Eagle Golf Returns to Action in California This Week

2026 ALICE & JOHN WALLACE INVITATIONAL
Date	Saturday-Monday, Feb. 14-16, 2026
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Venue	Monterey CC \| Palm Desert, Calif. \| Par: 71 \| Yards: 6,108
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PALM DESERT, Calif. (EMUEagles.com) — For the first time since late October, the Eastern Michigan University women's golf team is back in action as the Eagles are set to open their spring slate at the Alice and John Wallace Invitational, Feb. 14-16, in Palm Desert, Calif. The three-day event will be hosted by Long Beach State University at the par-71, 6,108-yard Monterey Country Club with shotgun starts each day at 8 a.m. PT (11 a.m. ET).

ON THE COURSE FOR EASTERN
Here are the Eagles that could compete in the 2026 Alice and John Wallace Invitational:
1. Janae Leovao (Sr.) • 72.5avg. | #100-ranked; Opened the year with back-to-back individual victories
2. Jasmine Leovao (Sr.) • 72.0 avg. | #92-ranked; Runner-up at last competition (Rainbow Wahine Invite)
3. Savannah de Bock (Jr.) • 72.9 avg. | #153-ranked; Medalist at Citrus Golf Trail Invitational (Dec. 2025)
4. Matilde Zocchi (Fr.) • 75.4 avg. | #464-ranked; T20th at The Southern in her collegiate debut
5. Ammy Raemmuang (Fr.) • 74.0 avg. | T38th at Rainbow Wahine Invite in her collegiate debut

ALSO PLAYING
Baiyok Sukterm is currently in Royal Wellington, New Zealand, where she is taking part in the 2025 Women's Amateur Asia Pacific, Feb. 12-15. The event, which was developed by the Royal & Ancient and the Asia-Pacific Golf Federation, will see the winner earn invitations into three major championships, including the AIG Women's Open, the Amundi Evian Championship, and The Cheveron Championship, along with other elite events, including the Women's Australia Open and the Augusta National Women's Amateur.

CHIP INS
» Eastern climbed two spots to No. 33 in the latest Scoreboard/Clippd rankings release (Feb. 11), the second-highest ranking achieved in program history. The team's best ranking came Oct. 22 when it sat at No. 29.
» Three Eagles are among the national top 150 in the latest Scoreboard/Clippd rankings, including No. 92 Jasmine Leovao, No. 100 Janae Leovao, and No. 148 Baiyok Sukterm. Savannah de Bock (No. 153), Mariana Vega (No. 223) and Matilde Zocchi (No. 455) also are among the top 500.
» Over the winter break, two Eagles captured titles in competitions, including Savannah de Bock and Julianna Go. De Bock captured medalist honors at the Citrus Trail Golf Invitational in Florida in late December while Go won the crown at the NGAP Riviera Amateur Open in the Philippines.
» Eastern captured the title at the Leadership & Golf Invitational (Sept. 15-16), the 30th crown in program history, and, coupled with the title won at The Southern (Sept. 8-9), secured back-to-back crowns for the fifth time in program history. It also marked only the second time EMU has won consecutive 54-hole tournaments.
» Josh Brewer has now won 18 titles as a head coach after securing 16 with Georgia and the past two with EMU.
» The team broke the school record with a score of 859, surpassing the previous low of 871 set last year at the Gators Invitational (March 7-8, 2025). It also reset the low score for tournaments played at par-72 events after the team shot 875 one week earlier at The Southern.
» Janae Leovao won the individual title at the Leadership and Golf Invitational for her second consecutive title to become the first Eagle to win back-to-back titles in program history. She is the first EMU player since Stephany Fleet (2007-08) to win multiple titles in the same season.
» Janae Leovao is one win away from tying and setting a program record. With another win this season, she would become the fourth Eagle to win three tournaments in a single career while also becoming the first to win three titles in the same season.
» Eastern players have been named the MAC Golfer of the Week twice in the 2025-26 season, including Janae Leovao (Sept. 19) and Baiyok Sukterm (Oct. 10).
» The 2025-26 roster features 11 players, including five returners in Savannah de Bock, Julianna Go, Angelica Holman, Erina Tan, and Mariana Vega are all back for the Eagles this season. The program also added six newcomers, including three transfers and three freshmen.
» The Eagles were busy over the summer playing in numerous events. One of the biggest events was the 2025 European Ladies' Team Championship where Caterina Don and Italy placed seventh and Savannah de Bock and Belgium finished ninth by winning the Flight B competition.

