Honors & Awards:
- WGCA All-American Scholar
2022-23
Competed in seven out of a possible eight tournaments her senior season ... Ranked second on the team with a 77.06 stroke average ... Had one top-10 and tied for the most top-25 finishes on the team with four ... Made her season debut at the Nittany Lion Invitational with rounds of 76-75-78 for a 13-over 229 ... Registered her first top-25 of the Low Country Intercollegiate (Mar. 17-19), tying for 11th out of 105 players at 11-over-par 155 (77-78) at Moss Creek Golf Club ... Earned a collegiate-best tie for seventh at the St. John's Invitational (Apr. 10-11) with a season-low opening round of 73, completing the tournament at 6-over-par 148.
2021-22
As a junior, accumulated an 80.06 stroke average (1,281 strokes in 16 rounds) with one top-10 finish and one top-25 finish … Season-low round was a 71 … Finished in a tie for 13th place with a 10-over-par 71-76-79-226 at the Boston College Intercollegiate (Sept. 20-21).
2020-21
Season canceled by Ivy League due to COVID-19 pandemic.
2019-20
As a first-year, ranked second on the team in stroke average with 74.90 (749 strokes in 10 rounds) and led the Lions with three top-25 individual finishes … Led the Lions with 17th-place individual finish at the Yale Intercollegiate (Oct. 4-6) with an eight-over-par 75-75-71 … Her 71 in the third round ranks as her career-low round … Placed 23th with a seven-over-par 73-78-151 at the Princeton Invitational (Sept. 28-29) … Took 30th place at the FAU Winter Warm-Up (Feb. 10-11) after shooting a 12-over par 81-73-74 … Placed 14th in first career collegiate competition at the Dartmouth Invitational (Sept. 14-15) after shooting a five-over-par 74-75-149.
HIGH SCHOOL
A 2019 graduate of The Pingry School in Basking Ridge, N.J., where she played four years of varsity golf for Head Coach Robert Mauer … Registered four top-5 finishes and seven top-10 finishes in AJGA competition career … Earned runner-up honors at the AJGA FORE Performance Junior Championship in 2018 … Three-time qualifier for the United States Girls Junior Championships (2016, 2017 and 2018) … Qualified for the PGA Junior Championship in 2016 … Earned fourth place finish at the 2015 Drive, Chip and Putt Nationals … Ranked No. 189 in the Polo Golf Rankings … First Team All-State selection as a junior in 2018 … Claimed Skyland Conference individual title with a 74 as a senior … Won 2019 Sectional North Division individual title (72) as a senior … Lowest round score was a 66 set as a junior in 2018 … Fired a course-record tying 66 for a 36-hole total of seven-under-par 136 to win the 63rd NJSGA Junior Girls Championship at 5,559-yard Royce Brook Golf Course (West) … Hit two hole-in-ones in a span of five months in 2018 … Two-time team captain … Earned four varsity letters in golf … As a senior, guided the Big Blue to the 2019 Somerset County team championship and 2019 New Jersey Sectional North Division team title … Finished in third place individually with a two-under-par 70 at the Tournament of Champions as a junior … Led the Big Blue to the 2018 New Jersey state Tournament of Champions championship, an undefeated 17-0 dual match record, Skyland Conference championship and Red Devil Tournament title … Pingry was named the 2018 New Jersey Advance Media “Team of the Year” … Earned 2018 Transamerica Scholastic Honor Roll honors … Also competed in cross country for two years and track and field as a senior … Four-year Honor Roll student.
PERSONAL
Born Christine Shao on June 15, 2001 in Edison, N.J. … Daughter of Michael Shao and Cindy Lu … Has a younger sister Sarah … Her parents are both engineers … Hobbies and interests include photography, drawing and cooking … Has played the violin and piano … Plays golf because it has a large influence in the way she approaches problems and situations on a daily basis … The integrity of the sport taught her to apply the same mindset to other aspects of her life … Favorite sports memory was shooting her lowest 18-hole round and Tiger Woods winning the Masters in 2019 … Favorite sports figure: Tiger Woods … Selected Columbia for its world-class education, its diversity in New York City and potential career opportunities of being in New York City … Chose Columbia over a scholarship offer from Virginia, along with offers from Duke, Northwestern and other Ivy League schools … Enrolled at Columbia College … Majoring in economics.
