No. 8 Women's Golf leads NCAA Austin Regional following first day

Monday, May 7

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NCAA Regional Championships

No. 8 Women's Golf leads NCAA Austin Regional following first day

05.07.2018 | Women's Golf

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Three Longhorns shoot under par and Texas finishes 7-under for the round.

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Three Texas golfers turned in rounds under par and the No. 8 Longhorns hold the team lead following the opening day of the NCAA Austin Regional on Monday at the UT Golf Club.

As a team, Texas shot a seven-under-par 281, which is tied for the 10th-best team total in program history. It marked the 12th time in program history that UT shot seven-under or better for an 18-hole round. The Longhorns hold a three-stroke lead over No. 3 Arkansas, which shot a four-under-par 284. No. 11 Michigan State is in third place with a three-under-par 285.

Texas led the tournament field on both par-three (2.75, -5) and par-four (4.02, +1) scoring. The Longhorns had the second-most birdies of any team in the field on Monday with 18.

Senior Sophia Schubert is tied for second place individually with a three-under-par 69. It was her fifth sub-70 score of the season. Schubert tied for the best average on par-three holes among the tournament field (2.50, -2). She totaled five birdies and 11 pars. Texas A&M's Maddie Szeryk holds the individual lead by one stroke with a four-under-par 68.

Freshman Kaitlyn Papp and sophomore Greta Isabella Voelker are both tied for sixth place overall with two-under-par 70s. Papp had six birdies on the day, which tied for second-most among all individuals on Monday, while Voelker was one of only four players in the field to record an eagle, which she did on the par-four 15th hole.

Sophomore Emilee Hoffman is tied for 23rd with an even-par 72. Freshman Agathe Laisne fired a one-over-par 73 and is tied for 32nd place. Laisne totaled a field-leading 16 pars on Monday.

The NCAA Austin Regional continues on Tuesday at the UT Golf Club beginning at 8 a.m. CT. Live scoring will be available here.

TEAM LEADERBOARD

Place	School	Round 1	To Par
1	Texas	281	-7
2	Arkansas	284	-4
3	Michigan State	285	-3
T4	Virginia Tech	288	E
T4	Baylor	288	E
T6	BYU	291	+3
T6	Florida	291	+3
8	Auburn	292	+4
9	Texas A&M	295	+7
T10	UTSA	298	+10
T10	Miami	298	+10
T12	Oklahoma	299	+11
T12	ECU	299	+11
T14	Houston	300	+12
T14	Texas Tech	300	+12
16	Houston Baptist	301	+13
17	Georgetown	302	+14
18	Missouri State	319	+31

INDIVIDUAL LEADERBOARD

Place	Golfer [School]	Round 1	To Par
1	Maddie Szeryk [Texas A&M]	68	-4
T2	Sophia Schubert [Texas]	69	-3
T2	Maria Fassi [Arkansas]	69	-3
T2	Megan Thothong [Houston]	69	-3
T2	Gurleen Kaur [Baylor]	69	-3
T6	Greta Isabella Voelker [Texas]	70	-2
T6	Katie Sharp [Michigan State]	70	-2
T6	Dylan Kim [Arkansas]	70	-2
T6	Sierra Brooks [Florida]	70	-2
T6	Kaitlyn Papp [Texas]	70	-2
T6	Sarah Burnham [Michigan State]	70	-2
T6	Brigitte Dunne [SMU]	70	-2
T6	Nikki Long [UTSA]	70	-2
T6	Amanda Hollandsworth [Virginia Tech]	70	-2

TEXAS INDIVIDUALS

Place	Golfer	Round 1	To Par
T2	Sophia Schubert	69	-3
T6	Kaitlyn Papp	70	-2
T6	Greta Isabella Voelker	70	-2
T23	Emilee Hoffman	72	E
T32	Agathe Laisne	73	+1

POST-ROUND QUOTES

Ryan Murphy, Texas Head Coach (team leader at -7): "I thought it was a great start to the golf tournament. Minus-seven on this course is really good. I'm happy about that. It was a really solid effort. We didn't make a birdie until our sixth hole collectively today. That's rare to have five clean scorecards through five holes. That tells you the team was very focused when they started today and, for the most part, maintained it throughout the round."

Maddie Szeryk, Texas A&M (individual leader at -4): "Today's round really helped our team a lot. I stuck with it today. I had two bogeys on my back nine (the front nine of the course, as she teed off at No. 10), but I kept fighting. I was hitting it pretty well throughout the day, so I gave myself chances on most every hole. Starting the round, I had two birdies in a row (at 13 and 14), making an eight-footer at the first one and four or five feet at the next hole, and I stayed really confident throughout the round."

(On her eagle on the par-5 fifth hole): "I hit a good drive and hit 3-wood into the green. I was between 3-wood and 5-wood, so I hit just hit 3-wood up there. It took one hop and hit the flag and came down to about three feet. The putt was a three-footer for eagle."

(Overall): "It was pretty exciting to open play in my fourth NCAA Regional. It's a really nice golf course here and a nice way to end my NCAA Regional career. Hopefully, we'd like to move on and compete at another event to close the season (at the NCAA Championships)."

Gurleen Kaur, Baylor (-3): "I was not hitting my driver well this morning, so I accepted that from the start. My mindset was to make sure everything else was working, so my chipping and putting were so good today. I've never chipped and putted so well. I missed four or five greens, but I made sure I got up and down every time. I didn't make a bogey all day. I missed birdie putts on the first and second hole, both from about 10 feet, but I felt like I was really on from the start. Overall, we have two more rounds to play, so we need to keep this momentum going. We need to play one shot at a time over the next two days and hope for the best."

Sophia Schubert, Texas (-3): "I felt pretty good about it. My game was good. I birdied my second hole. I hit the ball pretty well and hit most of the fairways. We're so excited to play on our home course and have all of our family and friends come out and watch. It's a good spot to be in. You can't win it on the first day, but you can lose it."

Greta Isabella Voelker, Texas (-2): "I thought it was really good. It wasn't playing that easy today and I'm happy that my team played that well. [My putting] went good today. It wasn't perfect today, but I made a lot of good putts."