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BULLDOG BIOS

ISABELLA HOLPFER

5-7 ◊ SOPHOMORE ◊ VIENNA, AUSTRIA ◊ JOURNALISM

ISABELLA’S SCORECARD

CAREER STATISTICS

Season T RD STK AVG LOW

‘20-21 7 21 1583 75.38 69 ‘21-22 4 12 867 72.75 68

Totals 11 33 2450 74.24 68

TOP 10 FINISHES: 2 (1/1) TOP 20 FINISHES: 3 (2/1) PAR OR BETTERS: 11 (5/6)

BEST FINISH:

5th – 2021 Columbus Regional

LOW ROUND:

68 (-4) – 2021 Cougar Classic 2nd

LOW TOURNAMENT:

211 (-5) – 2021 Illini Invitational ◊ 2021 Augusta National Women’s Amateur Participant ◊ 2021 WGCA All-American Scholar & SEC Honor Roll ◊ Runner-up at the 2018 & 2019 R&A Girls’ Amateurs 2021 FALL HIGHLIGHTS:

• Led the Bulldogs with 42 birdies a team-high counting percentage of .917. • Fired par-or-better efforts in six of her 12 fall rounds, leading to a 72.75 stroke average. • Georgia’s top individual finisher at two events, the Illini Invitational and the Stanford Intercollegiate. • Shot 5-under 211 to finish sixth individually and lead Georgia to the team championship in the Illini Invitational. • Bettered her career-best 54-hole score by six strokes at the Illini Invitational. 2020-21 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS:

2020-21 RESULTS

• Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll for first-year students. • Compiled an average of 75.38 with five par-or-better efforts and a pair of top-20 individual finishes. • Opened the 2020 fall edition of the Liz Murphey with a 3-under 69, her low loop of the year. • Competed in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur but did not make the 30-player cut after shooting 79-85. • Shot a season-best 217 to tie for fifth at the NCAA Columbus Regional and help lead Georgia to a 15-stroke win.

T47 Blessings Coll. .......79-77-79=235 • Placed second at the Salzburg Women’s Championship in her first summer event.

T19 T67 T23 Liz Murphey Fall..... Gamecock Inter. .... Liz Murphey............ 69-74-77=220 78-75-74=227 70-78-79=227 • Represented Austria in both the European Ladies Team Championships and the European Ladies Amateur. • Finished fifth at the Austrian Women’s International Amateur, where she recorded a 3-under 289 tally.

T63 T5 SECs...................... NCAA Columbus.... 72-79-76=227 72-70-75=217 PRE COLLEGIATE HIGHLIGHTS:

T97 NCAAs ...................81-73-76=227 • Ranked as high as No. 25 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings, with 28 top-10s in WAGR events from 2014-20. 2021 FALL RESULTS T29 Cougar Classic.......74-68-75=217 • One of three Bulldogs – along with Caterina Don and Candice Mahe – invited to compete in the 2020 Augusta National Women’s Amateur prior to the event’s cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

T50 Mason Rudolph......77-75-70=222 • Finished third in her debut event on the LET Access Series, the 2019 VP Bank Ladies Open at Gams-Werdenberg

T6 Illini Invit. ............... 70-70-71=211 Golf Club in Gams, Switzerland.

T26 Stanford Inter. ........74-69-74=217 • Finished as runner-up at both the 2018 and 2019 R&A Girls’ Amateur Championships. In 2019, lost a 4-and-3 decision to Pia Babnik in the championship match. In 2018, tied for 15th in qualifying at Royal St. David’s Golf Club and never trailed in her first four matches. Dropped a 2-and-1 decision of Austrian teammate Emma Spitz in the championship. • Represented Austria at the 2019 European Ladies’ Team Championship and at the 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 European Girls’ Team Championships. • Won the 2014 the Austrian Match Play Championship as a 13-year-old, the youngest winner ever. • Recorded additional international victories at the 2015 Irish Women’s Stroke Play Championship, the 2018 Slovenian Amateur and the 2018 English

Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship. • Notched additional top-10s in 2018 at the International de France U21 Trophee Esmond (fifth), the

