No. 2 Arkansas Jumps 10 Spots on Day 2, Tied for 12th After 36 Holes at NCAA Championship

CARLSBAD, Calif. – The second-ranked Arkansas women’s golf team went into the clubhouse after Saturday’s second round tied for 22nd and will tee off Sunday’s third round tied for 12th thanks to difficult course conditions for the Saturday afternoon wave of teams.

The top 15 placement also earned the Razorbacks one of the coveted morning tee time, when coastal winds are calmer and the greens aren’t dried out from the California sun.

Arkansas will be grouped with No. 3 South Carolina for the third straight day, and No. 10 Virginia. Sophomore Abbey Schutte (+14, T144) will get things going at 7:47 a.m. local time from the tenth hole.

The Hogs, who teed off at 6:30 a.m. ET, bested their round one score of 9-over with a 2-over 290 and three Razorbacks; Maria José Marin, Clarisa Temelo and Kendall Todd, shot an even 72. Junior Reagan Zibilski, whose round was dropped yesterday, bounced back with a 2-over 74.

José Marin (-2, T12) is one of 18 players under par out of the entire field of 159 players. The sophomore nearly finished Saturday at 1-under (3-under for the tournament) after a birdie at No. 17 but a tee shot into the water on the par-5 18th hole dropped her to even.

Temelo (+2, T33) jumped 31 spots to T33 with an even second round. The Queretaro, Mexico, native started the day 2-under through the first four holes but collected three bogeys during the remainder of the round and had Arkansas’ best shot of the day, with her tee shot on the par-3 12th within 3 feet of the hole. The birdie on 12 put her at 2-under again until bogeys on Nos. 13 and 17 dropped her to even.

Todd (+5, T67) also bounced back on day two and improved by five shots to jump 41 spots on the leaderboard. A double-bogey on the par-4 seventh hole put her at +2 with 11 holes to play but the senior rallied and birdied Nos. 8 and 9, bogeyed Nos. 13 and 14, and birdied Nos. 14 and 15.

Zibilski started the day with eight pars before her first blemish, a double bogey, at the ninth hole. Her only birdie of the day came on the course’s most difficult hole through 36 holes, the 13th, which has averaged 4.47 strokes. Only five players birdied the par-4 on day two.

Stanford, Arkansas’ other playing partner for days one and two, rose all the way up to first place via a 10-under par second round, the lowest team score of the day.

The Razorbacks

12. Maria José Marin 70-72=142 -2
T33. Clarisa Temelo 74-72=146 +2
T67. Kendall Todd 77-72=149 +5
T117. Reagan Zibilski 79-74=151 +7
T144. Abbey Schutte 76-82=158 +14

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