Texas Women’s Golf Has Ground to Make up at Nationals

The Texas Longhorns have been in nineteenth place after the primary spherical of the NCAA Girls’s Golf Championships at Grayhawk Golf Membership in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Friday.

Texas shot a 17-over-par 305, leaving them 16 pictures behind front-running Stanford, which shot a 1-over-par. Extra importantly for Texas, they’re 4 pictures out of a tie for twelfth place at 13-over-par held by 4 groups — Wake Forest, Michigan, Purdue and Massive 12 rival Baylor.

The rationale that’s vital is as a result of after the third spherical on Sunday the match makes its first reduce — the highest 15 groups out of the 24 within the discipline and 9 people not on an advancing workforce will advance to the subsequent stage.

That subsequent stage is a fourth spherical of stroke play on Monday. At that time stroke play ends and the highest eight groups advance to match play.

So, Texas has some floor to make up. In the meantime, fellow Massive 12 rivals are additionally enjoying. TCU completed eleventh, Baylor completed in a tie for twelfth and Oklahoma State was in a tie for twenty first.

Brigitte Thibault shot 75, whereas Bohyun Park shot a 76. Sara Kouskova and Sophie Guo every shot a 77 and Bentley Cotton shot a 78.

The workforce nationwide champion is topped by means of match-play format with groups seeded 1-8 based mostly on stroke play outcomes. The quarterfinals and semifinals happen Tuesday, whereas the championship match is scheduled for Wednesday.

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