Year: 2019
Award: Golf, College
Location/Affiliation: University of Colorado Boulder
- 3-time Regional Golf Champion
- Top Amateur, Colorado Women’s Open
Kirsty Hodgkins in the latest golfer to lead the University of Colorado Boulder (CU) women’s team. She wrapped up her senior season in 2019 with impressive finishes in both the fall and spring seasons and led the team with a 73 stroke average.
She qualified for her third straight NCAA Regional Tournament and finished 14th overall. She carded a 219, which was the fifth best score ever recorded by a CU Buff at an NCAA regional. Kirsty also scored two second place finishes in the fall season at the SMU Trinity Forest Invitational and the Betsy Rawls Invitational.
Then, in the summer, Kirsty Hodgkins took on a field of women’s professional golfers at the Colorado Women’s Open. She place seventh in the tournament and took honors as the event’s top amateur finisher.