Maria Persson-Gulda

Height:
5-3
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Halmstad, Sweden
High School:
Kattegatt

2002-03 4.0 Club
2003-04 Academic All-Big 12 first team
2003-04 4.0 Club
2003-04 WGCA All-American Scholar
2003-04 team's Buffalo Leadership Award
2004-05 4.0 Club
2004-05 Academic All-Big 12 first team
2004-05 WGCA All-American Scholar
2005-06 4.0 Club
2005-06 Academic All-Big 12 first team
2005-06 WGCA All-American Scholar
2005-06 team's Scholar Athlete Award

2005-06: Persson-Gulda finished her career by leading the Buffs to a third-place finish at the Big 12 Championships, posting a career-best 76-.41 stroke average in 32 rounds over 11 tournaments. Her stroke average was second on the team and she had a team-high 27 rounds in the 70s. Persson-Gulda shot a season-best 71 in the second round of the Heather Farr Memorial, tying for seventh place in the tournament with a 73-71-79--223. She matched her season best round at the Big 12 Championships, tying for fifth place with a 78-71-76--225.

2004-05: As a junior she owned a career low 77.16 strokes per average which was the third lowest on the team. She has finished as CU’s low score in a pair of tournaments and had four top-20 finishes, including a career best fifth at Boise State’s Bronco Fall Invitational after carding a 54-hole low 218. All but one round scored toward the team total in which she has held six low team rounds this season, including three in the last four outings.

2003-04: Persson-Gulda christened her sophomore season with a career low 71 in the opening round of the Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic. Her season strokes per average, 77.3, was a season career low for the sophomore. She turned in six top-20 finishes and was CU’s low tournament score a team high six times, including a career-best fifth place at the Lady Aztec Fall Invitational where she carded a 54-hole career low 219. She closed out the season with a 25th place showing at the Big 12 Championships in College Station, Texas after firing a 73-81-154, a 27-place climb up the leaderboard from the same tournament as a freshman.

2002-03: One of the top-10 freshmen in the league with a 79.8 strokes per average, Persson Gulda was CU’s lowest-scoring frosh since Taya Battistella (78.69) during the 1998-99 season. The disappointment of failing to qualify for the season opening Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic proved to be her motivating factor for the rest of the year. She played with senior Erin Kerr round-for-round at the Las Vegas Founders Showdown, matching Kerr’s team low rounds during the first and second loops, then bettered the veteran by a stroke and eventually finished 32nd. She carded a career low 73 in the third, and final, round of the Oregon Duck Invitational. The round was a 10-stroke improvement from her first round 83 and catapulted her 13 positions to finish 21st, her second best collegiate finish. The only CU newcomer to play at the Big 12 Championships, she finished 52nd.

Other: Persson-Gulda’s home course, Halmstad Golf Club, was recognized as the nicest course in Sweden by the country’s two largest golf magazines. She was the junior club champion at Halmstad for four years and has even claimed senior’s competitions. Her ladies’ team competed in Sweden’s highest division for three years with Persson-Gulda on that team. She has been on the region’s main team (a team comprised of three girls and four boys players) that competes once a year in interregional competition in southern Sweden. Her 2001 team was the runner-up with a 2-under-par score. The Swedish National Golf Association’s system for juniors had Persson -Gulda playing for the Elite team (45 girls under 21-years-old) for three years and for three years on the defunct Teen Tour. From 1998-01 she played on Halmstad’s regional team playing in Vastergotland and Oland. In the year immediately prior to coming to CU, she won three tournaments with five other top-10 finishes including a third-place finish at the Haverdal Junior Open, a nationwide competition. During the summer of ?03 she won the biggest tournament in her hometown, the Halmstad’s Championship, and defended that title a year later.

Best Round In Competition: 71 in the first round of her sophomore year, the Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic in Fort Collins, Colo.

In The Classroom: Persson- Gulda is an engineering physics major at Colorado and currently owns one of the athletic department’s best grade point average, a 3.892 after four semesters. She had a pair of perfect 4.0 semesters as a freshman and two Dean’s List efforts as a sophomore. She was one of five student-athletes to receive the MacAllister Scholar Award, presented annually to those who have exhibited outstanding leadership skills at CU and in the community.

Personal: Maria Persson-Gulda was born May 29, 1983 in Helsingborg, Sweden. She is the daughter of Hans Persson and Britt-Marie Gulda. She has a younger sister, Charlotte, who is a sophomore on the CU women’s golf team. She enjoys skiing and hiking in her free time, and plays piano and guitar.

