Joy Chou

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Wolverine Invitational

3rd/15

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Schooner Fall Classic

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Windy City Classic

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Stanford Intercollegiate

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Puerto Rico Classic

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Texas Golf Throwdown

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The Chevron Collegiate

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MountainView Collegiate

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Wyoming Cowgirl Classic

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Therese Hession Buckeye Invitational

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Athlete name competing in Round 3 of the 2021 Big 12 Women's Golf Championship April 20 at the Club at Carlton Woods in The Woodlands, Texas.

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Athlete name competing in Round 1 of the 2021 Big 12 Women's Golf Championship on April 18 at Carlton Woods Golf Course in The Woodlands, Texas.

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Iowa State SO Joy Chou competing Round 2 of the 2019 Big 12 Women's Golf Championship at the Golf Club of Oklahoma in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma on Monday, April 15, 2019

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Class:
Sophomore
High School:
Nanhu Municipal
Hometown:
Taipei, Taiwan

Awards & Honors
Two-Time Iowa Women's Amateur Champion (2020, 2021)
U.S. Women's Open Participant (2023)

2020-21
First-Team Academic All-Big 12 ... fourth on the team in stroke average at 74.73 ... led the Cyclones in stroke average in the fall at 73.78 ... also had a team-best 89 birdies ... tied for 24th at the Big 12 Championship (220) ... carded a season-low 69 at the Betsy Rawls Invite ... led the team at the Sooner Schooner Invite, finishing 11th behind a pair of 70s.

2019-20
Third on the team in stroke average at 74.65 ... third on the team with 53 birdies ... tied for 17th at the Dick McGuire Invitational with rounds of 70-77-71 (218) ... defeated E. Lauterbach 5&3 to help the Cyclones to victory at the East & West Match Play.

2018-19
Second-Team Academic All-Big 12 ... second on the team in stroke average (74.50) and rounds in the 60s (2) ... third on the team with 88 birdies ... tied for 23rd at the Dick McGuire Invite with a 219 ... tied for 27th at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic (223) ... set a school record with an 8-under 64 in the final round of the MountainView Collegiate to help her record her first career top-10 finish (T2nd) and break the school’s 54-hole scoring mark (208) ... had six birdies, an eagle and no bogies on her record-breaking card ... tied for 28th at the NCAA Cle Elum Regional with rounds of 74-77-69 (220).

2017-18
Played in seven tournaments, compiling a 77.72 stroke average ... tied for 44th at the UCF Challenge (225) ... tied for 32nd for her best season finish at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic (232).

High School
One of the most accomplished junior golfers in Taiwan … won the Hong Kong Junior Open Championship and was runner-up medalist at the Mercedes Benz Junior Championship in 2016 … tied for fourth at the 2016 Hong Kong Ladies Amateur and claimed the title at the Yeangder National Amateur Open.

Personal
Born March 14, 1999 … daughter of Chih-Yuan Chou and Sui-Chen Lin … has two younger siblings: Bobby and Ruby … sister, Ruby, is a member of the Iowa State golf team ... enjoys cooking, traveling and swimming … fluent in three languages: Mandarin, Taiwanese and English … child, adult and family services major.

Joy Chou