Women’s golf team tied for 21st-place after opening round of Jekyll Island Collegiate

JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. – The Olivet College women's golf team is tied for 21st-place after the opening round of the 2018 Jekyll Island Women's Collegiate Tournament held at the Indian Mound Golf Course in Jekyll Island, Georgia.

THE BASICS
Location: Indian Mound Golf Course; Jekyll Island, Ga.
Par / Yardage: 72 / 5,801

HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Comets carded a 359 team score and is tied with Randolph-Macon (Va.) College.
• Claremont Mudd Scripps (Calif.) is on top of the leaderboard with a 302.
• Phoebe Nguyen from Whitman (Wash.) leads the player standings with a one-under par 71.

FOR THE COMETS

• Sophomore Nicole Deweyert finished her round in 87 total strokes. She had a birdie on both the par 4, 314-yard No. 14, and the par 5, 447-yard No. 17.
• Junior Hayley Cooper shot a 90.
• Sophomore Taylor Elley and freshman Crystal Lettinga were a stroke behind with matching 91s.

TEAM SCORES (AFTER FIRST ROUND)

1. Claremont Mudd Scripps (Calif.), 302; 2. Whitman (Wash.), 308; 3. Methodist (N.C.), 309; 4. New York Univ., 310; 4. Washington-St. Louis (Mo.), 310; 6. Carnegie Mellon (Pa.), 314; 7. DePauw (Ind.), 318; 8. Southwestern (Texas), 320; 8. Centre (Ky.), 320; 10. Berry (Ga.), 321; 11. Washington & Lee (Va.), 322; 12. Illinois Wesleyan, 327; 12. Sewanee (Tenn.), 327; 14. Bridgewater (Va.), 332; 14. Huntingdon (Ala.), 332; 16. Birmingham Southern (Ala.), 333; 17. Transylvania (Ky.), 341; 18. Christopher Newport (Va.), 342; 18. Oglethorpe (Ga.), 346; 20. Hanover (Ind.), 349; 21. OLIVET, 359; 21. Randolph-Macon (Va.), 359; 23. St. John Fisher (N.Y.), 396.

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UP NEXT

• Tomorrow's second round has tee times, starting at 8 a.m.