Baylor Women’s Golf Signs Four Student-Athletes

[Kaye, David]

BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Nov. 18, 2019

Baylor Women’s Golf Signs Four Student-Athletes
Bears add one to 2019-20 squad, three who will join team in fall 2020
For more information contact: David Kaye, 254-709-5147, David_Kaye at baylor.edu<mailto:David_Kaye at baylor.edu>


WACO, Texas – Baylor women’s golf head coach Jay Goble announced Monday the signings of four student-athletes to National Letters of Intent.



Rosie Belsham, Hannah Karg, Nina Lang and Britta Snyder all signed to join the Baylor golf program in 2020. Karg will join the Bears in January to compete in the 2019-20 spring season, while Belsham, Lang and Snyder will compete for the Bears starting in the fall of 2020. All four signees will have four years of eligibility at Baylor.

“This is probably one of the most tournament-ready classes I have signed here at Baylor,” Goble said. “Each one of these players has competed numerous times against the best young players in the world, and more importantly, thy have had success doing it. This group also has the drive to continue to elevate Baylor Women’s Golf for many years to come. It is going to be a lot of fun to see what this group is going to accomplish.”



Belsham is ranked No. 68 in the European Golf Rankings. She has recorded seven top-10 finishes in WAGR-counting events in 2019, including a 20-stroke victory at the 2019 Fairhaven Trophy, where she shot -23, 277, the lowest-ever score in the series, including boys or girls.



A native of Whitley Bay, England, Belsham took second place at the 2019 English Women’s Open Amateur Championship, finished fourth at the 2019 Duke of York Young Champions Trophy and placed fifth at the 2019 English Women’s Amateur Championship. In 2018, she took second place in the Scottish Girls’ Open Championship. She also became the youngest winner of the Northumberland Ladies County Championship as a 15-year-old in June 2017.



Karg will join the Bears out of Hamburg, Germany. She has been ranked as high as No. 171 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking and has recorded a pair of top-10 finishes in WAGR-counting events. She finished ninth in the 2019 German Match Play and also took ninth in the 2018 Berlin Open Championship.



Karg recorded five top-25 finishes out of 10 WAGR events played in 2018, including a 13th-place finish at the 2018 German Girls Open. Karg also won the 2017 Scottish Girls Open Championship, shooting 72-66-69 to card -12, 207, which was 10 strokes better than the rest of the 102-player field.



Lang is ranked No. 87 in the European Golf Rankings. An Ingolstadt, Germany native, Lang won the 2019 Deutche Meisterschaft Madchen with scores of 72-71-71 and claimed medalist honors at the 2019 Junior Orange Bowl International Girls Championship by shooting 72-67-67-72. She also took second place in the 2019 Bayerische Meisterschaft and finished third in the 2018 Doral-Publix Junior Girls Golf Classic.



Lang previously won the 2015 PARS Florida International Junior, the 2015 German National Girls U14 Championship, the 2014 International Austrian Girls U14 Championship and the 2014 PARS Florida International Junior U14, and she finished second in the 2016 Italian International Women’s Amateur.



Snyder attends Gilbert High School in Ames, Iowa. She is currently ranked 13th among junior golfers in the 2020 signing class according to Junior Golf Scoreboard, and she’s ranked in the top-25 in her class by both Golfweek and Rolex. Snyder has won three AJGA tournaments, most recently at the 2019 Randy Wise Junior Open, where she claimed a four-shot victory after carding 72-74-70.



Snyder has collected 17 top-10 finishes on the AJGA Tour, including a second-place finish in the 2019 AJGA Gateway Mortgage Group Tulsa Junior and another second-place finish in the 2018 AJGA Gary Woodland Junior Championship. She has qualified for six USGA National Championships. Snyder won the 2017 Iowa Women’s Amateur Championship by 13 strokes, becoming the youngest winner since the championship switched to stroke play in 1934.



Snyder has won back-to-back Iowa High School State Individual Championships, was named Iowa Girls Golfer of the year in both 2018 and 2019 and earned USA Today High School All-America first-team honors in 2018-19.



Baylor finished the fall season No. 25 nationally in the latest Golfstat rankings. The Bears recorded three fourth-place finishes and placed in the top-half of the field in all five fall events. Baylor returns to action on Feb. 9 with the SMU Spring Invite, which is hosted at Dallas Athletic Club, the same site as the 2020 Big 12 Championship.



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David Kaye | Assistant AD for Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
C: 254-709-5147

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