Women’s team update:
https://x.com/uvawomensgolf/status/1924625075170361448?s=46&t=vkjgQUekzGC7z44tIfnIRQ
UVA women advance to match play.
https://x.com/uvawomensgolf/status/1924628557470249041?s=46&t=vkjgQUekzGC7z44tIfnIRQ
Great season for the Lady Hoos!!!
30 teams started at Nationals and the Hoos get to the quarterfinals!!!
Would be the biggest upset almost in sports history to beat Stanford today in match play.
Stanford finished 21 strokes ahead of 2nd place Oregon and 42 strokes ahead of Virginia in the 4 rounds of stroke play.
But Hoo knows!?!?
The men start 4 rounds of stroke play on Friday - same format - top 8 of 30 advance to match play.
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Actually had a chance - Kennedy Swedick was 3up with 5 holes left and then lost the next 4 holes to lose 1up.
If she had hung on it would have come down to Amanda Sambach who was tied with 3 holes left when Stanford clinched…
Great Effort and Season for the Hoos!!!
Men start on Friday!!
Props to Jaclyn LaHa for getting the lone individual win of the day at 3&2.
NCAA Men’s golf championship starts today:
https://x.com/uvamensgolf/status/1925875229751980098?s=46&t=vkjgQUekzGC7z44tIfnIRQ
Ben James (-1) only Hoo holding up under pressure today - the team will have to mount an epic comeback in the next 2 rounds to make it to match play…
17 shots back of the leaders after Round 1
They actually have two more rounds before it’s cut to 15.
Then a fourth round to cut to 8 for match play.
They’ve shown they can bounce back, so fingers crossed they put down a good one Saturday to get to that top 15-ish level going into the third round Sunday.
Hoos move up to 11th with -1 for the round, Cal still on the course, 1 shot ahead of them, and +8 for the day. So will end up 11th or 10th going into round 3.
IF they play the way they can over the next 2 days, they have a great shot at making match play.
up to 7th in the third round, 1 shot up on FSU and Pepperdine in 8th.
Need to close strong in the last 4-5 holes for some cushion in the top 8 tomorrow
https://scoreboard.clippd.com/tournaments/236552/scoring/team
Unfortunately a bad finish .. still looking good to make cut to 15 teams for final round of stroke play tomorrow but currently sitting four strokes behind Florida State for eighth place. Ideally they need to get above eighth place so they don’t have to play match play against number one Auburn…. That’s what happened to the ladies as they got into eighth place and then had to play the number one team in the country right away. - Stanford.
But hey - get into match play and you never know
Would be huge if the Texas schools can have a poor back 9 today
Crazy finish by teams all around the Hoos … will make for an exciting Memorial Day of golf as only the top 8 advance to Match Play…
Here are the standings. 7 teams within 3 strokes of the last spot…
Unfortunately we went the wrong way in the last few holes, but we’ll see which teams can handle the pressure tomorrow.
Hoos are done with their 72 holes - currently in 9th - gonna need some misses by Ole Miss and/or Florida State in their last 2 holes.
The putt that gave the Hoos a chance:
https://x.com/UVAMensGolf/status/1927148950483599870/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1927148950483599870¤tTweetUser=UVAMensGolf
The other huge putt on his 72nd hole!
https://x.com/UVAMensGolf/status/1927143612250300684
They finish 7th. Auburn/Ari St fighting for 1st.