Eva Pett, who grew up in Denver, claims individual title at Causeway Invite, while CU women earn a team crown for 2nd time this season
By Gary Baines – 2/24/2026
The Causeway Invitational that concluded on Tuesday in Sacramento, Calif., proved quite a boon for golfers with significant connections to Colorado.
Eva Pett, who grew up in Denver and helped lead Colorado Academy to the 3A state high school team title in 2019, claimed the individual victory at the Causeway, prevailing by four strokes.
And the University of Colorado women earned the team win — their second of the season.
Pett, a senior at the University of San Francisco, chalked up the second individual victory of her college career but her first outright win as she tied for first in the 2024 Clash at Boulder Creek. She was also in a playoff at the 2025 West Coast Conference Championship, but lost to Fresno State’s Vunnisa Vu in a sudden-death playoff.
This week, Pett went 73-67-69 for a 7-under-par total. She made 10 birdies and three bogeys overall for the three-round tournament which featured 64 players.
Pett, who’s ranked No 186 in the nation individually in NCAA DI women’s golf, now has three top-10 finishes this season.
The CU women have at least two team wins in a season for the first time since 2011-12. (Photo: @CUBuffsWGolf on X)
Meanwhile, the CU women’s squad, which went eight years without a team victory before capturing a title in September, needed only another five months to add a second team win. It’s the second title for the Buffs since Madeleine Sheils became head coach in 2024. This marks the first time since 2011-12 that CU has notched more than one team victory in a season.
The Buffs, ranked No. 47 in the nation among NCAA Division I women’s teams, finished at even par for 54 holes, four strokes ahead of runner-up UC Davis in the 10-school field.
Two CU players were among those tied for second place individually at 3 under par, four behind Pett: sophomore Ellen O’Shaughnessy from Ireland and freshman Teemapat Pateetin from Thailand. It was Pateetin’s best college finish and it tied for O’Shaughnessy’s top college performance.
O’Shaughnessy went 71-70-72 for the week, while Pateetin posted scores of 69-73-71.
For all the scores from the Causeway Invitational, CLICK HERE.
About the Writer: Gary Baines has covered golf in Colorado continuously since 1983. He was a sports writer at the Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, then the sports editor there, and has written regularly for ColoradoGolf.org since 2009. The University of Colorado Evans Scholar alum was inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame in 2022. He owns and operates ColoradoGolfJournal.com