Alabama
LANDFALL TRADITION
Two Finish Inside Top 10 to Lead Alabama at the Landfall Tradition
10/30/2022 3:27:00 PM | Women's Golf
Benedetta Moresco and Sarah Edwards tied for ninth place with matching scores of 4-under 212
WILMINGTON, N.C. – Alabama golfers Benedetta Moresco and Sarah Edwards tied for ninth overall to lead the women's golf team at the Landfall Tradition, which concluded play Sunday afternoon. The Crimson Tide closed play in the three-day, 54-hole tournament tied for 11th place with a team total of 881 (293-290-298).
Individually, Moresco (74-66-72) and Edwards (71-69-72) ended play with matching scores of 4-under par 212 on the par 72, 6,150-yard Country Club of Landfall – Dye Course. It marked the best finish in Edwards' career, and first career top-10 result, while Moresco collected her first top-10 finish of the year and 10th of her career.
From Head Coach Mic Potter
"At the beginning, we knew it was going to be a process this year. Each player has certainly had their ups and downs this fall. We have to take the ups and not only maintain them but improve on them. And we will really need to address the downs this winter. The most important thing that we got out of the fall season is that we know who and what we are. Heading into the winter, every hour that's available to us until the spring season begins in February will have to be used wisely and efficiently so that we can make those improvements."
Tournament Highlights
- Sarah Edwards' 4-under 212 marked the second-best 54-hole total in her UA career
- Her best tournament score came earlier in the year at the Illini Women's Invitational (206)
- Edwards' par 3 average of 2.83 (-2) throughout the weekend ranked third-best among in the field
- Benedetta Moresco, whose second round score of 66 was her best mark of the season, earned her first top-10 finish since a fourth-place result at the NCAA Franklin Regional
- She closed the tournament with 14 birdies across the 54 holes played, which tied for fourth among all individuals
- Additionally, Edwards and Moresco 4.58 (-5) par 5 average tied for second-best in the field
- Kynadie Adams was the next best Crimson Tide finisher as she tied for 68th with a 10-over 226 (72-77-77)
- Taylor Kehoe (76-82-77/235) and Isabella van der Biest (81-78-80/239) round out the Crimson Tide lineup in 89th and 92nd, respectively
The Field
- No. 9 San Jose State (-22, 842) led wire-to-wire to claim the team trophy by six strokes over No. 2 Wake Forest (-16, 848)
- No. 18 Florida State (-15. 849 finished third, followed by No. 4 South Carolina (-12, 852) and No. 26 UCF (+3, 867) round out the top-five teams
- The 18-team field featured 10 teams ranked among the top 40 in the nation
- The tournament was the final event of the fall season
- Alabama will return to action next spring when it competes at the Moon Golf Invitational in Melbourne Fla., Feb. 19-21, 2023
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