2017 Little Rock Golf Classic
Diamante Golf Club | Hot Springs Village, Ark.
Result: Little Rock posts an 18-over 306, is tied for 10th
Round Two: Monday, Oct. 30 | 9:00 a.m. tee times
HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE, Ark. – Little Rock opened its host tournament with an 18-over 306 over the opening round, sitting tied for 10th after 18 holes at the Little Rock Golf Classic.
Little Rock Golf Classic Round One Results
That effort was led by a 1-over 73 from junior
Emelie Blennow, who is tied for seventh in the individual standings after round one. Blennow opened the tournament with pars on her first 13 holes, broken up by a bogey on hole 14. After pars on 15 and 16, Blennow birdied the par-four 17th to draw even on the day before bogeying the 18th.
Senior
Sabrina Bonanno posted a 4-over 76 in round one, shooting a 2-over 38 on both the front and back nine, and is tied for 23rd. Bonanno is one shot better than sophomore
Thea Wakeford-Wesmann, who finished with a 5-over 77 and is tied for 29th.
Senior
Pernille Orlien registered an 8-over 80 in round one with junior
Lucy Owen rounding out the Little Rock scorecard with a 13-over 85.
While sitting further down the team leaderboard than they would like, Little Rock has a chance to make a run in round two as just five shots separate 10 teams. The Trojans are tied with Oral Roberts in 10th, two shots ahead of 12th-place Arkansas State (20-over 308) and one shot behind ninth-place Stephen F. Austin (17-over 305).
Sam Houston State holds the team lead at 10-over 298, three shots better than both Jacksonville State and Missouri State (13-over 301). Central Arkansas (14-over 302) is fourth with both Houston Baptist and UTEP (15-over 303) tied for fifth and Utah Valley and UT Arlington (16-over 304) knotted up in a seventh-place tie.
The teams are hopeful round two will get underway without an hour-long frost delay, which altered the start times in round one as temperatures overnight were in the upper 20s. Little Rock will play with Oral Roberts and Arkansas State in the second round pairings, teeing off from 10:40 to 11:20 from hole 10. Live scoring of the Little Rock Golf Classic is available at
Golfstat.com.
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