It’s still early in the 2017-18 college golf season, but
there are plenty of tournaments that
shed light on where this might be going.
Such was the case with the Schooner Fall Classic, hosted by
Oklahoma and supported by the Toby Martin Foundation, which wrapped up Monday.
It certainly looked like Alabama had a chance to be really
good coming into this season and the Schooner confirmed that notion as
sophomore Kristen Gillman, the 2014 U.S. Women’s Amateur champion, and junior Lauren Stephenson,
a quarterfinalist at this summer’s U.S. Women’s Amateur that it took 30 holes to eliminate, ripped off respective
rounds of 7-under 64 and 5-under 66 over the 6,046-yard, par-71 Belmar Golf
Club layout in Norman, Okla. in the final round lead the Crimson Tide to a
17-shot victory over a field filled with quality teams.
Gillman of Austin, Texas cruised to the individual title
with a 13-under 200 total and Stephenson of Lexington, S.C. was the runnerup at
10-under 203. Their scorching final rounds helped the Crimson Tide fire a
spectacular 15-under 269 in the final round for a 21-under 831 total.
Clemson, which got top-four finishes from Alice Hewson, a
junior from England, and Ana Paula Valdes, a sophomore from Mexico, fired a final round of 7-under 277 to take
runnerup honors with a 4-under 848
total.
Reigning Southeast Conference champion Florida, which
suffered some key personnel losses, finished third, a shot behind Clemson at
3-under 849.
Texas, which got a pair of final-round 64s from Emilee
Hoffman, a sophomore from Folsom, Calif. and Katilyn Papp, one of the top
freshmen in the country from Austin, Texas, finished fourth at 1-under 851
after a final round of 10-under 274.
The scary thing about the Longhorns is they did that without
reigning U.S. Amateur champion, Sophia Schubert, a senior from Oak Ridge,
Tenn., or reigning European Ladies champion Agathe Laisne, a freshman from
France, in the lineup. Both played in the Evian Championship, the LPGA’s final
major of the year, which was played in France.
Florida State had a final round of 7-under 277 to finish
fifth at 1-over 853.
Notre Dame, showing it belongs with some of elite programs
in women’s Division I golf, had a 6-under 278 in the final round to get a share
of sixth with host Oklahoma, which had a final round of 2-under 282, at 2-over
854. The Sooners had grabbed the lead in the opening round with a 7-under 277
on a day when scores were generally higher than they were the final two days of
the Schooner.
In addition to the 1-2 finish by Gillman and Stephenson, the
Tide also got a solid showing from Cheyenne Knight, a junior from Aledo, Texas
who had a final round of 2-under 69 to finish tied for 21st at
even-par 213. Lakareber Abe, a senior from Angleton, Texas, finished tied for
33rd at 2-over 215 after a final round of 1-under 71. Angelica Moresco,
a freshman from Italy, who finished tied for 55th at 10-over 223.
Alabama was so good in the final round, the Tide were able
to toss Moresco’s 2-over 73.
Gillman’s final-round 64 came on the heels of back-to-back
4-under 68s over the weekend as she cruised to the individual title with her
13-under 200 total. Stephenson had respective rounds of 69 and 68 Saturday and
Sunday before her final-round 66 gave her a 10-under 203 total.
Clemson’s Hewson finished up with a 6-under 65 to finish
alone in third at 8-under 205. Her
teammate Valdes had a final-round 67 to share fourth place with Miami’s Dewi
Weber, a junior from the Netherlands, at 4-under 207. After opening with an
even-par 72, Weber finished strong with rounds of 68 and 67 to join Valdes in
fourth.
The 64s fired by Texas’ Hoffman and Papp were program-record
scores, although the Longhorns have had players go 7-under on par-72 layouts.
The scintillating finishes enabled them to finish tied for sixth with
Oklahoma’s Hannah Wood, a senior from Centennial, Colo., at 4-under 209. Wood
opened with a 68 and added steady rounds of 71 and 70 to get to 4-under.
Notre Dame was paced by Maddie Rose Hamilton, a junior from
Louisville, Ky. Hamilton bounced back from an opening-round 76 with a blazing
6-under 65 in Sunday’s second round and finished up with a 2-under 69 to finish
tied for ninth at 3-under 210.
Junior Isabella DiLisio, the 2013 PIAA Class AAA champion as
a junior at Mount St. Joseph, was almost as good as Hamilton in the second
round, firing a 5-under 67. She opened with a 75 and finished up with an
even-par 71 to finish tied for 21st at even-par 213.
Joining DiLisio in the group tied for 21st for
the Irish was Emma Albrecht, a junior from Ormond Beach, Fla. who had solid
rounds of 67 and 69 around a tough 77 in Sunday’s second round. Albrecht
represented the Irish in the NCAA Columbus Regional as an individual last
spring.
Abby Heck, a freshman from Memphis, Tenn., contributed a
2-under 69 to Notre Dame’s strong finish as she finished tied for 39th
at 5-over 218. DiLisio’s Mount St. Joseph teammate, Alison Snakard, the Irish’s
senior captain, finished 80th at 238 after posting her best round of
the tournament, a 3-over 74, in the final round.
Mia Ayer, a sophomore from Waco, Texas, competed as an
individual and finished tied for 75th at 233 after a final-round 77.
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