Ólafia Þórunn made it to the NCAA Championship
Icelander Ólafía Þórunn Kristinsdóttir, GR, took part along with Wake Forest´s golfteam in the NCAA D1 Central Regional which was being held at Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club, in Austin, Oklahoma May 9.-11 2013. The tournament´s finalround took place the day before yesterday. Participants in the tournament were 126 from 24 Universities.
Ólafía Þórunn made it to the NCAA Championship, since she finished in joined 8th place and played the best of her team mates at Wake Forest.
We are all extremely proud of her, here in Iceland!
You can read an excerpt from an article on the tournament on Wake Forests home page:
„Wake Forest junior Ólafía Kristinsdóttir fired a 3-under 69 in the final round of the NCAA Central Regional and earned one of the two individual qualifying spots for the NCAA Championship.
Kristinsdottir made six birdies and just one bogey through the first 14 holes on Saturday and was 5-under par. She then made a couple of pars and hit her drive down the middle of the 18th fairway. As she was walking to her ball, the officials halted play for lightning in the area.
After a delay of two hours, Kristinsdottir hit her third shot on the par-5 18th into the water that fronted the green. She would go onto to make double-bogey on the hole and finish with a 69. That put her in a tie with Washington’s Ying Luo at 1-under par for the tournament. Both players claimed the two individual qualifying spots.
This was the first tournament of Kristinsdottir’s career in which she finished under-par. Her previous career-best 54-hole finish was 3-over par which she did on a couple of occasions. She is also the sixth Demon Deacon to qualify for the NCAA Championship as an individual.
As a team, the Deacons knew they needed a special round on Saturday and it just wasn’t there. Wake closed with a final round 301 and finished in 14th place in the 24-team field. The Deacs were 37-over par which was 17-shots behind Michigan State who grabbed the eighth and final qualifying spot.”
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