Five Things to Know: Wisconsin tees off spring campaign in Arizona

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Five Things to Know: Wisconsin tees off spring campaign in Arizona

February 06, 2026 | Women's Golf

Brody, Slocum, Stricker, Wu and Siehl set to start

By: Charlie Parent

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin women's golf team tees off the 2026 Spring Season in the Arizona Thunderbird Intercollegiate on Monday at the Tucson Country Club in Arizona.

Five Badgers will start in the lineup, including Kate Brody, Grace Slocum, Izzi Stricker, Tammy Wu and Alexia Siehl.

Fans can follow the action on Instagram and X @BadgerWGolf, or track live results on Scoreboard.

Here are five things to know.

1. A LOOK BACK: The Badgers earned top-10 team finishes at 3-of-5 events this past fall, and were in the top half of the field in two. UW began the campaign with a ninth-place finish at the Wolverine Invitational, beating six other teams. Bucky followed that up by coming in seventh on home soil, firing a +21 team score at September's Badger Invitational. Wisconsin then took trips down to Illinois and Oklahoma, before finishing the season in seventh at the Route 66 Invitational.

2. STRICKER'S STATE: Sophomore Izzi Stricker earned some hardware over the offseason after being named the 2025 Wisconsin State Golf Association Amateur Golfer of the Year Award. The Waunakee native was the first Badger to win the award since Emily Lauterbach in 2022. She earned the honor after two victories on the summer amateur circuit, one coming at the Wisconsin Women's Amateur and the other in the Wisconsin Match Play Championship.

Stricker used that momentum in the fall campaign, starting for the Badgers in three tournaments. She was key to the top-10 finish at the Route 66 Invitational, being the team's second-highest finisher in 20th at +5. More recently, the Waunakee native played with her father Steve Stricker – longtime PGA Tour veteran and current PGA Tour – at the PNC Championship in December. The duo finished fourth in a star-studded field featuring the likes of Nelly Korda, Matt Kuchar, John Daly, Gary Woodland and Vijay Singh, among others.

3. AMONG THE NATION'S BEST: Junior Kate Brody is in fine form coming into Monday's tournament after being UW's top finisher in qualifying. A native of Grand Blanc, Michigan, Brody also tied for 11th in the prestigious Patriot All-America on Dec. 29-31. She shot +2, overall, in the three-round event, posting 70 in her last two rounds to get under the card. The Patriot features some of the nation's top college golfers, including Brody, who was the Big Ten's third-highest finisher.

4. TAMMY'S TIME: Redshirt junior Tammy Wu tees it up for her first spring campaign at UW following a strong start in the fall. She was Wisconsin's top finisher in three-of-five events during the fall, pacing Wisconsin at the Route 66 Invitational, Illini Invitational and Schooner Fall Classic. Wu earned her career-best tournament score, and first ever top-10 finish, at the Schooner Fall Classic after going -4, overall. She came in 11th at the Route 66 Invitational at +2, and led Bucky in 28th, going -2 at the Illini Invitational.

5. THAT TIME AGAIN: Wisconsin jumps right into an action-packed spring with another trip to Arizona on Feb. 22, this time to host the Westbrook Invitational in Peoria. The Badgers finished fourth at last year's Westbrook, going -10.

They then get a week off before heading east to the Shootout at Wachesaw in South Carolina, hosted by Purdue. UW will hit Arizona for the third-time on March 20 for Missouri's Mountain View Collegiate in Tucson. Bucky wraps up the regular season with back-to-back Big Ten showdowns in April: The Terrapin Invitational in Maryland on April 5, and the Boilermaker Spring Classic in Indiana on April 12. Wisconsin will then ultimately travel to Glendale, California, for the 2026 Big Ten Championships at the Oakmont Country Club. UW finished sixth at last season's Big Tens, led by Kate Brody's runner-up performance.