Central Michigan University Athletics
Monday, September 7
Kewadin, Mich. / A-Ga-Ming Golf Resort
9 a.m. (18 holes)
Central Michigan University
vs
A-Ga-Ming Invitational
Zoe Dull closed with a 3-under 69 to finish in third place Monday at the A-Ga-Ming Invitational. Dull, a sophomore, finished at 1-under 215 for the tournament, tying the program record.
Photo by: Andy Sneddon
Wire-to-Wire: Chippewas Win in a Runaway at A-Ga-Ming
9/7/2026 5:04:00 PM | Women's Golf
Dull ties program 54-hole scoring mark; five Chippewas finish among top 7 as CMU shatters program scoring mark
KEWADIN, Mich. – Not much more that anyone could have asked from the Central Michigan women's golf team.
The Chippewas closed with a 5-over par 293 team score on Monday to capture their annual season-opening A-Ga-Ming Invitational at A-Ga-Ming Golf Resort.
CMU finished with a 4-over 868 to shatter the previous program best, a 23-over 887 at the MAC Challenge in February, 2021.
CMU bettered its previous 18-hole scoring record in Sunday's opening round, when it posted a 5-under 283.
"It was a great way to start the season," fifth-year CMU coach Ryan Williams said. "It's always fun to play good golf and you gain confidence and just kind of start to play a little bit more freely that way, which is awesome."
The Chippewas began Monday's final round in first place, 15 shots ahead of second-place Loyola-Chicago. When the dust settled on Monday, they were 21 strokes clear of runner-up Bowling Green for a wire-to-wire win, their first tournament victory since 2023 and their second A-Ga-Ming title, the first coming in 2021.
"Sleeping on a lead is not easy," Williams said. "And going into a final round with a lead like that, it can be a little nervy. I think we showed (nerves) a little bit early on, or at least kind of through the middle of the round.
"We had some goals that we set for the day. It wasn't just to kind of coast and play conservative and try to hang on. It was, Let's go extend our lead, let's go try to shoot under par for three rounds, let's each one of us have a goal for ourselves and go out and try to get that. I think that helped. I love seeing them put their foot on the gas pedal and keep going. It feels good that we stretched the lead today and finished it off strong."
Incredibly, five Chippewas finished in the top seven.
Sophomore Zoe Dull closed with a 3-under 69 to finish at 1-under 215. Her 69 and her 215 are career bests, and her 3-under 69 is one shy of the program 18-hole record.
Dull's 1-under 215 total equals the program record held by Bria Colosky (2018) and Ashley Goh (2023), who now serves as a graduate assistant with the program.
CMU senior Rachel Niskanen, playing as an individual, posted her second straight 1-under 71 to finish tied for fourth at even-par 216, while Mya Morgan, a freshman playing in her first collegiate event, finished at 1-over 217 after a final-round 73.
The Chippewas' Lexi Schulman, a senior, and Elise Fennell, a junior transfer from Illinois State playing for the first time in maroon and gold, finished tied for seventh at 2-over 218. Schulman shot a 5-over 77 and Fennell posted a 2-over 74 on Monday.
"Our lineup showed that we're really deep," Williams said. "We had everyone play really good golf and that's exciting. We're looking forward to the rest of the year."
Dull, in particular, finished strong, going birdie-eagle-birdie on holes 15-17 in Monday's final round. She then birdied No. 2, her final hole of the day.
Dull made just five bogeys – tying with Fennell for the fewest number in the 81-player field – over her 54 holes in the tournament.
"We've seen steady growth from (Dull) from the end of last season and she showed up this year playing really good golf," Williams said. "She's hitting the ball well. She has a great short game, and when she gets it going, she can make a lot of birdies, and she isn't afraid to do that.
"She played so tough today. Had it going early and then she had a kind of a trip up there in the middle of her round, but she bounced back and put the foot on the gas pedal to finish her round."
Niskanen made three birdies against two bogeys in her final round, and she played A-Ga-Ming's Sundance Course's four par 3s (12 total over three rounds) in a best-in-the-field 2.75 average.
"Rachel played so well this weekend," Williams said. "She's struggled a little bit in the last six to nine months, but she got a bit of a wakeup call and played well this weekend. I love seeing her do that. She's tapping into some potential that she doesn't realize, or didn't realize, she had. She's starting to see that she can shoot low numbers and she needs to do that in order to be competitive and be as successful as she wants to be."
The steady Fennell made a tournament-high 43 pars, Schulman averaged a tourney-best 4.67 on the par 4s, and Morgan was second in the field with a 3.97 average on the par 5s.
Bowling Green's Addison Kartusch claimed medalist honors for the second straight season, closing with a tournament-record 8-under 64 for a 5-under 211 total. She finished three shots ahead of Loyola-Chicago's Grace Hui.
Mother Nature again delivered fabulous weather for the annual event with temperatures in the 70s on the gorgeous layout set between Lake Michigan and Torch Lake north of Traverse City.
"A-Ga-Ming, you can't ask for a better place to be and a better place to start the season," Williams said. "They're so gracious to us here. A couple of Central Michigan alums own the place, and they do a great job up here. The golf course is spectacular and the atmosphere around the tournament is always great because of the people here. Everyone that works here, all the community around it, is so good to us.
