(GOLF) SEC Golf Tourneys

Women have had a mediocre season headed into the SEC tourney. Third round of stroke play completed today and UF moved up from 9th after round 2 into 7th....which advances them to match play tomorrow vs 2 seed LSU
So Car finished round 3 at 16 under, LSU 10 under, Texas 5 under, Ole Miss 1 under, Miss St 1 over, Arky 5 over, UF 6 over, Tenn 7 over.
Historical strong teams like Bama (23 over/12th place), Vandy (40 over), and UGA (56 over) don't advance

 

Quick start for the women this morning
Tuttle up 2 thru 5
Fransisco down 2 thru 4
Archer up 2 thru 3
Guiser up 1 thru 3
Klonowski up 1 thru 2

3 sophomores and 2 freshman.....VERY young roster. Most of the other contributors are also freshmen and sophs

 

Great front 9 for the ladies
Tuttle up 3 thru 10
Fransisco all square thru 10
Archer up2 thru 9
Guiser up 3 thru 9
Klonowski up 2 thru 9

I'm sure LSU will make a run....but can't ask for much more so far

 

Yep...dominant upset of the 2 seed. Very impressive

 

Hitting the turn in the semis vs Arky.....2-2-1
Tuttle all square thru 9
Francisco up 2 thru 9
Archer up 3 thru 8
Guiser down 3 thru 7
Klonowski down 2 thru 7

 

Tuttle had a lead but loses 2 straight holes and 1 down thru 15
Francisco 1 up thru 14
Archer 2 up thru 13
Guiser 2 down thru 13
Klonowski 1 down thru 12
Tight match, looks to go to the wire

 

Tuttle kind of fell apart in the stretch and loses
Francisco has lost a nice lead and all square thru 17
Archer remains 2 up thru 16
Guiser 3 down thru 15....that will put Arky up 2-0
Klonowski has come back to all square thru 15

 

Francisco wins 18 and her match, Archer closes hers out.....2-2 now with Klonowski the only match remaining. The freshman has trailed almost the entire match, but now 1 up thru 16.

Just halved 17, so 1 up with one to play

 

Gators get it done....advance to the finals vs So Carolina. Gamecocks have been hammering the field this week, they will be a tough matchup

Coming in there were 9 SEC teams ranked ahead of UF, Arkansas is ranked #2, LSU #11....we beat them. Now #3 USC

 

Approaching the turn in finals....hanging tough vs USC, trail 3-2 but all tight matches
Tuttle 1 up thru 9
Francisco 1 up thru 8
Archer 2 down thru 7
Guiser 1 down thru 7
Klonowski 1 down thru 7

 

Tuttle first to finish with a nice win...not so good elsewhere
Francisco loses 2 holes and 1 down thru 15
Archer 3 down thru 14
Guiser 3 down thru 13
Klonowski all square thru 13

Need Francisco to rebound like she did yesterday....Archer and Gusier pretty much toast

 

Francisco wins the 16th to square her match
Archer wins the 15th, but still 2 down with 3 to play
Klonowski loses the 14th so she is now 1 down...that makes the road a lot harder

 

Francisco loses 17, 1 down now....that probably was the killer
Down in all 4 remaining matches now

 

Guiser and Archer lose....Francisco has to win 18 to keep the match going

And she wins 18 to stay alive...going to playoff hole
And as I type Klonowski loses 17 and her match, so USC wins it.

Great performance and valuable match play experience for NCAAs, went head to head with #2 and #3 ranked teams.....with nothing but freshmen and sophs. Shoud have lot of momentum for regionals

 

Men heading out for day 3, final day of stroke play
Day 1 they were at 5 under in 5th place....decent round but well back of the top 3 teams and bunched up with about 6 teams
Day 2 they ended in 6th place, one stroke behind UGA.....dropped further from the lead pack but also got a little room established between them and the 8th place cut line

Early on day 3 and they start out hot.....6 under for the day, 12 under overall. Tied w UGA for 5th. Alabama is in 9th at 3 under, so they are 9 strokes above the cut line.
LSU and Aub have been scorching, tied for lead at 28 under, TAMU at 23 under, Okla at 15 under.
Looks like UF, UGA, Okla are locked for 4th-6th place barring a meltdown. So Car and Miss St are tied for 7th at 5 under

 

UF now 15 under, -9 for the round.....UF started on the back 9 so they still have the bulk of the front 9 to play
One stroke behind Okla for 4th
3 strokes clear of UGA
12 strokes clear of the cut line so that's not a concern