YEAR-BY-YEAR STATISTICS
|
No. |
No. |
|
Avg. |
Low |
In |
Par or |
|
|
|
Best |
| Season |
Tour |
Rds |
Strokes |
Score |
Round |
60s |
Better |
Wins |
Top 10 |
Top 25 |
Finish |
| 2019-20 |
4 |
10 |
749 |
74.90 |
71 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
T13 |
| 2020-21 |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
| 2021-22 |
6 |
16 |
1,281 |
80.06 |
71 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
T13 |
| 2022-23 |
7 |
18 |
1,387 |
77.06 |
73 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
T7 |
| Career |
17 |
44 |
3,417 |
77.66 |
71 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
8 |
T7 |
2019-20 SEASON
| Tournament Name |
Date |
R1 |
R2 |
R3 |
Total |
To Par |
Finish |
| Dartmouth Invitational |
Sept. 14-15 |
74 |
75 |
-- |
149 |
+5 |
T14 |
| Princeton Invitational |
Sept. 28-29 |
73 |
78 |
-- |
151 |
+7 |
T23 |
| Yale Intercollegiate |
Oct. 4-6 |
75 |
75 |
71 |
221 |
+8 |
T17 |
| FAU Winter Warm-Up |
Feb. 10-11 |
81 |
73 |
74 |
228 |
+12 |
T30 |
2021-22 SEASON
| Tournament Name |
Date |
R1 |
R2 |
R3 |
Total |
To Par |
Finish |
| Boston College Intercollegiate |
Sept. 20-21 |
71 |
76 |
79 |
226 |
+10 |
T13 |
| Princeton Invitational |
Sept. 25-26 |
79 |
74 |
79 |
232 |
+16 |
T49 |
| Yale Invitational |
Oct. 9-10 |
81 |
76 |
78 |
235 |
+22 |
T38 |
| St. John’s Invitational |
Oct. 25 |
83 |
-- |
-- |
83 |
+12 |
T45 |
| Columbia Classic |
Feb. 13-14 |
85 |
85 |
85 |
255 |
+39 |
T77 |
| Hoya Invitational |
April 9-10 |
85 |
81 |
84 |
250 |
+34 |
T60 |
2022-23 SEASON
| Tournament Name |
Date |
R1 |
R2 |
R3 |
Total |
To Par |
Finish |
| Nittany Lion Invitational |
Sept. 17-18 |
76 |
75 |
78 |
229 |
+13 |
T46 / 93 |
| Princeton Invitational |
Sept. 24-25 |
77 |
82 |
73 |
232 |
+19 |
T38 / 71 |
| Columbia Classic |
Feb. 11-13 |
76 |
76 |
-- |
152 |
+8 |
T36 / 80 |
| Low Country Intercollegiate |
Mar. 17-19 |
77 |
78 |
-- |
155 |
+11 |
T11 / 105 |
| Clemson Invitational |
Mar. 24-26 |
76 |
80 |
80 |
236 |
+20 |
T70 / 84 |
| St. John's Invitational |
Apr. 10-11 |
73 |
75 |
-- |
148 |
+6 |
T7 / 66 |
| Ivy League Championship |
Apr. 21-23 |
76 |
81 |
78 |
235 |
+19 |
T20 / 28 |
ARTICLES
http://highschoolsports.nj.com/news/article/8176916472681637566/christine-shao-shoots-72-leads-pingry-to-north-jersey-sectional-title/
http://highschoolsports.nj.com/news/article/-772981981266476912/girls-golf-pingry-is-team-of-the-year-2018/
https://www.njsga.org/news/post/christine-shaos-record-tying-66-leads-to-championship-of-63rd-junior-girls
