Kentucky Women’s Golf Concludes Fall at Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The College of Kentucky girls’s golf crew is again in motion this week, competing on the Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational Oct 17-18. Distinctive to this 12 months, the match will happen on the Governs Membership Golf Course in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a par-72, 6,203-yard observe.

The Wildcats will make their first look again on the golf course since successful the Illini Girls’s Invitational final week, whereas the match will mark their final of the autumn season.

The Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational can be carried out as a 54-hole, stroke-play match, with 36 holes scheduled for a shotgun Monday starting at 9 a.m. ET and 18 holes scheduled for a shotgun Tuesday at 9 a.m. ET.

The sphere options 14 groups, together with two groups in Golfstat’s High 25. The groups are No. 8 Duke, Furman, Kentucky, Louisville, Michigan, Michigan State, host North Carolina, NC State, Princeton, Rollins School, Tennessee, UNCW, Virginia Tech and No. 1 Wake Forest.

Kentucky is coming of its first match championship since Fall 2020, because the Wildcats recorded a school-record, 30-under-par 830 to high the leaderboard on the Illini Girls’s Invitational at Medinah Nation Membership on Oct 10-11. The Cats additionally broke a faculty file for the bottom crew spherical in program historical past with a 13-under-par 275.

Kentucky will sport the identical fivesome from that match championship this week in Laney Frye, Jensen Fortress, Marissa Wenzler, María Villanueva Aperribay and Ivy Shepherd. The Wildcats have used that mixture in all three of its tournaments up to now this season.

Simply 5 days in the past, Fortress, a senior from West Columbia, South Carolina, put collectively the second-best, 54-hole match whole of her profession on an 11-under-par 205 to earn a share of fourth place. Fortress has paced the lineup within the final two tournaments, averaging a powerful 69.7 scoring common throughout that stretch. 5 of these six rounds have been par-or-better, together with her final 4 straight rounds.

There may be little separation between Fortress and Frye, as each Cats are performing on the high of their sport this season. Frye, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky, has a 70.5 scoring common via 9 rounds in 2022-23. She is coming off a career-best, 54-hole match whole on a 10-under-par 206 to tie for seventh place on the Illini Girls’s Invitational. It marked the second match this fall that she has strung collectively three rounds of par-or-better, whereas it is usually the second top-10 end of the autumn.

Wenzler, who’s second within the lineup for the second straight match, has gotten higher with every match, significantly within the newest occasion. The senior from Dayton, Ohio, who’s taking part in on the high of her sport, pieced collectively rounds of 68, a profession greatest, 69 and 71 final week, taking part in a significant function in Kentucky’s match championship. She scored an 8-under-par 208, a profession greatest, whereas it marked the primary match whole below par of her profession – via 28 rounds in additional than three seasons.

María Villanueva Aperribay and Ivy Shepherd will anchor the lineup, with Villanueva Aperribay coming off her first 54-hole match whole below par in two seasons and Shepherd ending with a season-best, even par on the occasion. The pair each improved their scoring averages by nearly an entire stroke after their most up-to-date profitable run on the Illini Girls’s Invitational, to the 73.5 and 73.6, respectively.

This can mark the Cats’ seventh all-time look on the Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational, with their first look occurring in 2007-08. Its greatest end on the occasion got here simply final season, when Kentucky completed in a tie for fifth place on a 1-under-par 863.

The forecast exhibits a slight likelihood of showers and thunderstorms for Monday, nevertheless sunny skies and a excessive of 55 levels for Tuesday.