Florida State University Athletics
W. Golf in Third Place at Collegiate Invitational
2/5/2023 8:43:23 PM | Women's Golf
GUADALAJARA, Mexico – No. 10 Florida State opened its spring season at Guadalajara Country Club for the Collegiate Invitational and is currently in third place at 9-over par (441) after 27 holes of play.
Junior Charlotte Heath leads the Seminoles with a round one score of 2-under par (70) and finished the first nine holes of round two at even-par. After round one, Heath was tied for the lead with Tennessee’s Manassanan Chotikabhukkana and remained at the top of the leaderboard throughout the 27 holes.
Heath had a strong front-nine, birdying three out of her first five holes to finish her first nine at 2-under par. Although she started off with a bogey at the turn, she birdied No.18 – a 499-yard par 5 to close out her first round.
She continued persevering through a bogey on the first hole of round two, returning with a birdie on hole No. 2 to get back to even-par for the nine. She parred the remaining seven holes to finish her third nine of the day at even-par, totaling two-under for 27 holes.
Heath led the Seminoles in birdies, totaling 5 for the day.
Freshman Lottie Woad shot two out of the three nines played Sunday under-par, with her first-nine of the tournament being her only nine over-par. Woad was even-par through her first five holes of the first round, but encountered her only double-bogey of the three nines on hole No. 6 followed by a bogey on No. 8.
Woad quickly bounced back with two birdies on the back-nine to shoot 1-under par for a total of 2-over in round one. The first nine of round two proved to be different than earlier in the day, as Woad birdied two of her first six holes and continued to par her remaining four holes.
Woad is currently T4 with an even-par total for the tournament after shooting 2-under on her first-nine of round two. She led the Seminoles in pars, totaling 20 for the day.
Senior Amelia Williamson is T20 with a round one score of 4-over par (76) and a first-nine round two score of 1-over par. Williamson found slight trouble on the back-nine, but was able to fight through the adversity and secure two birdies to shoot a 3-over par 39.
Sophomore Kaylah Williams is currently T27 at 6-over par with an opening round score of a 4-over par 76 followed by a round two front-nine 2-over. Williams had two birdies for the day, one on hole No. 4 of the first nine and another on the opening hole of round two.
Junior Alice Hodge is T47 at 10-over par with rounds of 79 (7-over par) and 39 (3-over par). Hodge led the 60-player field in average score on par 3’s, averaging a 2.67 (-2).
Woad and Heath both led Florida State in average scores on par 4’s and par 5’s, each averaging a 4.00 (E) and a 4.83 (-1).
Guadalajara Country Club, the 6,333 yard par 72 course, proved to be difficult for the entire 12-team field, as the average score for the first round was a 76.79. The hardest hole on the golf course was No. 6 – a 384-yard par 4 which saw an average score of 4.53. Not a single hole at Guadalajara averaged below par.
As a team, Florida State shot an average score of 2.97 (-1) on par 3’s, a 4.19 (+14) on par 4’s, and a 5.20 (+6) on par 5’s. They led the 12-team field in pars, totaling 90 for the 27 holes and combined for 15 birdies altogether.
Another 27 holes of play will be played on Monday, February 6th to complete the three-round Collegiate Invitational at Guadalajara Country Club. Alice Hodge will tee off the Seminoles at 10:00am ET off of hole No. 10.
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