Spanish Ladies Amateur (fifth) and the Portuguese International Ladies Amateur (eighth). • Shot 1-under 287 to capture the 2018 Slovenian Amateur in Livada. After being part of a fiveway tie for the lead after an opening 72, shot 70 in the second round and led the rest of the way. Held off Pia Babnik of Slovenia and fellow Austrian Emma Spitz by one stroke on the final leaderboard. • Wrapped up 2018 with a dominating 11-shot win at the English Women’s Amateur at Coventry Golf

Club, where she led from wire-to-wire after posting a 7-under 66 in the opening round and eventually finished at 13-under. • Won the 2015 Irish Stroke Play in a sudden-death playoff with Chloe Ryan. • Helped Europe capture the Junior Vagliano Trophy in both 2015 and 2017. In 2017, posted a perfect 4-0 record to help the Europeans defeat Great Britain and Ireland, 15-3. Represented Europe with current Georgia teammate Caterina Don in the 2017 event. • Top performances in the Euro Girls’ Team Championships came in 2014, when she tied for 10th in stroke play qualifying to help Austria earn the No. 2 seed in the match play bracket at Golf

Resort Skalica in Trnava, Slovenia; and in 2015, when she helped Austria earn a bronze medal at

Golf Resort Kaskada in Kurin, Czech Republic. • Earned a wildcard spot in the 2010 U.S. KidsGolf World Championship in Pinehurst, N.C. Eventually participated in five editions of the tournament, finishing 25th in 2010 (9-year-old), 30th in 2011 (10-year-old), 14th in 2012 (11-year-old) and eighth in 2013 (12-year-old). PERSONAL:

• Born January 6, 2001, Isabella is the daughter of JoAnn and Günter Holpfer and she intends to major in Journalism. • Recipient of the Jerman/Bruce Women’s Golf Scholarship for 2021-22.

BULLDOG BIOS

JO HUA HUNG

5-4 ◊ SENIOR ◊ NEW TAIPEI CITY, TAIPEI ◊ SPORT MANAGEMENT ◊ 2021 U.S. Women’s Open Participant ◊ 2020 & 2021 SEC Academic Honor Roll ◊ 2019 SEC All-Freshman team 2021 FALL HIGHLIGHTS:

• Competed in every event, including individually at the Mason Rudolph. • Led the team with nine par-or-better rounds over 12 loops. • Also produced a team-best three top-20s – 19th at the Cougar Classic, fifth at the Mason Rudolph and 13th at the Illini Invitational. • Opened the fall with nine straight par-or-betters, including a career-low 6-under 66 in the Mason Rudolph. • Though competing individually, was Georgia’s top finisher at the Mason Rudolph Championship. 2020-21 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS:

• Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll. • One of two Bulldogs – along with Jenny Bae – in the lineup for all 11 events. • Finished the season third on the team in stroke average (74.64) and second most birdies (89). • Georgia’s top individual finisher at the last two regular-season events – the Liz Murphey and LSU Classic. • After averaging 75.44 in the fall, trimmed that by 1.11 stroke per round to 74.33 during the spring. • Posted six of her seven par-or-better efforts during the 2021 calendar portion of the season. • Earned a 2021 U.S. Women’s Open bid by finishing third a qualifier at Druid Hills Golf Club in Atlanta on May 5, one of six Bulldogs to earn eight spots in the fields of the last six U.S. Women’s Opens. • Secured her Open spot at a qualifier contested over three days due to consistent and heavy rainfall. Was 1-over through 30 holes of the qualifier but rallied to birdie three of her final six holes to surge up the leaderboard. • Missed the cut at The Olympic Club in San Francisco after shooting rounds of 76 and 80. 2019-20 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS:

• Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll, one of eight Bulldogs who received the recognition. • One of two golfers – along with Caterina Don – to earn a position in Georgia’s playing five for all seven tourneys. • Posted a 74.20 average en route to producing counting scores for the Bulldogs at an 80.0 percent pace. • Produced six par-or-better rounds, second most on the roster. • Opened and closed the fall with top-25 efforts, tying for 17th at Minnesota and 21st at White Sands. • Recorded a career-low 54-hole effort of 1-under 215 en route to finishing fourth individually at The Gold Rush.

