KU women’s golf wins Marilynn Smith Sunflower Invitational

Women’s Golf

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Kansas women’s golf coach Lindsay Kuhle

The Kansas women’s golf team earned its first victory of the season on Tuesday by winning the Marilynn Smith Sunflower Invitational at Lawrence Country Club for the third consecutive year.

The Jayhawks jumped out to a huge lead by shooting 8-under in the opening round on Monday as no opponent did better than 10-over, and they maintained a similar margin over the course of the rest of the event, ultimately finishing at 6-over with a 23-stroke lead over second-place Delaware.

The Blue Hens did take home the individual title, with Rhianna Gooneratne at 2-under for the tournament, beating out KU junior Ebba Nordstedt, the reigning champion, by two strokes. But Nordstedt was one of four Jayhawks in the top six spots. Sophomore Kinslea Jones had led after two rounds and finished in a tie for third at 1-over. Fifth-year golfer Anna Wallin came in fifth at 4-over, and freshman Hannah Hall was sixth at 5-over.

The final member of the Jayhawks’ A team was senior Lyla Louderbaugh, who tied for 16th at 13-over. KU did manage to slip a member of its B team into the top 10, as freshman Elizabeth Wilson tied for 10th by shooting 11-over.

The KU B team was 64-over as a group and came in eighth, with Wilson followed by senior Zoe Pinillos (tied for 24th, 15-over), sophomore Marieke Ebens (tied for 39th, 19-over), freshman Lavanya Gupta (45th, 21-over) and sophomore Amanada Gyllner (50th, 24-over).

Behind Kansas A and Delaware were on the team leaderboard were, in order, Cal, UC Davis, Longwood, St. Thomas, Central Arkansas, Kansas B, New Mexico, San Francisco, Middle Tennessee, Creighton, Omaha and Northern Iowa.

The Jayhawks, who had finished fifth and eighth in their first two events of the season, will be in action next beginning on Oct. 16 at the Play for Her Stanford Invitational in Stanford, California.

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Written By Henry Greenstein

Henry is the sports editor at the Lawrence Journal-World and KUsports.com, and serves as the KU beat writer while managing day-to-day sports coverage. He previously worked as a sports reporter at The Bakersfield Californian and is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis (B.A., Linguistics) and Arizona State University (M.A., Sports Journalism). Though a native of Los Angeles, he has frequently been told he does not give off “California vibes,” whatever that means.

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