TOURNAMENT INFO: THE FACTS
Monterey Country Club in Palm Desert, Calif., will play host to the Alice and John Wallace Invitational with the three-day tournament running Feb. 14-16. Each of the three days will open with an 8 a.m. shotgun start on the par-71 course that will measure 6,108 yards. Live results will be available at Scoreboard.com.

TOURNAMENT INFO: THE FIELD
The Alice and John Wallace Invitational features 16 teams with only two - Eastern Michigan and Vanderbilt - hailing from the western half of the United States. Along with the Eagles, Commodores, and host Long Beach State, the remaining teams in the field include Boise State, California, Denver, Fresno State, Grand Canyon, Hawai'i, New Mexico, Northern Arizona, San Jose State, UCLA, UC Riverside, USC, and Washington.

IN THE RANKINGS • TEAMS
Ten of the 16 teams in the Alice and John Wallace Invitational are ranked among the national top 100 in the latest Scoreboard/Clippd rankings, including four top 50 squads in No. 2 USC, No. 10 Vanderbilt, No. 11 UCLA, and No. 33 Eastern. The remaining teams in the top 100 include No. 57 San Jose State, No. 59 California, No. 63 Northern Arizona, No. 92 Boise State, No. 99 Washington, and No. 100 Long Beach State.

IN THE RANKINGS • INDIVIDUAL
The field at the Alice and John Wallace Invitational will also feature many highly-ranked individuals, including 17 players among the national top 150 according to the Feb. 11 Scoreboard/Clippd rankings. The field is led by No. 21 Jeonghyun Lee of UCLA and No. 23 Elise Lee of USC and with four more players ranked in the top 50. The field also features seven players ranked between No. 51 and No. 100, including Jasmine Leovao (No. 92) and Janae Leovao (No. 100) for the Eagles while three players are ranked in the top 125 and two in the top 160, including EMU's Savannah de Bock (No. 153).

FAMILIAR SURROUNDINGS
Ahead of the season, the Leovao Twins, Janae and Jasmine, transferred into the EMU program after three seasons playing with Long Beach State. The Oceanside, Calif., natives have faced their previous school twice already in 2025 and helped the Eagles to higher finishes in the team standings over the 49ers in both the Leadership & Golf Invitational (Sept. 15-16) and the Rainbow Wahine Invitational (Oct. 20-22).

This week's event will not only mark the third time the Leovao's have played against LBSU but will mark the third time both will have played the Monterey CC course after playing there with the 49ers in each of the past two seasons. Jasmine finished second at the 2024 LBSU/UC Riverside/Boise State Tri-Dual before finishing tied for eighth last year in the Alice and John Wallace Invitational. Janae competed in both events as well where she was eighth in the tri-dual and tied for 14th in the Wallace event.

RECORD RANKING
Entering the week, the Eagles are ranked No. 33 in the latest Scoreboard/Clippd rankings, marking their second-highest ranking held behind only the No. 29 position earned Oct. 22, 2025. All rankings held this season have been among the best in program history as each surpassed the No. 122 ranking obtained in the final rankings of the 2024-25 season. The rankings in the fall also are the highest the program has ever received after not cracking the top 80 previously.

THREE EAGLES IN THE TOP 150
Six Eagles hold rankings according to Scoreboard/Clippd with all six inside the top 500 and three inside the top 150. Jasmine Leovao leads the way at No. 92 while sister Janae Leovao is No. 100 and Baiyok Sukterm is No. 148. Savannah de Bock is just outside the top 150 at No. 53 this week while two other Eagles are among the top 500 as Mariana Vega is No. 225 and Matilde Zocchi is No. 464.

