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Blessings Collegiate Invitational
Polly Mack Leads Alabama Women's Golf on Opening Day of Blessing Collegiate
10/5/2020 8:02:00 PM | Women's Golf
The senior is tied for sixth in the all-SEC showdown field
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Against one of the top fields in the nation, the Alabama women's golf team opened the 2020-21 campaign Monday at the Blessing Collegiate Invitational presented by Tyson Foods with a 19-over par 307, at the Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville, Ark.
Senior Polly Mack paced the Crimson Tide in round one carding an even-par, 72, to open the season. Mack is tied for sixth and is one of eight other golfers that shot par or better from the 70-player field.
As a team, Alabama will enter the second round in ninth overall, but the Crimson Tide is only seven strokes from moving into the top five of the all-Southeastern Conference leaderboard.
Tournament host, Arkansas jumped out to the early team lead with an 1-over par 289, Monday, while LSU (293), Florida (295), Georgia (300), Auburn (300), Ole Miss (302), South Carolina(304), Tennessee (304), Texas A&M (307), Vanderbilt (314), Kentucky (314), Mississippi State (317) and Missouri (330) rounded out the 14 team all-conference field.
Teeing off the season. ??????
— Alabama Women's Golf (@AlabamaWGolf) October 5, 2020
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A Look at the Alabama Lineup
- Mack carded five birdies on the Blessings Golf Club, a par-72, 6,171-yard layout that played to its full difficulty Monday.
- Graduate student Kenzie Wright opened and concluded the first round with a birdie, collecting a total of four on the day at 3-over par 75 and tied for 20th overall.
- Senior Angelica Moresco is tied for 44th at 7-over par 79 heading into Tuesday's action.
- Sitting in a tie for 53rd, sophomore Caroline Curtis went 9-over 81 in her first round of the season.
- Fellow sophomore Emilie Øverås notched eight consecutive pars before the back nine proved to be challenging. Øverås stands in a tie for 59th.
- For the first time, all five Alabama players played together in the same group in a tournament, due to the new format guidelines.
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— Alabama Women's Golf (@AlabamaWGolf) October 5, 2020
Round One Results
T6. Polly Mack, 72
T20. Kenzie Wright, 75
T44. Angelica Moresco, 79
T53. Caroline Curtis, 81
T59. Emilie Øverås, 83
Next Up
Alabama will open day two off hole No. 1 beginning at 9:03 a.m. CT. Golf Channel will provide live coverage of the event for all three rounds from 2:30-6:30 p.m. CT.
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