After giving the NCAA Women's Championship a compelling hometown story at Eugene Country Club, Caroline Inglis will try to add some home-state flavor to the Cambia Portland Classic.

Inglis, a graduate of Eugene's Churchill High School who completed her career at Oregon by helping the Ducks reach match play in the NCAAs, will play in the Portland Classic's Monday qualifier at Columbia Edgewater Country Club.

Inglis, who has turned professional, will be one of 21 golfers trying to earn one of the two available spots in the LPGA Tour event's field. The 72-hole Portland Classic starts Thursday.

If she can qualify, Inglis would become the first University of Oregon golfer to play in the Portland Classic since Cathryn Bristow in 2010. It would be the second year in a row that Inglis added an instate touch to a national event in the Portland area. Last year, she competed in the U.S. Women's Amateur at Portland Golf Club, where she reached the round of 16 in match play.

Several other golfers from Oregon high schools have played in the Portland Classic in the last 15 years, led by Allison Hanna, a David Douglas High School graduated who as an LPGA Tour member appeared in the tournament nine years in a row, the last in 2013, before she started a career as a financial planner.

Other Oregon prep standouts earned their way into the Portland Classic, including Beaverton High graduate Gigi Stoll, who played the last two years after winning the tournament's annual amateur qualifier. She followed Ashlee Pickerell from West Salem High (2010) and Rebecca Kim from Tigard High (2005) in winning the amateur qualifer.

Also, Lake Oswego High graduate Amy Beth Simanton played in the 2010 Portland Classic after getting in via the Monday qualifier. She got into the Monday qualifier by finishing second in the amateur qualifier.

Inglis' competition will include amateur Sydney Maluenda, a senior-to-be at George Fox who finished runner-up in the amateur qualifier. Also in the field is Bend resident Tara McLay-Kidd, formerly known as Tara Dayer-Smith. She is married to famed golf course architect David McLay Kidd, who designed the original Bandon Dunes course, as well as Tetherow in Bend, where Tara plays out of.

-- Mike Tokito

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