Wisconsin Starts Lady Razorback Invitational Tied for Eleventh
October 17, 2004 | Women's Golf
Wisconsin opened the Lady Razorback Invitational in Rogers, Ark. with a score of 317 to tie fellow Big Ten school Iowa in eleventh-place, twenty strokes behind leader Iowa State (297). Host and defending champion Arkansas trails the Cyclones by six strokes (303). Michigan owns the conference's highest first-day finish among the 19-team field in fourth-place (306) at the par-72, 6,015-yard Pinnacle Country Club.
Nicki Morse shot a solid opening-round four over-par 76 to earn a 16th-place tie with Iowa State's Crisi Athas. Lindsay McMillan and Mayumi Kobayashi, performing two strokes below her average, rounded out Wisconsin's top-50 presence in a 43rd-place tie with six others at seven over-par 79.
Melissa Martin follows in 66th-place at 11 over-par 83 along with seven others. Kate Elliott trails Martin by one stroke and is tied with 12 others at 84.
Iowa State's Lisa Meshke finished one-stroke off the meet 's individual single round score, tying three past players at two under-par 70. The record was set by Nevada's Angie Yoon in 1999 (69).
The 19 teams come back to the course Monday morning at 8:30 a.m. for the second round of Lady Razorback Invitational action.
