Augusta, GA
No. 2 Wake Forest Set to Conclude Regular Season at Valspar Augusta Invitational – Wake Forest University Athletics
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The No. 2 Wake Forest girls’s golf crew will wrap up their common season Saturday, March 11-Sunday, March 12 on the Valspar Augusta Invitational, hosted by Augusta, at Forest Hills Golf Membership.
Prime Two
Wake Forest has been ranked second within the nation for the reason that begin of the autumn season and spent one week at No. 1 within the fall. The Deacs have gained 4 of the eight crew tournaments and completed in second place in three extra. The one occasion to date this 12 months the Deacs haven’t gained or completed in second was the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate (DRI), the place they nonetheless positioned within the high 5, ending in fourth.
4 Demon Deacons are presently inside the highest 30 girls’s collegiate gamers in accordance with Golfstat, with Rachel Kuehn and Lauren Walsh each in high 10, at sixth and tenth respectively. Emilia Migliaccio and Carolina Chacarra are twenty first and twenty sixth.
The Roster’s Final Time Out
On the DRI, Wake Forest led all groups in scoring on par-four holes, going +18 on the 33 par-four holes over the three-day occasion. Wake additionally led the sector in pars, with 196 recorded throughout all 5 gamers over the 54 holes. Rachel Kuehn led all people in scoring on par-five holes, going three-under throughout the 9 par-five holes all through the occasion. Lauren Walsh was second in scoring on par-three holes, going two beneath throughout the 12 par-three holes over the three days.
Wake Forest was paced by graduate Emilia Migliaccio within the last spherical, as she recorded the lowest-18 gap rating of the day among the many 90-player subject. Her first 9 holes included two birdies and a bogey to place her at one beneath on the flip. She completed the day with three birdies on her second 9 holes to go 4 beneath on the day. She had back-to-back birdies on 12 and 13 and birdied the par-three seventeenth earlier than ending the event with a par on 18. That is the veteran’s fourth top-10 end of the season.
Kuehn completed inside the highest 25 for the eighth time this season. After 9 straight pars to begin the day, she recorded back-to-back birdies on 14 and 15 to stability three bogeys on her second 9. She completed one over on the day and 5 over par for the occasion.
Walsh and Mimi Rhodes every completed six over for the occasion. Rhodes had her finest spherical on the ultimate day, going even par with only one bogey to finish her first 9 and a birdie on 11 to get her again. She completed the day with seven straight pars for her third top-25 end of the 12 months. Walsh completed 4 over for the ultimate spherical and now has seven top-25 finishes this season.
Carolina Chacarra went three over within the last spherical to complete seven over par and in a tie for thirtieth. She has six different high 20 finishes this season with yet another common season occasion earlier than Atlantic Coast Convention Championships start April 13.
The Valspar will start with a shotgun begin at 7:45 a.m. ET on Saturday with steady play into the second spherical. Sunday’s last spherical will start with a shotgun begin at 9 a.m.
Wake Forest lineup
- Emilia Migliaccio
- Rachel Kuehn
- Lauren Walsh
- Mimi Rhodes
- Carolina Chacarra
Freshman Anne-sterre den Dunnen shall be enjoying as a person.
Collaborating Groups (GolfStat Prime 25 Rating)
Wake Forest (2)
Augusta – host
Alabama
Coastal Carolina
Duke (24)
Florida (21)
Florida State (12)
Furman
Georgia Southern
Minnesota
Oklahoma State (16)
Ole Miss (18)
USF
Virginia Tech
Course Info
- Forest Hills Golf Membership – Augusta, Ga.
- Par 72 – 6,244 yards
- Established in 1926, Augusta College’s Forest Hills is a much-loved staple inside the Augusta, Georgia golf group. This 18-hole course holds exceptional historical past from Bobby Jones’ starting. The course was initially designed by world famend course architect Donald Ross and was renovated by the Arnold Palmer Firm in 2003. Forest Hills is dwelling to the Males’s and Girls’s Jaguar Golf Groups and have become part of historical past once more when the lads’s crew efficiently defended their 2010 NCAA Division I Nationwide Title to earn their second consecutive Nationwide Championship in 2011.
Format
The occasion shall be performed over two days, with two rounds of 18-hole stroke play on Saturday and the ultimate spherical on Sunday. Dwell scoring is on the market by way of GolfStat and outcomes shall be posted on GoDeacs.com on the conclusion of every spherical.