FAYETTEVILLE \u2013\u00a0No. 12 Arkansas women\u2019s golf opened its home tournament, the Blessings Collegiate Invitational, with a 3-over-par 291 at Blessings Golf Club (Par 72).<\/p>\n
The Hogs got off to a slow start in the morning and shot 6-over on the front nine before turning it around with a 4-under finish on the back nine.<\/p>\n
Sophomore Sara Brentcheneff, making her BCI debut, led the Razorbacks at 2-under on the front and birdied three of her last four holes before making the turn. She played the par 3s particularly well, with birdies on Nos. 8 and 17.<\/p>\n
Senior Maria Jose Marin, making her fourth BCI appearance, was 1-over after nine holes, with eight pars and one bogey on the par-3 eighth, and turned it on starting at No. 10 with five birdies in her first six holes.<\/p>\n
Marin shot 3-under on the par 4s to lead the field.<\/p>\n
Arkansas\u2019 remaining starters finished over par. Sophomore Ebba Liljeberg, who played for Missouri at last year\u2019s BCI, birdied her first hole but was 5-over going into the par-5 15th. She birdied following a strong approach and parred her remaining three holes.<\/p>\n
Sophomore Swetha Sathish, playing in her first BCI as part of the lineup, carded a 77.<\/p>\n
Senior Abbey Schutte\u2019s 78 was dropped.<\/p>\n
Freshman Melliyal Schmitt, making her Arkansas debut as an individual, got off to a strong start at 2-under through nine but suffered a triple bogey on the par-4 11th and a double bogey on the par-3 13th. Schmitt battled back with three birdies in her last five holes to finish even par.<\/p>\n
Junior Natalie Blonien, playing as an individual, struggled early and was 5-over through nine. She finished strong with three birdies on the back to get to 3-over.<\/p>\n
Alabama finished 8-under to take a 12-stroke lead headed into Sunday\u2019s second round.<\/p>\n
The Hogs will tee off on Sunday at 8:25 a.m. from the 10th tee. Blonien and Schmitt will tee off at 8:15 a.m.<\/p>\n
The Razorbacks<\/p>\n
2. Arkansas +3<\/p>\n
T2. Maria Jose Marin -4
5. Sara Brentcheneff -2
T25. Ebba Liljeberg +4
T27. Swetha Sathish +5
T29. Abbey Schutte +6
T9. Melliyal Schmitt (Ind.) E
T18. Natalie Blonien (Ind.) +3<\/p>\n
For more information on Arkansas women\u2019s golf, follow @RazorbackWGolf on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FAYETTEVILLE \u2013\u00a0No. 12 Arkansas women\u2019s golf opened its home tournament, the Blessings Collegiate Invitational, with a 3-over-par 291…","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_volume":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4910,111,7027],"class_list":["post-11589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-headlines","tag-lpga","tag-women-s-golf","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/vive.im\/@fogolf\/117379478552916568","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}