Sitting Two Again After Two Rounds – Stanford Cardinal

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii — The second spherical of the Nanea Invitational wrapped up on Tuesday morning at Nanea Golf Club, with No. 1 Stanford girls’s golf persevering with to climb in direction of the entrance. Stanford is the one group to shoot no less than 10-under par in each rounds because it seems for a group, and maybe a person, champion to shut out the autumn.

The battle for a group championship is heating up. One day after capturing 21-under as a group, No. 6 Auburn fizzled and shot 6-over, dropping to 3rd and trailing Stanford by 5 strokes. Stanford now sits at 21-under by means of two rounds after posting an 11-under on Tuesday, however the Cardinal stays wanting up on the leaders. No. 21 Arizona State is one stroke forward of Stanford heading into Wednesday’s finale.

Megha Ganne had one of many greatest rebounds of all the event. She was the Cardinal’s drop-score on Monday, however she shot a 4-under 69 throughout the second spherical, a six-stroke swing from Monday. Only Farah O’Keefe from Texas had a greater spherical on Tuesday (68), and it strikes Ganne 25 spots up the leaderboard into the highest 20. The closing to her spherical was unimaginable, as she strung collectively 4 birdies over her last 5 holes to rocket her method again to the precise aspect of par.

Ganne wasn’t the one Cardinal to interrupt into the 60s on Tuesday. Kelly Xu continued to have a powerful begin in Hawaii with a 69 of her personal. The clear spherical was cut up down the center with two birdies on the entrance 9 and two extra on the again 9. This places Xu in acquainted territory, coming into the third spherical simply two strokes behind Anna Davis for the person lead and in a tie for second. Xu has entered the third spherical main (Windy City Intercollegiate) and in fourth (Stanford Intercollegiate) already this fall.

Another good spherical was shot by Paula Martín Sampedro, who fired a 2-under 71 and sits in a tie for 12^th at 4-under total. Her day started with three birdies throughout her first 5 holes earlier than petering out and recording only one extra birdie the remainder of the spherical. Still, the No. 2 within the World Amateur rankings finds herself in an incredible place to safe one other prime 10 end, which might be the 17^th in simply 2.5 years of collegiate golf.

On the person aspect, Kaila Elsayegh finds herself as one of many golfers tied with Martín Sampedro for 12^th total after capturing a 3-under 70 on Tuesday, the most effective spherical within the freshman’s profession. Like Xu, it was a clear spherical, with consecutive birdies on her fourth and fifth holes of the day, and one on 11, her last gap. She joins Leigh Chien (1-under) and Anna Song (even) as particular person golfers at par or higher for Stanford.

The last spherical of the Nanea Invitational takes place on Wednesday morning at 10:30 a.m. PT, with Stanford in search of its second consecutive stroke play win to shut out the autumn. Stanford received’t be again in motion as a group till February with the Arizona Thunderbird Intercollegiate on Feb. 9-10.

Nanea Invitational (Nanea Golf Club, par 73)