Women's Golf Eighth at End of Day One at Florida State

Saturday, February 29

Panama City, Fla.

8 am (ET)

University of Memphis

Florida State Matchup

Photo by: Joe Murphy

Women's Golf Eighth at End of Day One at Florida State

Feb 29, 2020 | Women's Golf

Florida State Day One

By: Tammy DeGroff

Third Round Tee Times

Memphis is tied with Missouri for eighth at the end of day one of the Florida State Matchup at Bay Point Golf Club. Memphis carded a 321 and 311 to end day one with a 632. With three golfers in the top six, LSU leads the team event with a 592.

Memphis Scores
T16 – Victoria Gallegos – 154 (78-76) +10
T27 – Victoria England – 157 (78-79) +13
T35 – Ana Dawson – 159 (82-77) +15
42 – Brooke Veres – 162 (83-79) +18
T48 – Julia Matzat – 164 (83-81) +20

The Individual Race
LSU's Ingrid Lindblad is the lone individual with a score under par at the end of 36 holes. She opened with a 71 and followed with a second round 72 to end day one at 143, a four stroke lead over Beatrice Wallin from host Florida State.

Stories From the Top Five
LSU and host Florida State both have a pair of individual golfers in the top five. Beatrice Wallin is second at 147 (+3), Coastal Carolina's Caitlin Evans-brand is third at 148 (+4) and Alden Alden Wallace from LSU and Puk Lyng Thomsen from Florida State are tied for fourth. Thomsen is competing as an individual and is not counted on the Florida State team score.

Tiger Notes

Gallegos opened her second round with birdies on her first two holes to quickly get to -2 in her round. Bogeys on 16 and 18 pushed her back to even and she went +3 her in final nine holes to finish the round at +4 (76). That was two strokes better than her opening round 78.
Victoria England will have some momentum when she starts her third round on Sunday. She birdied her final two holes (13 and 14) to get back to +7 for the second round.
Ana Dawson jumped six spots from her first to second round. After a first round 82, she fired a 77 in the second round to finish at 159 for the opening day. She birded 13, her second-to-last hole, but a bogey on 14 pushed her back to +5 to end the day.
Brooke Veres celebrated her birthday on the team's travel day to Florida. On Saturday, she birdied two of her final 10 holes. A double on four pushed her to +6, but the freshman got a stroke back two holes later on six.

Tee Times Sunday
Golfers will be in threesomes on Sunday after playing in pairs on Saturday. Memphis will be teamed with golfers form Kansas State and Missouri on Sunday and Tiger tee times will begin at 8 am off hole 12.

Team Top Five
LSU leads the field with an opening day 592 (289-303). Host Florida State is econd at 603 (307-296), while Alabama is third at 612 (305-307). Clemson (614) and South Florida (618) round out the top five team entries.

Live Scoring
Live scoring of the event will be available at www.golfstat.com.