Barber Wins, Sooners End Second in Tulsa

TULSA, Okla. — Oklahoma senior golfer Savannah Barber led the Sooners to a runner-up end on the Route 66 Invitational Honoring Dale McNamara with a record-breaking particular person victory on Tuesday.

Barber’s 54-hole rating of 202 (-11) set a program file for lowest successful rating by a Sooner, surpassing Julienne Soo’s 203 from the 2017 Clover Cup. It marked Barber’s first profession win in a 54-hole occasion. The Fort Worth, Texas, native beforehand gained an 18-hole stroke play match at Jimmie Austin in Norman final yr.

“Really happy with our team’s resolve this week,” head coach Veronique Drouin-Luttrell mentioned. “We gave it our best run over these last two rounds but couldn’t quite make up the ground to catch Arkansas, who’s a really good team. All in all, I’m proud of our team’s fight and glad we got a good result.”

The Sooners (2, -8) entered Tuesday’s ultimate spherical 10 pictures behind No. 8 Arkansas however practically accomplished the comeback, ending simply three strokes shy of the Razorbacks (1, -11).

Barber (1, -11) fired rounds of 68-66-68 on the par-71 Cedar Ridge Country Club in Tulsa to take the person title. Tied with Arkansas’ Maria Jose Marin at 10-under on the ultimate gap, Barber caught her method to inside 5 ft and rolled within the successful birdie. The win earned her an exemption right into a Women’s All Pro Tour occasion subsequent summer season. She tallied 14 birdies and simply two bogeys or worse throughout the match, together with a bogey-free 66 in spherical two. It marked her third top-10 end in 4 fall occasions.

“Savannah was incredible all tournament long,” Drouin-Luttrell added. “She’s been close to winning so many times and to see her finish it off like that was really special. This is a testament to her hard work and development over the last four years.”

Senior Gracie Mayo (3, -7) posted her finest end of the season, inserting third after rounds of 73-66-67. Her play over the ultimate 36 holes helped OU hearth back-to-back rounds of 276 (-8), its finest scores in opposition to par this fall, vaulting the Sooners up the leaderboard.

Reagan Chaney shot 76-70-70 to tie for thirteenth at 3-over, marking her fourth straight top-20 end this fall and the thirteenth of her profession.

Raychel Nelke and Satonkan (Earn) Thiengsri competed as people and tied for twenty fifth at 7-over. Isabelle Schlick and Meg Tilma tied for thirty ninth at 11-over to spherical out the staff’s lineup.

Oklahoma and Arkansas had been the one groups to complete below par. Host Tulsa positioned third at 17-over, 25 pictures again of the Sooners. Florida Gulf Coast (+22) and Rutgers (+24) rounded out the highest 5.

The runner-up end was Oklahoma’s finest results of the autumn and its prime placement since successful the Paradise Invitational in February 2025. The staff’s 54-hole rating of 844 was its finest at a regular-season occasion for the reason that 2024 Westbrook Invitational and ranks tenth in program historical past.

The Sooners return to motion Oct. 19-20 on the Jim West Challenge at Kissing Tree Golf Club in San Marcos, Texas. OU completed third finally yr’s match behind top-10 performances from Chaney and Mayo.

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