On moving day of the NCAA Championships, the Florida women’s golf team continued to fall on the leaderboard.
The Gators finished Thursday with a 305 (+17) and a three-day total of 902 (+38).
“We were doing a lot of things right, but we’re beating ourselves with silly mistakes that are easily correctable,” coach Emily Bastel said in a release.
“If we can fix that, we’ll be ahead of the game, because we’ve been doing a lot of the difficult things well."
For senior Mia Piccio, the highest Gator on the individual leaderboard, Round 3 went from steady to erratic.
After her first 14 holes, Piccio was one-under par. Her string of success came to a halt after a three-hole stretch that included two bogeys and a triple bogey, ballooning her score to three over. Piccio birdied hole No. 18 to finish the round at 75 (+3).
While the senior tied for in the best score for a UF golfer on Thursday, sophomore Anna Young was unable to find her groove – shooting four bogeys and two double bogeys.
Young notched two birdies, including one on hole No. 18 – a hole three of five Gator golfers birdied Thursday. She tied her second-round score, shooting a 78 (+6).
The Gators head into the final round of competition with different goals than they had entering the first. An NCAA title looks out of reach for Florida as it sits 23rd – second to last – on the team leaderboard.
"We just need to analyze what we’re doing wrong and try to build some momentum to end on a high note before these girls go into their summer play and into next fall,” Bastel said.
