MAC Women’s Golfer of the Week
Karen Tsuru, Fourth Year, Eastern Michigan
Carlsbad, Calif. (San Diego Virtual School)
Event: Rainbow Wahine Invitational | Individual Score: 215 (-1)
Team Finish: T-4th | Individual Finish: T-6th
Tsuru was the top Eagle in the Rainbow Wahine Invitational as she carded a 1-over 215 (70-72-73) to post her second consecutive top 10 finish after tying for ninth at the Oklahoma Intercollegiate (Oct. 5-6). Tsuru, who was ranked No. 221 nationally, tied with one player ranked higher than her in No. 140 Nanami Nakashima of Kansas State while beating out five players ranked higher, including No. 53 Jiarui Chen of Kansas State. Overall, her finish marked her first back-to-back top 10 showings since she earned three consecutive during the 2024-25 season for Oregon at the Alice & John Wallace Classic (fourth), the Juli Inkster Invitational (tied for first), and the Charles Schwab Women’s Collegiate Invitational (tied for sixth).
MAC Men’s Co-Golfers of the Week
Vicente Quiroga, Eastern Michigan, 1st, Cochabamba, Bolivia (Tiquipaya School)
Event: Bank of Tennessee Invitational
Individual: T3 | Team: 2nd
Score: 70-68-64=202 (-14)
Quiroga tied for third at 14-under 202 (70-68-64) at the Bank of Tennessee Invitational to lead the Eagles to a second-place team finish. Quiroga, who started the final round in a tie for 11th, posted 10 birdies and two bogies to shoot a final-round 64 and make his run toward the top of the standings. His 64, the fourth-lowest in program history, was the lowest final-round score in the 26-year history of the Bank of Tennessee Invitational and helped him shoot 202, which tied for the tournament’s fifth-best score. Quiroga, ranked No. 244 this week, beat out 11 players ranked ahead of himself nationally, including a trio of top 50 players in No. 13 Erik Tjarnberg and No. 46 Veigar Heidarsson of ETSU and No. 27 Bence Bertenyi of MAC rival Toledo, to help him grab his second top three showing in as many tournaments after he used a final-round and school-record-tying 63 to earn co-medalist honors at the Nemacolin Collegiate Invitational earlier this month (Oct. 5-6).
B1G Men’s and Women’s POW
Golfer of the Week
Hamish Farquharson, Washington
Freshman – Melbourne, Australia – St. Kevin’s College
- Captured co-medalist honors at the Saint Mary’s Invitational with a 10-under 206 to become the first Husky freshman since 2018 to win a tournament individual title
- He is the fourth Husky freshman to earn medalist honors and the first since Robert Moran in 2018
- Posted rounds of 66, 72, and 68 on his way to the title, helping the Huskies win their first team championship since 2023
- Last Washington Big Ten Men’s Golfer of the Week: Finn Koelle (Sept. 17, 2026)
2026-27 Big Ten Men’s Golfers of the Week
Sept. 10 – RJ Arone, Michigan | Jenson Forrester, Purdue
Sept. 17 – Finn Koelle, Washington
Sept. 24 – Max Herendeen, Illinois
Oct. 1 – Kuan Zhou, Northwestern
Oct. 8 – McCoy Biagioli, Michigan State
Oct. 15 – Chun-Ta Wu, Minnesota
Oct. 22 – Hamish Farquharson, Washington
