Oregon women’s golf remains in 2nd place entering final round of stroke play at NCAA Championship

Oregon is headed to the ultimate spherical of stroke play on the NCAA girls’s golf Championship and in a powerful place for one of many high seeds in match play.

The Geese shot a good par on the day at Grayhawk Golf Membership in Scottsdale, Ariz. to stay in second place, 19 strokes forward of eighth place, the place the 15-team area shall be trimmed following Monday’s last spherical of stroke play.

Briana Chacon, Ching-Tzu Chen and Tze-Han (Heather) Lin every birdied the 18th for UO, which is 9 again of first-place Stanford and 4 forward of third-place Texas A&M..

“Every day we’re attempting to maintain the hammer down, and that’s what we talked about — not giving any photographs away, and actually capitalizing on alternatives on the market,” Oregon coach Derek Radley mentioned in a launch. “Ending robust has been a motto of ours all 12 months. So to complete the best way we did, in type like that, reveals me we’ve bought confidence shifting ahead.”

The 4 Geese whose scores counted Sunday have been 3 over by means of 16 holes earlier than Chen completed her spherical with back-to-back birdies and Chacon and Lin additionally birdied the par-5 18th gap.

Lin made a 40-foot putt to cap the day. She leads the Geese and is tied for second within the area at 2-under 214. Lu, the reigning Pac-12 champion, shot 1-under 71, Chen bought again to even on the day and Chacon shot 2-over on Sunday.

The Geese shall be paired with the Cardinal and Aggies for his or her last spherical of stroke play starting at 11:50 a.m. Monday.

“Naturally the ultimate spherical of stroke play on the nationwide championship is unquestionably essentially the most pressure-packed day,” Radley mentioned. “The purpose is to attempt to separate your self from that minimize line as a lot as attainable, and we’ve achieved that. So tomorrow we’re simply gonna exit and do what we do: play assured and hopefully end this factor off the best manner.”