010, and placed second six times, including in 2023, where the Buffaloes recorded their second-best round scores for 18 holes (275), 36 (554) and 54 (836) in team history.
"We were talking about this as a team, that it's fun where there's about six holes out here, especially the par 5s that are very scorable, and so you need to take advantage of those in order to be successful," Colorado head coach Madeleine Sheils said. "But at the same time, there's also about six holes that you need to be paying close attention to, where you're not hitting driver off the tee, and there are a couple of tricky greens. As it does every week, it involves coming up with a solid process and then continuing to commit to it throughout all three rounds. But I certainly think that a key to scoring well out here is taking advantage of those par 5s and being good with your wedges throughout the whole course, because it does play on the shorter side for us."
Colorado is also hoping to take lessons learned from the season-opening Leadership & Golf Invitational held last week at Chambers Bay, south of Seattle. The Buffaloes played well in spots, eventually tying for ninth out of 16 teams at 34-over-par, but not to the level they are collectively expecting. With the first grueling 36-hole marathon of the season under its belt, Colorado brought that experience into a solid week of practice.
"Each person had something different they knew they needed to work on to get ready for this week," Sheils said. "There was a lot of individual emphasis on the different parts of their game. Having that experience of that 36-hole day under their belt will serve us well, and the walk this week will certainly feel easy compared to Chambers Bay, which is nice, but we know that we need to do a better job of maintaining focus for all 36 holes. We talked about having a mental reset in the middle of the day, like the last three of the first 18 and the first three holes of the second, just to make sure we're staying present all the way through the last shot of each round."
Another advantage this week is that all seven golfers on Colorado's roster will compete at the Ram Classic, five contributing to the team effort, along with two individuals. The Ram Classic is the first of two-straight events in the Rocky Mountain Region, followed by Denver's Ron Moore Intercollegiate, Oct. 3-5, in Highlands Ranch.
"During the fall season we play five events in seven weeks, and so not having to get on a plane and travel and change time zones for two of those is so nice for the team," Sheils said. "It's also nice to be able to give ourselves a little bit of break when it comes to doing math on the altitude conversion for how far the ball flies. So we feel really confident with our numbers going into these two weeks, which sets us at ease. Another huge plus is that CSU allows us to take all seven players here, so every single player is getting tournament experience, which we really like to see, and we'll be able to have six next week at DU so it's really helpful for the team academically and energy-wise, and to get everybody competitive experience."
Freshman Teemapat Pateetin was Colorado's top golfer at last week's Leadership and Golf Invitational, tying for 20th at 6-over, 222. She will be the Buffaloes' top-seeded golfer at the Ram Classic joined for the team rounds by Maya McVey, Carolyn Fuller, Brenna Higgins and Vanessa Ngo, who is making her season debut.
Sophomore Ellen O'Shaughnessy and freshman Ananthi Vivek, set for her first collegiate tournament, will compete as individuals.
This year's Ram Classic will feature 13 teams, including Big 12 Conference rival BYU and former league foes in Washington and Nebraska. Both days feature a shotgun start beginning at 8:30 a.m. MT. For Monday's first two rounds, Colorado's team contingent will pair with Colorado State and Cal Poly between the first and third tees. The tournament is open to the public and the Buffaloes encourage fans in the region to come out and support the team!
Colorado women's golf continues its fall season this week at the Colonel Wollenberg Ram Classic at the Ptarmigan Golf Course just outside of Fort Collins. The 54-hole event hosted annually by Colorado State begins on Monday, Sept. 22, with the first two rounds followed by the final round on Tuesday, Sept. 23.
While Ptarmigan isn't exactly in the Buffaloes' backyard, the team has had quite a bit of success there over the years.
Colorado has won this event twice, in 2006 and 2010, and placed second six times, including in 2023, where the Buffaloes recorded their second-best round scores for 18 holes (275), 36 (554) and 54 (836) in team history.
"We were talking about this as a team, that it's fun where there's about six holes out here, especially the par 5s that are very scorable, and so you need to take advantage of those in order to be successful," Colorado head coach Madeleine Sheils said. "But at the same time, there's also about six holes that you need to be paying close attention to, where you're not hitting driver off the tee, and there are a couple of tricky greens. As it does every week, it involves coming up with a solid process and then continuing to commit to it throughout all three rounds. But I certainly think that a key to scoring well out here is taking advantage of those par 5s and being good with your wedges throughout the whole course, because it does play on the shorter side for us."
Colorado is also hoping to take lessons learned from the season-opening Leadership & Golf Invitational held last week at Chambers Bay, south of Seattle. The Buffaloes played well in spots, eventually tying for ninth out of 16 teams at 34-over-par, but not to the level they are collectively expecting. With the first grueling 36-hole marathon of the season under its belt, Colorado brought that experience into a solid week of practice.
"Each person had something different they knew they needed to work on to get ready for this week," Sheils said. "There was a lot of individual emphasis on the different parts of their game. Having that experience of that 36-hole day under their belt will serve us well, and the walk this week will certainly feel easy compared to Chambers Bay, which is nice, but we know that we need to do a better job of maintaining focus for all 36 holes. We talked about having a mental reset in the middle of the day, like the last three of the first 18 and the first three holes of the second, just to make sure we're staying present all the way through the last shot of each round."
Another advantage this week is that all seven golfers on Colorado's roster will compete at the Ram Classic, five contributing to the team effort, along with two individuals. The Ram Classic is the first of two-straight events in the Rocky Mountain Region, followed by Denver's Ron Moore Intercollegiate, Oct. 3-5, in Highlands Ranch.
"During the fall season we play five events in seven weeks, and so not having to get on a plane and travel and change time zones for two of those is so nice for the team," Sheils said. "It's also nice to be able to give ourselves a little bit of break when it comes to doing math on the altitude conversion for how far the ball flies. So we feel really confident with our numbers going into these two weeks, which sets us at ease. Another huge plus is that CSU allows us to take all seven players here, so every single player is getting tournament experience, which we really like to see, and we'll be able to have six next week at DU so it's really helpful for the team academically and energy-wise, and to get everybody competitive experience."
Freshman Teemapat Pateetin was Colorado's top golfer at last week's Leadership and Golf Invitational, tying for 20th at 6-over, 222. She will be the Buffaloes' top-seeded golfer at the Ram Classic joined for the team rounds by Maya McVey, Carolyn Fuller, Brenna Higgins and Vanessa Ngo, who is making her season debut.
Sophomore Ellen O'Shaughnessy and freshman Ananthi Vivek, set for her first collegiate tournament, will compete as individuals.
This year's Ram Classic will feature 13 teams, including Big 12 Conference rival BYU and former league foes in Washington and Nebraska. Both days feature a shotgun start beginning at 8:30 a.m. MT. For Monday's first two rounds, Colorado's team contingent will pair with Colorado State and Cal Poly between the first and third tees. The tournament is open to the public and the Buffaloes encourage fans in the region to come out and support the team!
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