WGOLF: Baylor Women’s Golf Blows Away the Field in The Rainbow Wahine Invitational

[Roberts, Matt]

BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Oct. 27, 2021
Baylor Women’s Golf Blows Away the Field in The Rainbow Wahine Invitational
Baylor Claims the Top-Three Individual Sports En Route to Win
For more information contact: Matt Roberts, 254-227-2280, WM_Roberts at Baylor.ed<mailto:WM_Roberts at Baylor.edu>u

KAPOLEI, Hawaii – The Baylor women’s golf team won their 39th-team title in dominating fashion, winning the Rainbow Wahine Invitational by 30 shots.

Gurleen Kaur took home the individual title for the fourth time in her career, with a four-under 68 in the final round. She finished one stroke ahead of her teammate, Britta Snyder, at eight-under-par. Kaur and Snyder went back-and-forth, even sharing the lead for stretches, on the back-nine, before Gurleen closed with three birdies in her final four holes, to take the lead for good.

Snyder began the day with the lead and took it to the back nine, on Wednesday. After three bogeys in her first four holes on the back, Snyder rallied with two birdies in her final four holes to claim second place, her career-best finish.

Rosie Belsham finished just a shot behind Snyder in third-place, tying a career-best for the sophomore. Belsham got to four-under on her round, after a birdie at the par-4 10th hole. She eventually reached five-under with a birdie at the par-5 17th, before carding a 4-under 68 to complete the Baylor sweep of the top-three individual spots.

Freshman BaiMai Seema finished a solid week with her career-best round of 71 to finish in a tie for 12th. Seema started well for the second-straight day with birdies on two of the first three holes. As she made her turn to the back-nine at two-over for the round, she finished strong with six pars and three birdies to shoot the first under-par round of her collegiate career.

Antonia Matte shot a three-over 75 on Wednesday, but finished in a tie for 8th, the second top-10 finish in four starts to begin her college career.

Hannah Karg finished in a tie for 14th after a three-over 75 on Wednesday. She was the highest-finishing individual beating Hawaii’s Ting-Yu Liu by eight shots.

HIGHLIGHTS

•       The Bears led the field in par-3 (3.07), par-4 (4.00), and par-5 (4.67) scoring for the week

•       They played the par-4’s at even-par as a team which was 24 shots better than the second-best team, Idaho.

•       Baylor’s 64 birdies were the most in the field, 20 more than Santa Clara, who was second-best.

•       Gurleen Kaur took advantage of the par-5’s, playing them in eight-under this week, three shots better than her teammate Rosie Belsham who was second-best on the par-5’s.

•       Britta Snyder led the field in par-4 scoring at 3.83 (-5).

•       The Bears had four players finish with 10-or-more birdies

STAT OF THE DAY:

Baylor’s score of 841 was the fifth-lowest tournament score in program history.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

Head Coach Jay Goble -– “It was a great week for the team,” Goble said. “I’m especially happy for Gurleen [Kaur], Britta [Snyder], and Rosie [Belsham] who battled to the very end for the individual title. That is one of the things that makes this team so special, they are competitive with each other and that creates good play all around. We have a solid team and I’m very happy to end the fall on a high note.”

WHAT’S NEXT
Baylor will return to action on January 22nd, 2022 at the Desert Match Play at the Kierland Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona. For more information on Baylor Women’s Golf, follow @BaylorWGolf on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

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Matt Roberts | Associate Director of Athletic Communications | Baylor University
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