UNCW’s Fobes in Top 10 Through 18 Holes in Raleigh; Charleston Completes First Day in Athens
Miles McQuiggan
Raleigh Results | Athens Results
RALEIGH, N.C. and ATHENS, Ga. (May 8, 2023) – UNCW women’s golf senior
Mallory Fobes holds a share of ninth place following Monday's first round of the NCAA Women's Golf Raleigh Regional at the Lonnie Poole Golf Course.
Fobes carded a one-under-par 71 to sit four strokes behind player leaders Lauren Olivares of NC State and Lottie Woad of Florida State. The host Wolfpack top the team leaderboard by one stroke over the Seminoles.
The East Bend, N.C., native, along with Arizona's Julia Misemer, topped the 66-player field with six birdies and rattled off three straight 1-unders on holes 15-17. Fobes' -1 (71) score matches the fourth-lowest 18-hole mark by a UNCW golfer at the NCAA Tournament.
Play resumes with the second round on Tuesday. Fobes is slated to tee off at 8:55 a.m. along with High Point's Sarah Kahn and Chattanooga's Dorota Zalewska.
CAA Champion Charleston stands in 11
th place through 18 holes at the University of Georgia Golf Course. CAA Golfer of the Year
Emma Schimpf was even on the afternoon and enters Tuesday in a tie for 13
th. Schimpf had two birdies on the front nine and made par on her final nine holes.
Host Georgia was 9-under in the opening round with all four scoring players under par. The Cougars are eight shots back of 10
th-place Augusta and 14 behind the tie of Maryland and San Jose State for the final advancing position.
Charleston will begin action Tuesday morning at 9:06 a.m. Play was delayed one hour in Athens on Monday due to weather.
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UNCW Athletic Communications contributed to this release.