Wildcats Jump to T4 after Bettie Lou Evans Invitational Second Round
NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. – Behind a four-over par team score of 292, the University of Kentucky women’s golf team surged into a tie for fourth place after round two of the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational on Tuesday at Champion Trace at Keene Trace Golf Club.
Elin Pudas Remler, a freshman competing in her college debut, had the round of the day for the Wildcats, posting a 3-under par 69, which included four birdies and an eagle. Pudas Remler picked up her first birdie on the par-4 No. 4 and immediately followed that with an eagle on the par-5 No. 5. The Gothenburg, Sweden, native added birdies on a pair of par threes – No. 9 and No. 16 – to go along with another on the par 4 No. 13.
Pudas Remler, who took eight strokes off her first round, moved up 23 spots on the individual leaderboard to land in a tie for eighth place ahead of the final round.
Two others went par-or-better today, including UK’s lone senior Marta López Echevarría and a freshman Anastasia Hekkonen.
Both Wildcats recorded even-par 72s, and both Cats did so with clean scorecards, each just logging one birdie and one bogey during their rounds. López Echevarría shed three strokes off her first round, while Hekkonen, competing as an individual in the first tournament of her college career, shed an impressive seven strokes from Sunday.
Brooke Oberparleiter remains in front of the Wildcats, despite competing as an individual.
The sophomore from Laurel Springs, New Jersey, paired her first-round 73 with a second-round 73. Her and her group were first off the tenth tee at 8:30 a.m. ET, and their pairing flew through the golf course, finishing 20 minutes ahead of the rest of the field. A birdie on her first hole of the round, the par-4 No. 10, was the first of four birdies Monday, including a pair of par-3s on the back nine.
The Wildcat’s 146 through two rounds has her sitting T8, alongside Pudas Remler.
Competing in the first tournament of her college career, Raleygh Simpson, a freshman from Kerryville, Texas, improved in the second round, contributing to the team score for the second straight day. The rookie earned a birdie on her first hole of the day, the par-4 No. 1, to go on and produce a 2-over-par 74 on Tuesday.
Simpson has a 7-over-par 151 and is tied for 27th place with 18 holes to go.
Despite beginning the second round with back-to-back birdies on hole Nos. 1 and 2, C.A. Carter, a Lexington, Kentucky, native, turned in a 6-over Tuesday, combining for a 9-over-par 153 tournament total for in 39th place.
Cathryn Brown, an Eddyville, Kentucky, native, began her round with a birdie, too, also on the par-4 No. 1. The sophomore matched her first-round 78 with a second-round 78, combining for a 12-over-par 156 through 36 holes and sitting in a share of 48th place.
Karlie Campbell, a freshman competing as an individual, also in her first college tournament, rounded out today’s scores with a 6-over-par 78.
The final round of the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational will feature a 9 a.m. ET shotgun start Tuesday at Champion Trace at Keene Trace Golf Club.
Scorecard
T8 Brooke Oberparleiter* 73, 73 … 146 (+2)
T8 Elin Pudas Remler 77, 69 … 146 (+2)
T16 Marta López Echevarría 75, 72 …. 147 (+3)
T25 Raleygh Simpson 77, 74 … 151 (+7)
T25 Anastasia Hekkonen* 79, 72 … 151 (+7)
T37 C.A. Carter 76, 77 … 153 (+9)
T46 Cathryn Brown 78, 78 … 156 (+12)
T51 Karlie Campbell* 80, 78 … 158 (+14)
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