STAYING SHARP
Over the winter break, two Eagles not only competed in events but captured medalist honors as well. In late December, Savannah de Bock took part in the Citrus Golf Trail Invitational in Florida and captured the title and the orange jacket with her performance. One month later, in mid-January, Julianna Go played in her home country and captured the title at the 2026 NGAP Riviera Amateur Open in Silang, Philippines.

LPGA COLLEGIATE ADVANCEMENT PATHWAY
The LPGA has instituted its Collegiate Advancement Pathway program, which will be used to help the top 10 collegiate players on the list earn priority status on the Epson Tour for the remainder of the 2026 season and all of the 2027 season while also adding in exemptions into the different rounds of the 2026 LPGA Q-Series. As of Feb. 10, Janae Leovao is ranked No. 36 (683.17091 points) while Jasmine Leovao is just behind her at No. 37 (668.2082).

REVIEW: RAINBOW WAHINE INVITE
The last time the Eagles competed was Oct. 20-22, 2025, when they finished fourth at the Rainbow Wahine Invitational on the Ocean Course at Hokuala in Lihu'e, Hawai'i. Eastern shot 3-over 867 over the three days of play with No. 15 Baylor winning the title at 13-under 851. Individually, Jasmine Leovao was the top finisher for the Eagles as she finished as the runner-up at 6-under 210 while Mariana Vega added a top 20 showing by finishing tied for 18th at 2-over 218.

During the tournament, several top marks in program history were recorded, including the team's 867 strokes, which ranks as the second-best score in team history behind the 859 fired at the Leadership & Golf Invitational earlier in the season. Two rounds in the tournament also ranked among the all-time top 11 in EMU history as the third-round 281 broke the school record of 282 shot in the opening round of the Leadership event while the first-round 289 carded in Hawai'i tied for 11th. Individually, Js. Leovao added her name to the single-round scoring ledger twice as he first-round 69 tied for the 17th-lowest in program history while her final-round 68 tied for seventh on the list.

MAKING REVISIONS
In the first year-and-one-half of play under Josh Brewer (Fall 2024-Fall 2025), the team has taken its talons to the record book on numerous occasions. In fact, just in the five events played during the Fall 2025 season, the Eagles broke the team single low round four times, the team score once and added nine total marks to those two areas. For the lowest single-round team score, the record ahead of the 2024-25 season was 286, shot Sept. 22, 2015, at the Cardinal Classic and was broken five times since, including:
» 285 at the Golfweek Red Sky Classic (third round)(Sept. 25, 2024)
» 285 at The Southern (first round)(Sept. 8, 2025)
» 283 at The Southern (second round)(Sept. 9, 2025)
» 282 at the Leadership & Golf Invitational (first round)(Sept. 15, 2025)
» 281 at the Rainbow Wahine Invitational (third round)(Oct. 22, 2025)

MORE LOW ROUNDS
Eastern has recorded 23 rounds of team scoring at 291 or lower in program history with nine of those coming in the fall, equating to 9-of-14 rounds played. In fact, ahead of the start of the 2024-25 season, only eight such rounds had been recorded.
» 281 at Rainbow Wahine Invitational (round 3)(Oct. 22, 2025)
» 282 at Leadership & Golf Invitational (round 1)(Sept. 15, 2025)
» 283 at The Southern (round 2)(Sept. 8, 2025)
» 284 at Golfweek Red Sky Classic (round 2)(Sept. 23, 2025)
» 285 at The Southern (round 1)(Sept. 8, 2025)
» 286 at Leadership & Golf Invitational (round 2)(Sept. 15, 2025)
» 287 at Golfweek Red Sky Classic (round 3)(Sept. 24, 2025)
» 289 at Rainbow Wahine Invitational (round 1)(Oct. 20, 2025)
» 291 at Leadership & Golf Invitational (round 3)(Sept. 16, 2025)

FOR THREE?
Janae Leovao has played in two tournaments for the Eagles and won both individual titles as she was the medalist at The Southern and the Leadership & Golf Invitational events earlier this year. Leovao is on the cusp of more history with the Eagles as another victory this season would make her the first player in program history to record three wins in the same season while becoming only the fourth Eagle to win three titles in a career in Ypsilanti. Stephanie Smoot was the first to three wins with titles in 1998, 1999, and 2000 before Catherine Fortin added wins in 2006, 2007, and 2008. Stephany Fleet was the most recent winner of three titles as she won once in 2006-07 before taking two in the 2007-08 season.

