Friday, May 20
Grayhawk Golf Club / Scottsdale, Ariz.
All Day
University of Georgia
17th (303)
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NCAA Stroke Play - Day 1
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Georgia Begins NCAAs By Shooting 303
May 20, 2022 | Women's Golf
Don leads Dogs on Friday with a 1-over 73
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The Georgia women's golf team posted a 15-over 303 in Friday's opening round of the 2022 NCAA Women's Golf Championships. The Bulldogs are in 17th place in the 24-team field in a tightly bunched pack of 10 teams between eighth and 17th separated by only five strokes.
The Bulldogs played their best late in the round at Grayhawk Golf Club. After covering the first 12 holes at 17-over, Georgia was 2-under the rest of the way.
"Could we just have the final six holes and only count that?" head coach Josh Brewer quipped. "It was a poor start, but we battled and kept ourselves where we have real hope. We finally settled in. Hopefully, we can ride that momentum into rounds two and three, kind of like we did at Regionals. We ended Day One there pretty strong and took off on Day Two and most of Day Three. That's the way we're going to look at it."
Georgia shot 4-under 284 in the second round of last week's Albuquerque Regional to surge to second on the team leaderboard before eventually finishing third to secure a spot in the field in Scottsdale.
"We know we're good enough to play better than we did today," Brewer said. "Now, we'll just get ready for tomorrow."
Caterina Don paced Georgia in the opening round, signing for a 1-over 73. The Bulldogs' additional counting tallies were a 75 from Candice Mahé, a 76 from Jenny Bae and a 79, the tally posted by both LoraLie Cowart and Jo Hua Hung.
"I tried to go out there with no expectations and just play shot-by-shot," Don said. "I've spoken to a mental coach a couple of times over the past few weeks, and I think it worked fine today. There were a couple of mistakes but overall, my long game is getting much better and I'm confident that the next few days I can do something really good."
Georgia teed off from No. 10 and played the back side of the layout first on Friday. Don turned at 1-under. Following a bogey on her first hole, she notched birdies at No. 13 and No. 18 to move into red numbers. Don went double-bogey, bogey on her first two holes after the turn to slip to 2-over but regained one of those strokes with a birdie at No. 7.
"I think the biggest point on this golf course is giving yourself opportunities," Don said. "There are holes where you can have opportunities, and there are holes where if you're out of position you just have to try and get a par or accept stress-free bogeys some times. I think the biggest point is just going out and giving yourself opportunities. If you can do that, some times they're going to fall in."
Stanford sits atop the team and individual leaderboards after Friday's round. Rose Zhang shot 4-under 68 to lead the Cardinal to a 1-over 289. Stanford is three shots ahead of No. 19 Texas A&M. Ten teams shot within 298-303. No. 9 Alabama and No. 11 Southern California are tied for eighth at 298; Mississippi State is 10th at 299; TCU is 11th at 300; No. 4 Wake Forest, No. 16 Baylor, No. 20 Michigan and Purdue all are tied for 12th at 301; No. 7 Arizona State is 16th at 302; and the Bulldogs are 17th at 303.
Individually for Georgia, Don is tied for 18th, Mahé is tied for 45th, Bae is tied for 55th and Cowart and Hung are tied for 100th.
The field will flip tee times for the second round, with the morning wave teams from Friday playing in the afternoon on Saturday and vice versa. Georgia will be paired with Michigan and TCU on Saturday, teeing off from No. 1 between 3:36-4:20 p.m. ET.
Georgia was 2-over as a team on its second nine holes Friday, with Bae shooting 2-under, Mahé at even and Don and Hung both at 2-over. The Bulldogs will tee off on that side of the course in the second round.
"We start with the nine we played best today," Brewer said. "Maybe we continue that and then ride that momentum into the back nine of the golf course. We know it's a long tournament so if you're going to win, you're going to have a stretch you need to survive, and we feel like we've had that stretch and it's behind us. Now, we can just focus on playing our best golf."
The field will be repaired by the 36-hole standings for Sunday's round. After that, a cut will reduce the field to the top-15 teams and the nine low individuals not on advancing teams. That will be followed by a final day stroke play on Monday to determine the top eight teams that will advance to match play as well as the individual national champion. The team national champion will be determined by a match-play format that will consist of quarterfinals and semifinals conducted on Tuesday followed by finals on Wednesday.
Live scoring is available throughout the championships via golfstat.com.
NCAA Women's Golf Championships
Grayhawk Golf Club
Scottsdale, Ariz.
Par 72; 6340 Yards
Friday's First-Round Standings
Team Leaderboard
Stanford 289
Texas A&M 292
UCLA 295
Auburn 296
LSU 296
Florida State 296
Oregon 297
Alabama 298
Southern California 298
Mississippi State 299
TCU 300
Wake Forest 301
Michigan 301
Purdue 301
Baylor 301
Arizona State 302
Georgia 303
Virginia 304
Texas 305
South Carolina 306
Arkansas 307
Oklahoma State 307
San Jose State 307
Vanderbilt 308
Individual Leaderboard
Rose Zhang, Stanford 68
Zoe Slaughter, Texas A&M 69
Sabrina Iqbal, TCU 71
Ty Akabane, UCLA 71
Sadie Englemann, Stanford 71
Anna Morgan, Furman 72
Ashley Lau, Michigan 72
Danielle DuToit, Purdue 72
Hailey Borja, Michigan 72
Brianna Navarrosa, USC 72
Charlotte Heath, Florida State 72
Calynne Rosholt, Arizona State 72
Celina Sattelkau, Vanderbilt 72
Kaleigh Telfer, Auburn 72
Megan Schofill, Auburn 72
Isabella van der Biest, Alabama 72
Tze-Han Lin, Oregon 72
Georgia Scores
T18. Caterina Don 73
T45. Candice Mahé 75
T55. Jenny Bae 76
T100. LoraLie Cowart 79
T100. Jo Hua Hung 79
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The Georgia women's golf team posted a 15-over 303 in Friday's opening round of the 2022 NCAA Women's Golf Championships. The Bulldogs are in 17th place in the 24-team field in a tightly bunched pack of 10 teams between eighth and 17th separated by only five strokes.
