Women's Golf Finishes 6th at Idle Hour Collegiate Championship

Tuesday, October 31

Macon, Ga. (Idle Hour Golf & CC)

8:45 a.m.

University of North Florida

Idle Hour Collegiate Championship

Kaye Kwon head shot posted over a photo of Idle Hour Country Club

Women's Golf Finishes 6th at Idle Hour Collegiate Championship

10/31/2017 2:30:00 PM | Women's Golf

By: North Florida Athletics

EVENT: Idle Hour Collegiate Championship
DATE: Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017
LOCATION: Idle Hour Country Club (Macon, Ga.)
COURSE INFO: Par 72 / 6,166 yards
UNF FINISH: 6th of 11 teams
TOP OSPREY: Kaye Kwon (78-76-75=229 | T9)
Final Results (pdf)
Birdiefire Leaderboard

The short story: The North Florida women's golf team fired a final round 307 and climbed to a sixth-place finish at the Idle Hour Collegiate Championship on Tuesday in Macon. Ga. Junior Kaye Kwon and sophomore Sydney Shrader both carded rounds of 75 to lead the way for the Ospreys in their fall season finale.

FIRST TEE
- Kaye Kwon and Sydney Shrader both shot rounds of 75 on the final day marking the low scores of the tournament for UNF
- Kwon earned her first career Top 10 showing as an Osprey, finishing T9 with a 54-hole tally of 229
- Sophomore Teresa Conroy closed with a 79 to finish T31 at 237
- Shrader's solid final round vaulted her into a tie for 34th with freshman Mindy Herrick at 238. Herrick carded a second straight round of 80 on Tuesday
- Senior Courtney Cobb rounded out the North Florida lineup with a 78 en route to a T40 (239) finish
- Redshirt freshman Natalia Rivera, who was making her collegiate debut, played as an individual and earned a T64 (259) finish
- The Ospreys recorded a three-round total of 938

TEAM SCOREBOARD
Mercer (907), Western Kentucky (916), Eastern Kentucky (923), Rutgers (925), Troy (928), North Florida (938), James Madison (939), Cincinnati (940), Elon (950), Samford (956), Georgia Southern (966)

UNF RESULTS

6	North Florida	321	310	307	938 (+74)
T9	Kaye Kwon	78	76	75	229 (+13)
T31	Teresa Conroy	82	76	79	237 (+21)
T34	Mindy Herrick	78	80	80	238 (+22)
T34	Sydney Shrader	83	80	75	238 (+22)
T40	Courtney Cobb	83	78	78	239 (+23)
T64	Natalia Rivera (IND)	85	85	89	259 (+43)

INSIDE THE SCORECARD
- Kwon was the lone UNF golfer to finish with all her rounds in the 70s... She was also just one of two Ospreys to improve each round of the event
- UNF's final round was the only time that all four counting scores were in the 70s
- Ospreys totalled 139 pars over the three rounds led by 31 from Conroy
- UNF netted 21 birdies with Shrader topping the squad with 6 red-number holes
- Eastern Kentucky's Hannabeth Owens and Mercer's Payton Schanen finished as co-medalist with matching scores of 222

UP NEXT
North Florida will take about three months off from competition during a winter break before returning to the links at the Amelia Island Collegiate on Feb. 19-20, 2018.