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Darius Rucker Intercollegiate
No. 7 Women’s Golf’s Farah O’Keefe earns co-medalist honors at Darius Rucker Intercollegiate
03.06.2024 | Women's Golf
O’Keefe notches third top-five finish of her freshman season at Texas.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Texas women's golf freshman Farah O'Keefe sunk a nearly 50-foot putt on the 18th green to post a five-under-par score and earn co-medalist honors at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate on Wednesday at the Long Cove Club.
O'Keefe, the native of Austin, Texas, shot rounds of 71-67-70 over the three days at Hilton Head and has now carded 13 rounds at par or better in her 15 rounds of stroke play this season to go along with a 3-0 record in match play.
The Longhorns finished tied for sixth place in the event with a team score of 12-over par. Arizona State won with a team title with a score of three-over-par, Northwestern was second at four-over-par and Auburn third at five-over-par. The field featured eight teams ranked in the top 12 in the country out of the 17 teams in the field.
Cindy Hsu moved up 12 places on the leaderboard in the final round with a one-under-par 70 and finished at T19 for the tournament. As a team the Longhorns made 10 birdies over their final 18 holes of the event.
Up next Texas will compete in the PING/ASU Invitational March 28-30 in Tempe, Ariz.
The Lineup
Farah O'Keefe collected her third top-five finish of her freshman year as she earned co-medalist honors. O'Keefe made 13 birdies over the three-day event, tied for the third most in the field. O'Keefe was the best in the field in par-three scoring with a score of four-under-par.
Cindy Hsu made 12 birdies over the course of the tournament and finished T19 on the individual leaderboard. Hsu shot under par in two of her three rounds of the tournament and for the season has shot rounds at par or better in five of her nine rounds.
Lauren Kim started the tournament with a two-under-par 69 and finished at four-over-par and T33 on the individual leaderboard. Kim made three birdies in her final 18 holes of the tournament.
Selina Liao playing in her second collegiate event finished at 11-over-par with a four-over-par 75 in her final round with one birdie on her scorecard.
Bohyun Park shot rounds of 74-78-82 in the tournament.
Head Coach Ryan Murphy on the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate
"I thought our team performance was ok. We had some nice rounds on a challenging golf course. We need to be much cleaner going around the course. Little mistakes happened too frequently and ultimately cost us vying for the team title. It will be back-to-the-drawing board for us leading to our next trip to Tempe."
"As for Farah, it was obviously a terrific tournament for her. To shoot 5-under on this golf course and coming out T1 against this field is very heady stuff for a freshman. Her second round and her final nine holes today was where she won the tournament. Very strong play coming to the house today hitting all nine greens in regulation and capping it off with a bomb on the last hole was fun to watch!"
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