Lauren Walsh

Class:
Senior
High School:
Piper's Hill College
Hometown:
Kildare, Ireland

Career Highlights

2020 WGCA All-America Honorable Mention
2021 All-ACC Team
2021 WGCA Second Team All-American
2021 WGCA All-America Scholar
2021 Arnold Palmer Cup
2021 Curtis Cup
2022 All-ACC Team
2022 Curtis Cup
2022 WGCA All-American Scholar
2023 All-ACC Team
2023 Arnold Palmer Cup
2023 WGCA First Team All-American

2022-23 Season (Senior)
Second on the team with a 71.39 stroke average over 36 rounds, which is the fourth-lowest season scoring average in program history...Had 10 top 25 finishes in 12 events this year, including seven in the top 10...Finished in the top five at ACC Championships for the second year in a row, coming in tied for fifth...had the best individual finish at NCAA Championships, going undefeated in match play and finishing tied for seventh in stroke play with a six-under score of 282...was selected to her second Arnold Palmer Cup Team and was named a WGCA First Team All-American in addition to her third straight All-ACC selection...her career scoring average of 72.25 is the third-lowest in program history.

2021-22 Season (Junior)
Played in the lineup for seven regular season events and played as an individual at the Landfall Tradition in October...recorded six top 25 finishes with her best coming at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate to open the season...finished T8 with a three-under score of 213...recorded her lowest 54-hole score at the UCF Challenge in February with a five-under score 211 and placed T19...earned medalist honors at ACC Championships finishing T3 with a one-under 215...earned All-ACC accolades...was third on the team with a stroke average of 73.03 over 33 rounds...Named WGCA All-American Scholar

2020-21 Season (Sophomore)
Named WGCA Second Team All-American...WGCA All-American Scholar...selected to All-ACC Team...Selected to Arnold Palmer Cup Team International...Selected to Curtis Cup Team GB&I...Second on the team with a stroke average of 72.41 over 22 rounds...appeared in the lineup for all seven events this spring...started the season with back-to-back second place finishes at the UCF Challenge and Palmetto Intercollegiate...shot a season-best five-under 211 at the UCF Challenge...recorded four more top 15 finishes

2019-20 Season (Freshman - COVID-19 Shortened Season)
Appeared in the lineup for all seven events of the short season...finished with a stroke average of 72.37...finished inside the top 25 six times with her best coming at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate where she T6...best score came at the Cougar Classic where she carded a 211 (-5) and finished T7...Named WGCA All-American Honorable Mention.

Prior to Wake Forest...
Ranked as high as No. 201 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings ... 2017 All Ireland Schools individual and Team Champion ... Semifinalist at the 2019 Irish Women's Close Championship ... 2017 Leinster Girl's Champion ... 2017/2018 Connacht Girl's Champion ... 2018 Connacht Women's Champion ... Represented Ireland internationally at 2016 and 2017 Irish Girls International Home Internationals, the 2017 European Girls Team Championship, the 2017 and 2018 World Junior Girls Championship, the Irish Women's International for 2018 and 2019 Home Internationals and 2018 and 2019 European Ladies Team Championship ... Represented Team Ireland at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Personal...
Born September 11, 2000 in Dublin, Ireland ... daughter of Miriam and James Walsh ... has two siblings, Clodagh and Edward.