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Baylor Women’s Golf Finishes 11th at Northrop Grumman

February 6, 2019
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PALOS VERDES, Calif. – Baylor women’s golf climbed two spots to finish in 11th place with a 54-hole total of 49-over-par 901 at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge. The Bears shot 12-over 296 in Tuesday’s final round at Palos Verdes Golf Club.

No. 35 Baylor (+49) finished ahead of four top-20 ranked teams. The Bears earned head-to-head victories over No. 3 Florida (+52), No. 5 Alabama (+61), No. 8 Arizona State (+55), No. 20 Florida State (+51) and No. 42 Colorado (+65).

Seven of the 10 teams to finish ahead of BU entered the tournament top-20 ranked. No. 13 Stanford (+15) claimed the title, followed by No. 12 UCLA (+17), No. 1 USC (+19), No. 2 Texas (+23), No. 9 Arizona (+32), Oklahoma State (+32), No. 14 Wake Forest (+37), No. 26 Furman (+44), No. 19 Washington (+45) and Ohio State (+47).

Baylor was led by Diane Baillieux, who finished tied for 26th place individually with a team-best 10-over-par 223 after a final round of 2-over 73. Erica Chiang posted Baylor’s best final round at 1-over 72 and finished tied for 34th place at 12-over 225. Gurleen Kaur shot 2-over 73 in the final round to finish tied for 41st place at 13-over 226, while Maria Vesga posted BU’s last counting score in the final round at 7-over 78 and finished tied for 46th place at 14-over 227. Emma Bradley carded 12-over 83 to place 81st at 29-over 242.

HIGHLIGHTS

Baylor finished tie for fourth in the 16-team field in par-5 scoring at even-par 5.00, 12th in par-4 scoring at 53-over 4.32 and tied for 13th in par-3 scoring at 25-over 3.42.

Baylor’s 27 birdies tied for 10th-most in the tournament, and BU tied for 11th with 153 pars.

Baillieux tied for the lead in the 84-player field in par-5 scoring at 4-under 4.56, while Chiang tied for eighth at 2-under 4.78.

Baillieux tied for fifth in the field with nine birdies across 54 holes.

Vesga led the team and tied for 20th in the tournament with 34 pars over 54 holes.

STAT OF THE DAY 
9 – Baylor players combined for nine birdies on the back-9, including three apiece from Kaur and Baillieux, two from Chiang and one from Vesga.

TOP QUOTE

“This is as good or better than a national championship field, so any time you can go out there and beat a few teams in a field like this, it’s a good thing,” head coach Jay Goble said. “The thing that’s frustrating is that we should’ve finished in the lower half of the field. It’s a lot of rust, and everyone has rust right now, but we haven’t had a tournament in quite a while, and we made a lot of silly mistakes that we continued to compound and turn into more mistakes. We beat three top-10 teams, so that’s a silver lining. We’re going to have a competitive conference, and we have a great team, but we just need to clean some things up before our next event.”

WHAT'S NEXT 
Baylor has a nearly three-week break before returning to action Feb. 25-26 at the Icon Invitational at The Woodlands (Texas) Country Club. 

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