Career Tournaments

Date	Event (Par)	Score	Finish
Sept. 16-17, 2002	Oregon State Shanico Invite (72)	76-81-83—240	t-65th
Sept. 23-24, 2002	Highlands Ranch Women’s Invite (72)	77-78—155	t-19th
Oct. 7-8, 2002	HEATHER FARR/CU MEMORIAL (72)	77-78—155	t-24th
Nov. 1-3, 2002	Landfall Tradition Women’s (72)	81-80-81—242	t-49th
Nov. 11-13, 2002	Las Vegas Founders Showdown (72)	76-78-81—235	t-32nd
Feb. 24-26, 2003	Arizona Wildcat Invite (71)	81-83-87—251	t-87th
Mar. 10-11, 2003	Oregon Duck Invite (72)	78-83-73—234	t-21st
Mar. 22-23, 2003	MOUNTAIN VIEW COLLEGIATE (72)	75-79-81—235	t-35th
Apr. 7-8, 2003	Utah Dixie Classic (72)	78-79-80—237	t-36th
Apr. 21-23, 2003	Big 12 Championships (72)	84-86-79—249	52nd

Date	Event (Par)	Score	Finish
Sept. 8-9, 2003	Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic (72)	71-81-72—224	t-14th
Sept. 29-30, 2003	Ron Moore Women’s (72)	80-79—159	t-23rd
Oct. 6-7, 2003	HEATHER FARR/CU MEMORIAL (72)	76-73—149	t-11th
Oct. 20-21, 2003	Lady Aztec Fall Invite (72)	73-72-74—219	t-5th
Nov. 4-5, 2003	Kent Youel Invite (72)	76-72-78—226	t-11th
Nov. 10-12, 2003	Las Vegas Founders Showdown (72)	80-76-74—235	t-35th
Feb. 16-17, 2004	Bay Area Classic (72)	83-79—162	t-12th
Mar. 1-3, 2004	SJSU Spartan Invite (72)	81-83-83—247	t-75th
Mar. 15-16, 2004	UC Irvine Anteater Invite (72)	76-74-85—235	t-32nd
Mar. 27-28, 2004	MOUNTAIN VIEW COLLEGIATE (72)	73-78-74—225	t-12th
Apr. 5-8, 2004	BYU Dixie Classic (72)	80-87-77—244	t-43rd
Apr. 23-25, 2004	Big 12 Championships (72)	73-81—154	t-25th

Date	Event (Par)	Score	Finish
Sept. 13-14, 2004	Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic (72)	76-75-75—226	t-19th
Sept. 20-21, 2004	Ron Moore Women’s (72)	74-79-75—228	t-13th
Oct. 6-7, 2004	HEATHER FARR/CU MEMORIAL (72)	78-78—156	29th
Oct. 11-12, 2004	Bronco Fall Invite (72)	75-70-73—218	5th
Oct. 26-27, 2004	Kent Youel Invite (72)	77-75-77—229	t-35th
Feb. 21-22, 2005	Micosukee Championship (73)	80-75-82—237	t-32nd
Mar. 8-9, 2005	Spartan Invite (71)	83-72-76—231	t-45th
Mar. 15-16, 2005	Anteater Invite (72)	83-74-74—231	t-9th
Mar. 26-27, 2005	MOUNTAIN VIEW COLLEGIATE (72)	74-72-78—224	t-32nd
Apr. 5-6, 2005	BYU Dixie Classic (72)	88-81—169	t-49th
Apr. 22-24, 2005	Big 12 Championships (72)	78-81-84—243	45th

Date	Event (Par)	Score	Finish
Sept. 12-13, 2005	Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic (72)	73-78-75—226	t-30th
Sept. 26-27, 2005	Ron Moore Classic (72)	77-73-79—229	t-17th
Oct. 3-4, 2005	HEATHER FARR/CU MEMORIAL (72)	73-71-79—223	t-7th
Oct. 17-18, 2005	Price’s Give ‘Em Five Invite (72)	74-76-79—229	33rd
Nov. 1-2, 2005	Kent Youel Invite (72)	81-80-84—245	t-68th
Feb. 27-28, 2006	Kitahara Fresno State Invite (72)	77-77—154	t-53rd
Mar. 13-15, 2006	UNLV Spring Rebel Invite (72)	81-75-78—234	t-56th
Mar. 25-26, 2006	MOUNTAIN VIEW COLLEGIATE (72)	78-76-75—229	t-42nd
Apr. 3-4, 2006	Northwestern Invite (72)	72-73-75—220	t-14th
Apr. 9-10, 2006	Susie Maxwell Berning Invite (72)	80-74-77—231	t-35th
Apr. 17-19, 2006	Big 12 Championships (72)	78-71-76—225	t-5th

Career Statistics

Overall						Spring				Fall
Season	Rd	Strk	Avg	Lo	Rd		Strk	Avg	Rd		Strk	Avg
2002-03	28	2,233	79.75	73	15		1,206	80.40	13		1,027	79.00
2003-04	32	2,475	77.30	71	16		1,268	79.25	16		1,207	75.44
2004-05	31	2,392	77.16	70	17		1,335	78.53	14		1,057	75.50
2005-06	32	2,445	76.41	71	17		1,293	76.06	15		1,152	76.80
Totals	123	9,545	77.60	70	65		5,102	78.49	58		4,443	76.60

Top-5 Finishes: (3), 2003-04 (1), 2004-05 (1), 2005-06 (1)
Top-10 Finishes: (5), 2003-04 (1), 2004-05 (2), 2005-06 (2)
Subpar Rounds: (4), 2003-04 (1), 2004-05 (1), 2005-06 (2)