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Sunday, February 9, 2020

Telfer fires 66 to lead Auburn to top of loaded field in Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge


   Auburn, out of the Southeastern Conference, played the role of giant-killer when the Tigers stunned Texas, which had earned the top seed in qualifying, in the quarterfinals in the NCAA Championship last spring at The Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville, Ark.
   So, it shouldn’t have been too surprising to see Auburn, No. 33 in the latest Golfstat rankings, holding a six-shot advantage over the largest collection of college golf talent since The Blessings with most of the suspended opening round of  the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge complete Sunday at the Palos Verdes Golf Club in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.
   Led by Kaleigh Telfer, a junior from South Africa who fired a spectacular 5-under 66 over the 6,017-yard, par-71 Palos Verdes layout and holds a one-shot lead in the individual chase, Auburn posted a solid 1-under 283 total.
   The Northrop Grumman, hosted by Big Ten champion Ohio State, has become one of the top women’s college golf events each year. For many of the teams, it marks the first stop in the spring portion of the wraparound 2019-2020 season. When the spring sprint concludes with the NCAA Championship at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz. in May, many of these teams will be there.
   Kent State, coming off an impressive victory in last week’s UCF Challenge in Orlando, Fla. that boosted it to No. 2 in the rankings, completed a 5-over 289 to stand alone in second place. The Flashes are under the direction of first-year coach Lisa Strom, the 1994 PIAA champion as a senior at Lansdale Catholic.
   Two of the three teams tied for third place at 6-over still have some work to do and will return to the golf course Monday morning to complete their rounds. Reigning national champion Duke, ranked 12th, and No. 15 Oregon out of the Pac-12 were at 6-over when play was suspended.
   No. 1 Texas, the reigning Big 12 champion, completed a 6-over 290 to join the group tied for third place.
   Duke’s Atlantic Coast Conference rival Wake Forest, which fell to the Blue Devils in the Final Match last spring at The Blessings, was alone in sixth place at 7-over. The No. 3 Demon Deacons still have to complete their round.
   A couple of Pac-12 powers, No. 4 Arizona State, which captured the most recent of its eight national championships in 2017 at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Ill., and No. 19 UCLA are tied for seventh place in the loaded 16-team field, each posting a 9-over 293.
   Telfer finished with six birdies against a lone bogey on her scorecard in helping Auburn get the jump on the field. Backing her up was Brooke Sansom, a redshirt sophomore from Pike Road, Ala. who joined a group of four players tied for fifth place with a 1-under 70.
   Mychael O’Berry, a junior from Hoover, Ala., carded a 1-over 73 to finish among the group tied for 19th place. It was Sansom and O’Berry who pulled out hard-fought matches in the most pressurized of situations that helped the Tigers reach the NCAA semifinals last spring at The Blessings.
   Kayley Marschke, a senior from Suwanee, Ga., had the final counter for Auburn with a 3-over 74 that left her among the group tied for 29th place.
   Rounding out the Auburn lineup was Meghan Schofill, a freshman from Monticiello, Fla. who reached the round of 16 in last summer’s U.S. Women’s Amateur at the Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point, Miss. Schofill posted a 5-over 76 to land among the group tied for 49th place.
   There’s no guarantee that Telfer’s 5-under total will hold up for the first-round lead. Wake Forest’s Emilia Migliaccio, a junior from Cary, N.C. and No. 6 in the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR), still has a chance to catch Telfer as Migliaccio was at 4-under through 14 holes when play was suspended.
   If Migliaccio maintains her lofty Women’s WAGR ranking, she will be an automatic selection to the team that will represent the United States in the Curtis Cup Match in June at Conwy Golf Club in Caernarvonshire, Wales. Migliaccio represented the US of A in last summer’s Pan American Games in Lima, Peru and struck gold in both the women’s individual and mixed team competitions.
   Southern California’s Amelia Garvey, a junior from New Zealand and No. 44 in the Women’s WAGR and Oregon’s Tze-Han (Heather) Lin, a sophomore from Taiwan, are tied for third place at 2-under. Garvey completed a 2-under 69 while Lin has two holes to play.
   Among the players joining Auburn’s Sansom in the group tied for fifth place at 1-under was Arizona State’s Olivia Mehaffey, a senior from Northern Ireland and No. 17 in the Women’s WAGR. Mehaffey played on the Sun Devils’ 2017 national championship team and has twice been selected for the Great Britain & Ireland side in the Curtis Cup Match. She completed a round of 70.
   Rounding out the quartet at 1-under were UCLA’s Emma Spitz, a freshman from Austria and No. 27 in the Women’s WAGR, and Kent State’s Kory Nielsen, a junior home girl from Kent, Ohio, both of whom completed rounds of 70.
   Of the seven players tied for ninth place at even-par, just two, Duke’s Gina Kim, a sophomore from Chapel Hill, N.C. and No. 26 in the Women’s WAGR, and Oregon’s Sofie Kibsgaard Nielsen, a freshman from Denmark, still have to complete their rounds. Both have two holes to play.
   Gina Kim had herself quite a spring a year ago, helping the Blue Devils win a national title and then earning low-amateur honors by finishing tied for 12th place in the U.S. Women’s Open at the Country Club of Charleston.
   Among the five players who completed an even-par 72 were Arizona State’s Linn Grant, a freshman from Sweden and No. 12 in the Women’s WAGR, and Vanderbilt’s Auston Kim, a sophomore from St. Augustine, Fla. and No. 19 in the Women’s WAGR.
   Both Kims, Gina and Auston, along with Migliaccio were among the dozen players invited to a practice session for candidates for the U.S. Curtis Cup team at Loblolly in Hobe Sound, Fla. in December.
   Also signing for even-par 72s were Texas’ senior leader Emilee Hoffman of Folsom, Calif., Pepperdine’s Momoka Kobori, a senior from New Zealand, and Duke’s Megan Furtney, a freshman from St. Charles Ill. who joined up with Duke teammate Erica Shepherd to capture the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship last spring at Timuquana Country Club in Jacksonville, Fla.
   It is going to be a fascinating next two days in Palos Verdes Estates with so much talent, individual and team, trying to jump-start the spring sprint to Grayhawk.

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