Pioneers close out fall with fifth place finish at Rendleman Invitational

Pioneers close out fall with fifth place finish at Rendleman Invitational

SALISBURY, N.C. --- The Tusculum University women's golf team posted a final round 307 to finish with a tournament total 610 and place fifth at the 2019 Patsy Rendleman Invitational.  The two-day, 36-hole event is being held at the Country Club of Salisbury and hosted by Catawba College.

The Pioneers moved up one spot from Monday's opening round as Tusculum closes out the fall portion of its schedule.

Tusculum senior Jennifer Keim carded back-to-back rounds of 74 to finish tied for 11th with 148 finishing five strokes behind medalist Kaley Barts of Catawba (67-76=143) who held on to win by one shot over Alicia Fajardo of Coker University (70-74=144).

Limestone College claimed the team title as the Saints posted a 586 including an even-par 288 in the final round.  UNC Pembroke shot a school-record 288 on Tuesday to vault four spots on the leaderboard to second place at 591.  Queens University of Charlotte finished third with 601, followed by the University of Mount Olive (604) and Tusculum (610) to comprise the top-five.

Lenoir-Rhyne University and the University of Montevallo each shot 612 to tie for sixth place. Host Catawba finished eighth with 614, followed by Young Harris College (617), Lander University (622), Anderson University (623), Coker (628), Belmont Abbey College (633), North Greenville University (639), Erskine College (639) and King University (646).

TU's Yen Xuan Ong shot 74-77=151 to finish 17th while Olivia Cunningham shot 78-74=152 to place 23rdTaylor Gransen finished 53rd with 77-82=159, while Bianca Findlay rounded out the team scoring with 80-83=163 to tie for 68th place.

Tusculum returns to action Feb. 10-11 at the Spring Kickoff Intercollegiate in St. Augustine, Florida.

 

Team Results

Pl

Team

1st

2nd

TOT

1

Limestone

298

288

586

2

UNC Pembroke

303

288

591

3

Queens

302

299

601

4

Mount Olive

301

303

604

5

TUSCULUM

303

307

610

6

Lenoir-Rhyne

298

314

612

 

Montevallo

309

303

612

8

Catawba

297

317

614

9

Young Harris

314

303

617

10

Lander

306

316

622

11

Anderson

309

314

623

12

Coker

304

324

628

13

Belmont Abbey

315

318

633

14

North Greenville

325

314

639

 

Erskine

319

320

639

16

King

323

323

646

 

Tusculum Individual Scores

Pl

Player

1st

2nd

TOT

T11

Jennifer Keim

74

74

148

T17

Yen Xuan Ong

74

77

151

T23

Olivia Cunningham

78

74

152

T53

Taylor Gransen

77

82

159

T68

Bianca Findlay

80

83

163