Kent State University
Lady Puerto Rico Classic
No. 22 Women's Golf Finishes Third in Elite Field at Lady Puerto Rico Classic
2/13/2018 4:40:00 PM | Women's Golf
RIO GRANDE, P.R. – Kent State's 22nd-ranked women's golf team finished in third place and left Rio Mar Country Club with some valuable insight following Tuesday's final round of the Lady Puerto Rico Classic.
The Flashes shot a 19-over-par 303 to post a three-round total of 45-over that was 15 shots behind tournament champion and No. 4-ranked Arkansas. No. 26 Iowa finished second at 40-over. Nationally-ranked programs finishing behind Kent State in the elite 11-team field included No. 43 North Carolina State in fourth place, No. 19 Colorado in fifth, No. 38 East Carolina in seventh, and No. 17 Purdue in 10th.
"We beat a lot of good teams and were in the hunt with the No. 4 team in the country all week," said Kent State head coach Greg Robertson. "It's definitely good to see us compete like that in our first stroke play tournament of the spring. We got to see where we are and figured out some of the things we will need to improve on. Playing with Arkansas for three rounds showed us we are close but need to make some improvements in certain areas like course management."
Pimnipa Panthong (74-75-72–221) led Kent State with a fifth-place individual finish, matching the second best round of the day with a 1-over-par 72.
"Pim played solid, especially after starting off with a double bogey on the first hole," said Robertson. "The conditions were very difficult again with the wind, but Pim came back, kept playing hard, and kept moving up the leaderboard."
The Flashes finished with three players in the top 15 of the individual leaderboard, including Michaela Finn (71-76-77–224) in a tie for ninth place and Karoline Stormo (71-79-76–226) in a tie for 13th. Chloe Salort (76-75-78–229) finished alone in 25th place.
"This was Chloe's first stroke-play event as a college golfer," said Robertson. "She got off to a tough start in the final round, but held it together for a counting score for us…As a team, our ball striking wasn't bad. We made a lot of birdies and had an eagle. We'll have some individual meetings when we get back and talk about what we need to work on over the next week and a half before we get back out there in Houston."
Kent State travels to Texas Feb. 26-27 for The Dickson hosted by the University of Houston at The Woodlands Country Club's Tournament Course.
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