It’s good to be a Buckeye. Take it from Calgary’s Jaclyn Lee, a talented teen who is now part of a fiercely proud sporting tradition as a freshman on the women’s golf team at Ohio State University. “I don’t think that you realize until you get here how many students look up to you and how many other students think that it’s so cool that you’re part of the golf team,” said Lee, a member at Glencoe Golf & Country Club, a representative of Golf Canada’s national amateur team and the reigning champion at the Alberta Ladies Amateur. “And also meeting other student-athletes who share the same passion for their sport as you do for yours, that’s really cool. There’s just so much support around here. You can’t really go wrong.” The 18-year-old Lee should really feel that support this weekend as she tees off in the 2016 Lady Buckeye Invitational, her first official home game as an NCAA golfer. Ohio State might be best-known for its powerhouse football program, but the alumni list also includes Meg Mallon, an 18-time winner on the LPGA Tour, and a guy named Jack Nicklaus who collected a trophy or two — actually 73, including a record 18 majors — during his PGA Tour heyday. “It’s definitely going to be nice having a tournament here in Columbus because all my floor-mates and my friends will be there, and my family is coming out to watch, too,” Lee said of the Lady Buckeye Invitational, a two-round shootout at Ohio State’s Scarlet Course. “It’s going to really cool.” Lee was bothered by a wrist injury in the fall, but she’s showing during the spring semester why she was a prized recruit. In fact, the freshman finance major was the Buckeyes’ top performer with a T-18 finish last week at the Silverado Showdown in California. Her finest display so far in collegiate competition is a share of ninth at the Westbrook Spring Invitational in Arizona in late February. Lee’s busy summer schedule will include a title defence at the 2016 Sun Life Financial Alberta Ladies Amateur at Highwood in High River, plus tee-times at the Ladies’ British Open Amateur in Scotland and the Canadian Women’s Amateur in Nova Scotia…
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