AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. – Alberte Thuesen carded a 67, tied for the second-lowest round of the tournament, and the Georgia Southern women's golf team shot a school-record 286 to finish eighth at the Amelia Island Collegiate Tuesday at Amelia Island National Golf Club.
The Eagles' team score was the second-lowest of the day, and they moved five places up the leaderboard. FGCU held off North Florida by a stroke to win the tournament, and Stetson finished third. GS was three strokes out of a tie for fifth and a stroke behind seventh-place Lipscomb.
Savanah Satterfield carded a career-best 72, and
Madison Heideman posted a 73.
Ella Ofstedahl and
Sarah Noonan each shot 74. Thuesen posted her fourth top-10 finish of the year by tying for ninth, while Ofstedahl tied for 19th and Heideman tied for 25th.
The story
Thuesen started her day with an eagle on the par-5, 455-yard 15th and birdied two of her next three holes to move to 4-under. She added three straight birdies on 6, 7 and 8 and finished the day with three consecutive pars.
Georgia Southern combined to play the 15th hole 6-under as Satterfield posted an eagle, while Noonan and Heideman carded birdies there. Satterfield played her final six holes 3-under, and Noonan capped her tournament with consecutive birdies.
Heideman made par on her first 10 holes and played her last six 1-under with birdies at 11 and 15. Ofstedahl was 1-under after five holes and finished her day with a birdie.
Scores
Team – 303-301-286=890 (+26), 8
Alberte Thuesen – 75-74-67=216 (E), T9
Ella Ofstedahl – 73-73-74=220 (+4), T19
Madison Heideman – 72-77-73=222 (+6), T25
Savanah Satterfield – 83-77-72=232 (+16), 61
Sarah Noonan – 84-77-74=235 (+19), T65
Quotables from Coach Emily Kuhfeld
"I'm very proud of the entire team effort today. To break our program single-day record after the kind of day we had yesterday shows the GATA and heart these five have. A special shout out to Alberte for climbing the leaderboard with a fearless 67 today. Madi had another very steady and confident round, Savanah eagled her last hole to shoot even par, and Ella and Sarah hang on to shoot 74s today."
"We have some work to do before our next event, but we couldn't have asked for more today to leave that event on a positive note to move forward."
Up Next
The Eagles start a stretch of four events in four weeks when they travel to the UNF Collegiate March 9-10 in Jacksonville, Florida, at the Jacksonville Golf and Country Club.