"There's a reason why a ton of teams continue to come back up here for this tournament, even if it's not easy travel, they enjoy being up here at A-Ga-Ming, right near Lake Michigan, right near Torch Lake, on Labor Day Weekend. And we're happy that we can host it here. We appreciate them for sure."
The Chippewas closed with a 5-over par 293 team score on Monday to capture their annual season-opening A-Ga-Ming Invitational at A-Ga-Ming Golf Resort.
CMU finished with a 4-over 868 to shatter the previous program best, a 23-over 887 at the MAC Challenge in February, 2021.
CMU bettered its previous 18-hole scoring record in Sunday's opening round, when it posted a 5-under 283.
"It was a great way to start the season," fifth-year CMU coach Ryan Williams said. "It's always fun to play good golf and you gain confidence and just kind of start to play a little bit more freely that way, which is awesome."
The Chippewas began Monday's final round in first place, 15 shots ahead of second-place Loyola-Chicago. When the dust settled on Monday, they were 21 strokes clear of runner-up Bowling Green for a wire-to-wire win, their first tournament victory since 2023 and their second A-Ga-Ming title, the first coming in 2021.
"Sleeping on a lead is not easy," Williams said. "And going into a final round with a lead like that, it can be a little nervy. I think we showed (nerves) a little bit early on, or at least kind of through the middle of the round.
"We had some goals that we set for the day. It wasn't just to kind of coast and play conservative and try to hang on. It was, Let's go extend our lead, let's go try to shoot under par for three rounds, let's each one of us have a goal for ourselves and go out and try to get that. I think that helped. I love seeing them put their foot on the gas pedal and keep going. It feels good that we stretched the lead today and finished it off strong."
Incredibly, five Chippewas finished in the top seven.
Sophomore Zoe Dull closed with a 3-under 69 to finish at 1-under 215. Her 69 and her 215 are career bests, and her 3-under 69 is one shy of the program 18-hole record.
Dull's 1-under 215 total equals the program record held by Bria Colosky (2018) and Ashley Goh (2023), who now serves as a graduate assistant with the program.
CMU senior Rachel Niskanen, playing as an individual, posted her second straight 1-under 71 to finish tied for fourth at even-par 216, while Mya Morgan, a freshman playing in her first collegiate event, finished at 1-over 217 after a final-round 73.
The Chippewas' Lexi Schulman, a senior, and Elise Fennell, a junior transfer from Illinois State playing for the first time in maroon and gold, finished tied for seventh at 2-over 218. Schulman shot a 5-over 77 and Fennell posted a 2-over 74 on Monday.
"Our lineup showed that we're really deep," Williams said. "We had everyone play really good golf and that's exciting. We're looking forward to the rest of the year."
Dull, in particular, finished strong, going birdie-eagle-birdie on holes 15-17 in Monday's final round. She then birdied No. 2, her final hole of the day.
Dull made just five bogeys – tying with Fennell for the fewest number in the 81-player field – over her 54 holes in the tournament.
"We've seen steady growth from (Dull) from the end of last season and she showed up this year playing really good golf," Williams said. "She's hitting the ball well. She has a great short game, and when she gets it going, she can make a lot of birdies, and she isn't afraid to do that.
"She played so tough today. Had it going early and then she had a kind of a trip up there in the middle of her round, but she bounced back and put the foot on the gas pedal to finish her round."
Niskanen made three birdies against two bogeys in her final round, and she played A-Ga-Ming's Sundance Course's four par 3s (12 total over three rounds) in a best-in-the-field 2.75 average.
"Rachel played so well this weekend," Williams said. "She's struggled a little bit in the last six to nine months, but she got a bit of a wakeup call and played well this weekend. I love seeing her do that. She's tapping into some potential that she doesn't realize, or didn't realize, she had. She's starting to see that she can shoot low numbers and she needs to do that in order to be competitive and be as successful as she wants to be."
The steady Fennell made a tournament-high 43 pars, Schulman averaged a tourney-best 4.67 on the par 4s, and Morgan was second in the field with a 3.97 average on the par 5s.
Bowling Green's Addison Kartusch claimed medalist honors for the second straight season, closing with a tournament-record 8-under 64 for a 5-under 211 total. She finished three shots ahead of Loyola-Chicago's Grace Hui.
Mother Nature again delivered fabulous weather for the annual event with temperatures in the 70s on the gorgeous layout set between Lake Michigan and Torch Lake north of Traverse City.
"A-Ga-Ming, you can't ask for a better place to be and a better place to start the season," Williams said. "They're so gracious to us here. A couple of Central Michigan alums own the place, and they do a great job up here. The golf course is spectacular and the atmosphere around the tournament is always great because of the people here. Everyone that works here, all the community around it, is so good to us.
"There's a reason why a ton of teams continue to come back up here for this tournament, even if it's not easy travel, they enjoy being up here at A-Ga-Ming, right near Lake Michigan, right near Torch Lake, on Labor Day Weekend. And we're happy that we can host it here. We appreciate them for sure."
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