The ASU women’s golf team finished in 13th as a team at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate on Sunday shooting a 55-over 90 over three rounds in Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Senior Noemi Jimenez led the team with her best performance of the semester so far shooting a 3-over 216 placing in fifth. In her first time playing from the No. 2 spot this season, Jimenez had the best score on the team in each round shooting 71 (E) in the first, 72 (+1) in the second and 73 (+2) in the final round. This is Jimenez’s third top-10 finish of the season, the first of the spring.
The 13th place finish as a team is the worst for the Sun Devils this season and the first time they did not place inside the top-10 since their first tournament of the year, the ANNIKA Invitational, back in September where they finished in 11th place.
Sophomore Monica Vaughn, playing from the first spot for the first time in her career, struggled in South Carolina and finished in 44th place shooting a 14-over 227. She particularly had trouble in the second round shooting seven bogeys along with a double-bogey against just one birdie to shoot an 8-over 79.
Vaughn had placed in the top-10 in both tournaments since the Stanford Intercollegiate October including a top-5 finish last time out at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge.
The team’s other senior, Emilie Alonso, shot 10-over in the first round and then 8-over in both the second and third rounds for her worst finish of the season, shooting 26-over to finish just inside the top-80.
Freshmen Roberta Liti and Sophia Zeeb finished in 70th and 64th place respectively with scores of 22-over and 18-over.
Freshman Ashleigh Greenham, competing in just her second event as a Sun Devil, played as an individual in South Carolina. The trip probably did not go as well as she would have hoped as she shot a 10-over in her first and last rounds and an 11-over in the second for a total 31-over.
Duke’s Leona Maguire, Golfweek’s top rated collegiate woman golfer, took home the individual title after tying LSU’s Madelene Sagstrom with a 6-under 207 and winning the playoff by birdieing on the 18th hole.
Duke also took home the team title shooting a 6-over 658 beating second place LSU by nine strokes.
There isn’t much time for the Sun Devils to move past this event, as they will be right back in action again starting this Friday for the 2015 Clover Cup at the Longbow Golf Club in Mesa, Arizona.
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