The Bulldogs played their best late in the round at Grayhawk Golf Club. After covering the first 12 holes at 17-over, Georgia was 2-under the rest of the way.
"Could we just have the final six holes and only count that?" head coach Josh Brewer quipped. "It was a poor start, but we battled and kept ourselves where we have real hope. We finally settled in. Hopefully, we can ride that momentum into rounds two and three, kind of like we did at Regionals. We ended Day One there pretty strong and took off on Day Two and most of Day Three. That's the way we're going to look at it."
Georgia shot 4-under 284 in the second round of last week's Albuquerque Regional to surge to second on the team leaderboard before eventually finishing third to secure a spot in the field in Scottsdale.
"We know we're good enough to play better than we did today," Brewer said. "Now, we'll just get ready for tomorrow."
Caterina Don paced Georgia in the opening round, signing for a 1-over 73. The Bulldogs' additional counting tallies were a 75 from Candice Mahé, a 76 from Jenny Bae and a 79, the tally posted by both LoraLie Cowart and Jo Hua Hung.
"I tried to go out there with no expectations and just play shot-by-shot," Don said. "I've spoken to a mental coach a couple of times over the past few weeks, and I think it worked fine today. There were a couple of mistakes but overall, my long game is getting much better and I'm confident that the next few days I can do something really good."
Georgia teed off from No. 10 and played the back side of the layout first on Friday. Don turned at 1-under. Following a bogey on her first hole, she notched birdies at No. 13 and No. 18 to move into red numbers. Don went double-bogey, bogey on her first two holes after the turn to slip to 2-over but regained one of those strokes with a birdie at No. 7.
"I think the biggest point on this golf course is giving yourself opportunities," Don said. "There are holes where you can have opportunities, and there are holes where if you're out of position you just have to try and get a par or accept stress-free bogeys some times. I think the biggest point is just going out and giving yourself opportunities. If you can do that, some times they're going to fall in."
Stanford sits atop the team and individual leaderboards after Friday's round. Rose Zhang shot 4-under 68 to lead the Cardinal to a 1-over 289. Stanford is three shots ahead of No. 19 Texas A&M. Ten teams shot within 298-303. No. 9 Alabama and No. 11 Southern California are tied for eighth at 298; Mississippi State is 10th at 299; TCU is 11th at 300; No. 4 Wake Forest, No. 16 Baylor, No. 20 Michigan and Purdue all are tied for 12th at 301; No. 7 Arizona State is 16th at 302; and the Bulldogs are 17th at 303.
Individually for Georgia, Don is tied for 18th, Mahé is tied for 45th, Bae is tied for 55th and Cowart and Hung are tied for 100th.
The field will flip tee times for the second round, with the morning wave teams from Friday playing in the afternoon on Saturday and vice versa. Georgia will be paired with Michigan and TCU on Saturday, teeing off from No. 1 between 3:36-4:20 p.m. ET.
Georgia was 2-over as a team on its second nine holes Friday, with Bae shooting 2-under, Mahé at even and Don and Hung both at 2-over. The Bulldogs will tee off on that side of the course in the second round.
"We start with the nine we played best today," Brewer said. "Maybe we continue that and then ride that momentum into the back nine of the golf course. We know it's a long tournament so if you're going to win, you're going to have a stretch you need to survive, and we feel like we've had that stretch and it's behind us. Now, we can just focus on playing our best golf."
The field will be repaired by the 36-hole standings for Sunday's round. After that, a cut will reduce the field to the top-15 teams and the nine low individuals not on advancing teams. That will be followed by a final day stroke play on Monday to determine the top eight teams that will advance to match play as well as the individual national champion. The team national champion will be determined by a match-play format that will consist of quarterfinals and semifinals conducted on Tuesday followed by finals on Wednesday.
Live scoring is available throughout the championships via golfstat.com.
NCAA Women's Golf Championships
Grayhawk Golf Club
Scottsdale, Ariz.
Par 72; 6340 Yards
Friday's First-Round Standings
Team Leaderboard
Stanford 289
Texas A&M 292
UCLA 295
Auburn 296
LSU 296
Florida State 296
Oregon 297
Alabama 298
Southern California 298
Mississippi State 299
TCU 300
Wake Forest 301
Michigan 301
Purdue 301
Baylor 301
Arizona State 302
Georgia 303
Virginia 304
Texas 305
South Carolina 306
Arkansas 307
Oklahoma State 307
San Jose State 307
Vanderbilt 308
Individual Leaderboard
Rose Zhang, Stanford 68
Zoe Slaughter, Texas A&M 69
Sabrina Iqbal, TCU 71
Ty Akabane, UCLA 71
Sadie Englemann, Stanford 71
Anna Morgan, Furman 72
Ashley Lau, Michigan 72
Danielle DuToit, Purdue 72
Hailey Borja, Michigan 72
Brianna Navarrosa, USC 72
Charlotte Heath, Florida State 72
Calynne Rosholt, Arizona State 72
Celina Sattelkau, Vanderbilt 72
Kaleigh Telfer, Auburn 72
Megan Schofill, Auburn 72
Isabella van der Biest, Alabama 72
Tze-Han Lin, Oregon 72
Georgia Scores
T18. Caterina Don 73
T45. Candice Mahé 75
T55. Jenny Bae 76
T100. LoraLie Cowart 79
T100. Jo Hua Hung 79
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