TAKING IT BACK(-2-BACK)
The win in Washington was the 30th all-time for the Eagles and, coupled with the win at The Southern (Sept. 8-9) gave the Eagles back-to-back titles for the fifth time in program history and the first time since the 2021-22 season when they won the Golden Grizzly Invitational in Rochester, Mich. (Sept. 26-27, 2021) and the Shirley Spork Invitational at home (Oct. 4-5, 2021). Additionally, Eastern won back-to-back 54-hole tournaments for just the second time with the only other instance coming during the 2019-20 season. That year, the Eagles won titles at the Shirley Spork Invitational at home (Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2019) and the MAC Fall Preview in Silver Lakes, Ohio (Oct. 7-8, 2019).

TWIN WINS
The medalist honors Janae Leovao secured at The Southern marked her first collegiate victory after previously finishing second in three different events in the three previous seasons with Long Beach State. The win, however, is not the first for a member of the Leovao family as sister Jasmine Leovao won three times with LBSU. Jasmine won the 2023 and 2024 Big West Conference titles before taking medalist honors in 2025 in the LBSU dual with San Diego State. Overall, a Leovao has now won a collegiate event at least once in each of the past four seasons.

ADDING TO THE TOTALS • INDIVIDUAL WINS
Janae Leovao's victory at The Southern marked the 26th individual title won by an Eastern player while making her the 17th different player to add her name to the list. Her victory made it back-to-back medalist honors earned by an EMU player after Angelica Holman won the Women's National Golf Invitational, May 9-11, 2025, in Arizona. Additionally, she is the third player to win a title under Josh Brewer at EMU with Savannah de Bock winning the Golfweek Red Sky Classic, Sept. 23-25, 2024.

MORE WINS BREWER-ING
Eastern Michigan has now won twice under Josh Brewer, who has now won 18 tournaments in his coaching career after securing 16 during his 12-year tenure at Georgia. The wins also marked the first for a Brewer-led team since the Bulldogs won the 2023 NCAA Athens Regional in Athens, Ga., the team's third NCAA regional title.

TWINNING
Janae Leovao shot 7-under 209 to win the Leadership & Golf Invitational (Sept. 15-16) that included rounds of 68 and 69 to close out the win. She won her second consecutive tournament after finishing no higher than second place four times in her prior 35 tournaments. Her win made her the seventh different EMU player to record multiple wins in a career and the first to win multiple times in the same season since Stephany Fleet won twice in 2007-08. She also became the first EMU player to win back-to-back titles in program history and, coupled with teammate Angelica Holman's win at the Women's National Golf Invitational that closed out the 2024-25 season, EMU has now won three consecutive individual tournament titles for the first time in program history.

FEELING HONORED
Eastern Michigan has had two individuals honored as the MAC Golfer of the Week, including Janae Leovao (Sept. 19) and Baiyok Sukterm (Oct. 10). Leovao earned the award following her second victory of the season as she captured medalist honors at the Leadership & Golf Invitational at Chambers Bay to mark back-to-back wins to open the season. Sukterm was honored after taking second place at the Oklahoma Invitational as she led the team to a runner-up finish in the rain-shortened event.

ON THE HORIZON
Eastern will return to California for its next tournament as the Eagle and the USC will play host to the inaugural GameAbove Golf Invitational, March 9-10, at Rolling Hills Country Club in Rolling Hills Estates, Calf. The two-day, three-round event will feature 11 teams in a field that, along with the hosts, includes Arizona, Colorado, Hawai'i, Long Beach State, Oregon, SMU, Texas A&M, Tulsa, and UCLA. The final two rounds on March 10 also will be streamed live by College Golf Network (CGN) on YouTube.

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Players Mentioned

Savannah de Bock

Julianna Go

Angelica Holman

Janae Leovao

Jasmine Leovao

Ammy Raemmuang

Baiyok Sukterm

Erina Tan

Mariana Vega

Matilde Zocchi

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