JO HUA’S SCORECARD

CAREER STATISTICS

Season T RD STK AVG LOW

‘18-19 8 20 1479 73.95 69 ‘19-20 7 20 1484 74.20 70 ‘20-21 11 33 2463 74.64 69 ‘21-22 4 12 860 71.67 66

Totals 30 85 6286 73.95 66

TOP 10 FINISHES: 4 (1/1/1/1) TOP 20 FINISHES: 12 (4/2/3/3) PAR OR BETTERS: 27 (5/6/7/9)

BEST FINISH:

2nd – 2019 Duel In The Desert

LOW ROUND:

66 (-6) – 2021 Mason Rudolph 3rd

LOW TOURNAMENT:

209 (-7) – 2021 Mason Rudolph

2018-19 RESULTS

2 Duel in the Desert ...............70=70 T64 Puerto Rico ............78-81-74=233 T13 Gold Rush..............74-72-74=220 T13 Darius Rucker ........71-73-74=218 T38 PING/ASU..............74-74-74=222 T23 Liz Murphey.........................75=75

Liz Murphey Match...........W-W-W 12 SECs......................73-69-76=218

SEC Match............................W-W T33 NCAA Regional......76-76-71=223

2019-20 RESULTS

T17 Minnesota ................... 72-74=146 T36 The Molly................79-79-74=232 T40 Stanford .................76-73-70=219 T21 White Sands ..........72-73-73=218

2018-19 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS:

2020-21 RESULTS

• Selected to the SEC All-Freshman team after arriving in Athens as a mid-year enrollee in January. • Debuted as runner-up at the Duel in the Desert and also posted back-to-back top-20s at the Gold Rush (t-13th) and the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate (t-13th). • Named SEC Freshman of the Week after going 3-0 in match play at the Liz Murphey, including a 4-and-3 win over Arkansas All-American Dylan Kim. Trailed for only one of 50 holes of match play during the LMCC. • Led Georgia in stroke play at the SECs, tying for 12th at 2-over 218, and then was 2-0 in match play. PRE COLLEGIATE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Kept a busy schedule in the three years prior to her arrival at UGA, competing in 54 events and recording seven victories and 26 top-10 finishes. • Most recently before arriving in Athens competed in four professional tournaments, making the cut in each with a top showing of 24th at the Tainan Professional Golf Ladies Open. • Recorded top-10 finishes at 11 national level tournaments between 2016-18, including a victory at the 2016

Standard Chartered Bank National Summer Ranking Tournament and a trio of runner-up showings. • Played in 12 total events in the U.S. during 2016 and 2017, headlined by a a quartet of victories at the 2016 World

Junior Golf Series’ American Junior, the 2016 Aaron Baddeley International Junior, the 2016 AJGA Junior at Centennial and the 2017 Folds of Honor

Junior Championship. • Also secured medalist honors at a pair of Faldo Series events in 2017, the Grand Final (a 4-shot victory at the Al Ain Equestrian, Shooting and Golf Club in the United Arab Emirates) and the Asia Grand Final (a 3-shot win at Laguna Lang Co Golf Club in Vietnam). • Tied for 29th (ironically with former Georgia All-American Harang Lee of Spain) at the 2016 World Amateur Team Championships in Riviera Maya,

Mexico. Shot 8-over 296 to lead Chinese Taipei to a 14th-place finish on the team leaderboard. T37 Blessings Coll. ......75-83=73=231 48 The Ally..................78-74-72=224 T33 Liz Murphey Fall.....74-75-75=224 10 Heroes Inter. .........71-69-74=214 T44 Gators Invit. ...........78-72-73=223 T51 Gamecock Inter. ....76-73-76=225 T16 Liz Murphey............69-78-76=223 T20 LSU Classic............75-72-74=221 T41 SECs......................69-73-75=217 T36 NCAA Columbus....75-82-69=226 T118 NCAAs ...................82-73-80=235

2021 FALL RESULTS

T19 Cougar Classic.......72-71-72=215 5 Mason Rudolph......71-72-66=209 T13 Illini Invit. ...............71-72-70=213 55 Stanford Inter. ........74-73-76=223

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