CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Ole Miss girls’s golf staff got here away with a event sweep within the staff’s season-opening fixture, because the Rebels battled their approach to incomes the 2022 Cougar Basic staff and particular person titles on Tuesday.
Ending with a three-round staff rating of 839 (-13), simply two strokes shy of the event document of 837, the Rebels had been an unstoppable pressure at Yeamans Corridor Membership on the week with the staff tallying 47 complete birdies, together with a tournament-high 188 pars.
“It is all the time a terrific feeling to start out the season out with a win,” head coach Kory Henkes mentioned. “We performed towards some robust competitors this week and our staff actually introduced the vitality. We struck the ball rather well this week, and we’re trying ahead to taking a day to benefit from the win earlier than getting again to work.”
A lot of the Rebels’ momentum on the week will be credited to Andrea Lignell. Lignell blazed the course in all three rounds of play en path to incomes her first profession medalist end at Ole Miss, ending 9-under par.
“I’m past happy with Andrea for successful her first collegiate occasion this week,” Henkes mentioned. “She has been enjoying some wonderful golf and that is nicely deserved. She places lots of time and vitality into her sport on a regular basis and I’ve little doubt this would be the kickstart to far more success.”
Lignell capped off her week on Tuesday together with her third-consecutive spherical within the 60s, capturing a 69 (-2) to say a one-stroke victory over the sphere. Her three-day rating of 204 ranks because the fourth-lowest in Cougar Basic historical past, in addition to a brand new career-low 54-hole complete for the Gothenburg, Sweden, native.
The double {hardware} end for the Rebels marks the staff’s first event sweep at an occasion since 2020 when Ole Miss received the East Lake Cup (Oct. 26-28, 2020), behind Insurgent co-champions Ellen Hume and Kennedy Swann. It additionally marks simply the ninth time in program historical past that the Rebels have achieved the feat.
The Insurgent duo of Ellen Hume and Natacha Host Husted additionally completed within the high 20 for the staff. Hume and Host Husted every ended their event with scores of 210 (-3) to complete tied for thirteenth. For Hume, the end marks her first return into the highest 20 since incomes an eighth place end on the 2021 East Lake Cup final October.
Host Husted earns the fourth top-20 end of her younger profession, together with her three-round complete of 210 standing as a brand new career-high 54-hole rating as nicely, besting her earlier mark of 218 from the 2022 Gators Invitational.
Elle Johnson and Ellen Hutchinson-Kay rounded out the championship rotation for the Rebels, with Johnson and Hutchinson-Kay every capturing 74 (+3) on day two to assist the staff clinch the Cougar Basic victory.
Johnson ends her Insurgent debut with a thirty fourth place end individually together with her closing rating of 215 (+2). Hutchinson-Kay’s three-day rating of 217 (+4) earned the senior a share of forty fifth place, in addition to her greatest 54-hole rating since capturing 218 on the 2019 Golfweek Convention Problem.
The Rebels will now have the rest of the month of September off earlier than heading to Fayetteville, Arkansas for the annual Blessings Collegiate Invitational, Oct. 3-5. All three days of the Blessings could have protection out there on Golf Channel.
1. Andrea Lignell: 67-68-69–204 (-9)
T13. Ellen Hume: 71-68-71–210 (-3)
T13. Natacha Host Husted: 69-71-70–210 (-3)
T34. Elle Johnson: 70-71-74–215 (+2)
T45. Ellen Hutchinson-Kay: 72-71-74–217 (+4)
1. Ole Miss: 277-278-284–839 (-13)
2. Clemson: 288-275-277–840 (-12)
3. Faculty of Charleston: 281-288-280–849 (-3)
4. Florida State: 278-286-286–850 (-2)
T5. Miami: 282-284-286–852 (E)
T5. Michigan State: 281-283-288–852 (E)
7. Tennessee: 281-285-287–853 (+1)
8. UCF: 290-281-283–854 (+2)
9. Georgia: 289-277-290–856 (+4)
T10. NC State: 285-278-298–861 (+9)
T10. Wisconsin: 295-279-287–861 (+9)
T12. Penn State: 289-291-282–862 (+10)
T12. Illinois: 285-286-291–862 (+10)
14. Kentucky: 287-292-287–866 (+14)
15. Furman: 293-290-285–868 (+16)
16. North Carolina: 290-296-287–873 (+21)
17. Louisville: 298-290-292–880 (+28)
18. East Carolina: 297-302-305–904 (+52)
