SPRINGFIELD, N.J. – The University of Pennsylvania women's golf team is in fourth place after the first day at the Ivy League Championship. The three-day, 54-hole event is taking place on the par-72 Lower Course at the famed Baltusrol Golf Club.
Results (Clippd.com)
Penn shot 306 as a team on Friday, finishing the day at 18 over par. That had the Quakers alone in fourth behind three teams that broke 300: Princeton (296, +8), Harvard (298, +10), and Columbia (299, +11).
Individually, freshman
Mi Li—playing her first Championship round for the Quakers—led the way for the team in the six-play, four-score event. She shot a 3-over-par 75 which has her tied for seventh in a field of 36 golfers. Fellow freshman
Adrienne Ahn-Upton was right behind Li, shooting a 76 which has her tied for 11th.
Sophomore
Claire Lu (77, +5) and senior
Bridget O'Keefe (78, +6) were Penn's other scorers on Friday, while senior
Julie Shin (80, +8) and junior
Maggie Ni (82, +10) rounded out the lineup.
Princeton's Thanana Kotchasanmanee is the individual leader; she shot 2-under-par 70 on Friday and is three strokes ahead of Columbia's Sarah Shao and Harvard's Iris Wang who are tied for second.
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