Penelope Tir

Samantha Yao

/ Women's Golf

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Penelope Tir tees off at the Ivy Intercollegiate, Oct. 10, 2022

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Penelope Tir golfing at Ivy Championship

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Penelope Tir golf action at Prospect Bay

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Oct. 10, 2021; New Haven, Connecticut, USA; during the 2021 Yale Women's Tournament at The Course at Yale. Photo by Foley-Photography.

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Class:
Junior
Height:
5-7
Hometown:
Winnetka, Ill.
High School:
New Trier
Major:
Biomedical Engineering and Biology

WGCA All-American Scholar (2022)
Second Team All-Ivy (2024)

Senior (2023-24): Started the season with a t-5th place finish at the Princeton Invitational, shooting even in the second round and a -3, her best round of the season, in the third round to finish +3 overall... Placed t-6th at the Quinnipiac Invitational... Wrapped the season with a tenth place finish at the Ivy League Championship, shooting a -2 in the third round to help the Big Green to their first ever Ivy League Championship.

Junior (2022-23): In five tournaments, averaged a 77.12 and a +5.60... Had her best performance in her second to last match of the season at the Harvard Invitational, finishing with a 183 (+3), good for t-9th overall.

SOPHOMORE (2021-22)
Named a WGCA All-American Scholar for having a GPA of at least 3.5 … third on the team with a 78.41 stroke average, which ranks among the top 15 all-time at Dartmouth … also sank 40 birdies, third all-time on the Big Green single-season charts, and two eagles, one of just four Dartmouth women’s golfers ever to do so … performed well in collegiate debut, tying for 23rd out of 70 at the Princeton Invitational, ending with a 72 (E) in the final round … had three top-20 finishes, starting with the Sacred Heart Invitational where she tied for 16th out of 69 … finished the year strong, tying for 22nd of 83 at the Prospect Bay Intercollegiate before tying teammate Samantha Yao for 16th at the Ivy League Championship … carded an even-par 72 in the final round to climb nine spots in the standings and helping Dartmouth finish just 10 strokes off the pace as a team.

FRESHMAN (2020-21)
Season canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

HIGH SCHOOL
Led New Trier to the Illinois High School Association AA State Championship by 10 strokes while winning medalist honors as the state champion herself by one stroke with an even-par 144 as a junior in 2017-18 … four-time All-Central Suburban League.

PERSONAL
Born on April 18, 2001 in Chicago, Illinois … daughter of Ty Tir and Stephanie Wang has one brother and two sisters … younger sister Audrey joined the Middlebury women’s golf team in the fall of 2021 … planning on majoring in biomedical engineering for a career in medicine … enjoys swimming, journaling, art, national parks and history museums … took a gap year to move to a different city and work as a lab tech.

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