Three Prepped for NW Arkansas Championship Qualifier

Three student-athletes from the College of Arkansas ladies’s golf group will characterize the Razorbacks within the Monday qualifier of the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship introduced by P&G. Miriam Ayora. Julia Gregg and Ffion Tynan will play tomorrow for an opportunity to maneuver on to the weekend match. Not many collegiate golfers have a chance to compete in an LPGA match of their yard like Arkansas does.

That is the fourth 12 months Arkansas may have three invites to the championship qualifier. Monday’s motion will tee off as early as 1 p.m. for 18 holes of stroke play. The highest two finishers will advance.

Ayora is enjoying in her first qualifier on the NW Arkansas Championship. The junior led the Razorbacks on the Carmel Cup with a thirteenth place end after carding a 222 (72-74-74). Ayora is coming off final season having performed 31 rounds in all 11 occasions, which included two top-10 finishes. The Spaniard achieved a profession low 212 (67-74-71) on the Ally at Outdated Waverly and tied for ninth on the Blessings Collegiate final October.

Gregg is without doubt one of the most veteran golfers on the group, as she is in her senior season and enjoying within the qualifier for the second straight 12 months. The Farmers Branches, Texas native was one in every of two Hogs to seem in all 33 rounds final season and ended the 12 months second on the group in scoring common (73.94) and rounds at par or higher (11). She registered a career-low 210 (72-70-68) finally 12 months’s Cougar Basic, which earned her a career-best sixth place displaying.

Tynan is coming off her freshman season having appeared in six tournaments. The Wales native tallied three rounds at par or higher, together with a low of 70 on the Moon Golf Invitational. Tynan had a profitable summer time of beginner golf, successful the Welsh Girls’s Novice Championship and being one in every of three representatives for Group Wales on the World Novice Group Championship the place she completed in sixty fourth.

Kajal Mistry, who certified into the weekend in 2021, has obtained a sponsor’s exemption this 12 months. Mistry is coming off being tabbed a Golfweek All-American Honorable Point out and All-SEC First Group alternative. The South Africa product led the group in scoring common (73.18) and par or higher rounds (14) and earned her first particular person medalist win on the MountainView Collegiate with a career-low 206 (68-67-71). She represented South Africa on the WATC, ending in twenty eighth.

Mistry, and probably extra pending Monday’s qualifier, will be a part of 5 former Razorbacks presently on the LPGA tour, together with Maria Fassi (2015-19), Stacy Lewis (2004-08), Gaby Lopez (2012-16), Brooke Matthews (2017-21) and Alana Uriell (2014-18).

The NW Arkansas Championship is in its fifteenth 12 months, kicking off tomorrow, Monday, Sept. 19, and operating into Sunday, Sept. 25 on the Pinnacle Nation Membership in Rogers. Official match play is from Sept. 23-25. Extra data on the LPGA occasion could be discovered right here.

COURSE

Pinnacle Nation Membership – Rogers, Ark. – Par 71 – 7,001 yards

LIVE SCORING

www.lpga.com

ARKANSAS TEE TIMES

1:22 p.m. – Ffion Tynan
1:33 p.m. – Miriam Ayora
1:44 p.m. – Julia Gregg

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