Women's Golf: Lights out

The Longhorns stand tied for fourth at the end of the first day of the Challenge at Onion Creek in Austin. The three-round, 54-hole tournament was suspended amidst the last few holes of the second round due to darkness.

“It’s fun to be playing here in Austin,” said senior Alex Richards. “[But] one of the things we talked about before this tournament was not taking this course for granted just because we have practiced on it before. Today was a lesson of preparing ourselves to be ready to play every day.”

Freshman Haley Stephens led the team with a 1-under-par 69 in the first round, and is currently at a combined 3-over-par with four holes to go. Freshman Katelyn Sepmoree, junior Shannon Fish and freshman Madison Pressel had four, five and 6-over-par, respectively at the stop of play.

The Challenge is the only Austin-based tournament for the Longhorns in the fall. The second round resumes today at 8 a.m. at the historic Onion Creek Club. Richards said the team is prepared to play the extra holes.

“Instead of saying, ‘We need to finish round two,’ we’re going to challenge ourselves to play these last 20 holes as well as we can,” Richards said. “We’ll all have 20 birdie opportunities [today].”
 

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