Ladies about to tee off at national championship

[615dawg]

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3 rounds, top 15 teams make the cut.
After fourth round, top 8 advance to match play.

Here's to playing 126 holes over the next few days.

 

[TimberBeast]

I hope so, I hate the early start but they played their practice round yesterday at about the same time.

 

[RBcoach]

- 1 after the first hole!

 

[615dawg]

-2 after 2. We are in first place at the natty!

 

[615dawg]

We are -3 at the turn. In 4th place and only two strokes behind the lead.

 

[615dawg]

-5 through 13 and in sole possession of first

 

[Dawgbite]

About half the field hasn’t even teed off yet. Vandy is currently in last.

 

[eckie1]

About half the field hasn’t even teed off yet. Vandy is currently in last.

 

[Dawgbite]

Currently tied for third at -1. Leader is -6.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

Currently tied for third at -1. Leader is -6.

Need a strongly worded email from salmon, we don't need to lose this.

 

[GloryDawg]

Here's to playing 126 holes over the next few days.

 

[TimberBeast]

We're in 4th now at even. We need to get under and stay there, there are ALOT of very good teams that haven't started yet.

 

[She Mate Me]

Gotta let it play out, but it seems to be a solid start

 

[TimberBeast]

Finished at -1, definitely a very good start.

 

[615dawg]

Struggled toward the end but not a bad start. The goal is to be in the top 8 after four rounds and we are fourth

 

[QuaoarsKing]

We don't tee off until 2:22 PM. But a couple of the teams who were in front us have started already and dropped below us. Currently tied for 6th.

Team - NCAA DI Women's Championship - Stroke - 2024-05-17

 

[QuaoarsKing]

Now tied for 4th about halfway through the course.

 

[QuaoarsKing]

Not a great second half of the day. Down to 12th place and +8.

Need to stay in the top 15 tomorrow, and then get back into the top 8 on Monday.

 

[Dawgg]

Brutal end

 

[ClintonInHelen]

They hit it…

 

[QuaoarsKing]

Not looking great. +4 on the day so far to fall to 14th. Even if we do manage to hang on, we're 6 strokes out of 8th place.

 

[Shmuley]

Not a great second half of the day. Down to 12th place and +8.

Need to stay in the top 15 tomorrow, and then get back into the top 8 on Monday.

Baseball style collapse at the end of the round yesterday.

 

[She Mate Me]

Not looking great. +4 on the day so far to fall to 14th. Even if we do manage to hang on, we're 6 strokes out of 8th place.

Pretty similar to what we did last year I think.

Good enough to squeak into the Top 15 (maybe), but not Elite 8 level.

Many worse places to be.

 

[QuaoarsKing]

And we've fallen out of the top 15.

However, there are a few teams now ahead of us who haven't teed off yet, and most teams are above par today, so it's not hopeless yet to make the top 15. Probably a big longshot to make the top 8 on Monday though.

We came into the tournament ranked in the 20s though, so I wouldn't be too hard on the team. Even at 16th place, they're overperforming a bit relative to their ranking.

 

[QuaoarsKing]

And we've fallen out of the top 15.

However, there are a few teams now ahead of us who haven't teed off yet, and most teams are above par today, so it's not hopeless yet to make the top 15. Probably a big longshot to make the top 8 on Monday though.

We came into the tournament ranked in the 20s though, so I wouldn't be too hard on the team. Even at 16th place, they're overperforming a bit relative to their ranking.

And just like, a pair of birdies brings us back to 11th! The national title run is BACK ON!

EDIT: And another one brings us to sole possession of 11th, only one 3 strokes behind 8th. Maybe they saw my skepticism in the previous post and decided to make me look like a clown.

 

[She Mate Me]

And just like, a pair of birdies brings us back to 11th! The national title run is BACK ON!

EDIT: And another one brings us to sole possession of 11th, only one 3 strokes behind 8th. Maybe they saw my skepticism in the previous post and decided to make me look like a clown.

I'm focused on how close we are to 8th stroke wise. That's the key vs place. Just need to be in striking distance if we get to tomorrow.

 

[She Mate Me]

Not to pick on an individual, but I thought Horder would be a difference maker this year coming in off a British Amateur championship.

It just hasn't happened very often for her. She's got two triples already today and shot 43 on the back. No help at all.

Also brutal that Julia doubled both 17 and 18.

 

[She Mate Me]

3 more birdies and suddenly State is +11 for solo 10th. One stroke out of 8th place.

Playing the front well so far, but it's tenuous because Horder means nothing at this point so the pressure is on the other 4 girls not to leak oil coming in.

 

[615dawg]

Moved into a tie for 8th.
Defending national champion Wake having a meltdown.

 

[QuaoarsKing]

The least favorite part about that site is how birdies are red and bogeys are green. Is that a golf standard or something? I keep seeing red and at first thinking it's bad, but actually it's good, and vice-versa.

 

[She Mate Me]

The least favorite part about that site is how birdies are red and bogeys are green. Is that a golf standard or something? I keep seeing red and at first thinking it's bad, but actually it's good, and vice-versa.

Yes, red generally denotes under par.

Unfortunately we just posted 3 green bogies to go to +14.

 

[QuaoarsKing]

a bogey and 2 double bogeys drops us down to 20th place

 

[She Mate Me]

And, put a fork in them. Two doubles and 4 other bogies and they drop 8 strokes in the span of about 30 minutes.

 

[Dawgg]

Welp. Rough weekend for our women’s sports teams.

 

[QuaoarsKing]

Our best hope is that the teams ahead of us just now teeing off will drop below us. It's actually pretty likely, given that most teams who are done are almost done are around +10 for the day. We'll need a heroic day tomorrow to get into the top 8 though.

 

[She Mate Me]

Our best hope is that the teams ahead of us just now teeing off will drop below us. It's actually pretty likely, given that most teams who are done are almost done are around +10 for the day. We'll need a heroic day tomorrow to get into the top 8 though.

I think they still have a chance to make the Top 15, but the late implosion is going to cost them any opportunity to compete for a match play spot. They had it right in front of them and just couldn't hold it together those last few holes. Two days in a row.

 

[QuaoarsKing]

Our #2, 3, and golfers lost 11 strokes on the last 4 holes. That's the difference in 22nd place and 7th place, over the last 4 holes.

 

[QuaoarsKing]

So we finish +13 today and +21 overall over 3 days.

We are tied for 20th, with 19 teams in front of us, and 2 more tied with us. 11 of the teams in front of us, and 1 tied with us, have finished for the day. The other 9 have barely started for the day. We need no more than 3 of them in front of us by the end of the day, so 6 tied or below us. I actually think that's pretty likely, just looking at how the scores are going, but we'll see.

 

[615dawg]

Looks like we will have a good opportunity to advance to tomorrow but getting to the top 8 is going to take -3 or better. We shot -1 day one.

 

[She Mate Me]

So we finish +13 today and +21 overall over 3 days.

We are tied for 20th, with 19 teams in front of us, and 2 more tied with us. 11 of the teams in front of us, and 1 tied with us, have finished for the day. The other 9 have barely started for the day. We need no more than 3 of them in front of us by the end of the day, so 6 tied or below us. I actually think that's pretty likely, just looking at how the scores are going, but we'll see.

As tough as it's playing it seems kinda likely we'll still end up Top 15.

The field was broken in half with the best 15 two day scores playing this morning. Very unlikely any of these afternoon teams, the bottom 15, are going to shoot anything near par.