Mississippi State’s Avery Weed tied an NCAA report on Monday on the Bulldogs’ dwelling occasion.
Weed, a sophomore from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, fired an 11-under 61 within the opening spherical of The Ally at Outdated Waverly Golf Membership, matching the bottom spherical in relation to par in NCAA historical past.
Beforehand, 5 gamers have shot 11 underneath, together with North Carolina State’s Lauren Olivares Leon, who final fall shot 11-under 60 on the Cougar Traditional to set a brand new NCAA scoring report. Weed is now the sixth participant to card 61 and first since Michigan’s Cash Chun did so on the Princeton Invitational final spring.
Weed’s record-tying spherical, which broke Mississippi State’s program report by two photographs, included no bogeys, 5 birdies and three eagles on par-5s. Weed performed Outdated Waverly’s 4 par-5s in a mixed 7 underneath.
Weed, who gained the 2023 Mississippi State Beginner earlier than coming to highschool, notched her first school win earlier this fall on the Mason Rudolph Championship and has but to complete worse than T-11 in three earlier begins this semester.
She’ll enter Tuesday’s second spherical seven photographs forward of Auburn’s Katie Cranston, Vanderbilt’s Sara Im and Southern Mississippi’s Ragini Navet. Mississippi State, enjoying with out its finest participant Julia Lopez Ramirez due to LPGA Qualifying, trails Vanderbilt by one on the staff leaderboard.
Here’s a have a look at the bottom rounds in NCAA ladies’s golf historical past:
• 11-under 60, Lauren Olivares Leon, N.C. State, 2023 Cougar Traditional
• 11-under 61, Esther Lee, Colorado, 2016 Dick Maguire Invitational
• 11-under 61, Bianca Pagdanganan, Gonzaga, 2017 Pizza Hut Thunderbird Invitational
• 11-under 61, Julia Johnson, Ole Miss, 2019 Battle on the Seaside
• 11-under 61, Anna Zanusso, Denver, 2020 Westbrook Invitational
• 10-under 61, Mariah Stackhouse, Stanford, 2013 Peg Barnard Invitational
• 10-under 61, Monet Chun, Michigan, 2024 Princeton Invitational
