Kent State’s Veronika Kedroňová leads particular person competitors at 6-under; three gamers share prime spot within the Crew Canada – NextGen Choice Camp
AURORA, Ont. – The Kent State Golden Flashes opened a three-shot lead over the Auburn Tigers within the first spherical of the Girls’s Canadian Collegiate Invitational with a rating of 7-under par.
Unbothered by the morning’s inclement climate that delayed Monday’s opening spherical by practically two hours, the Golden Flashes have been capable of capitalize on a beneficial again 9 to assist set the tempo throughout the first-ever spherical of the Girls’s Canadian Collegiate Invitational.
Starting her spherical on the fifth gap of a shotgun begin, Veronika Kedroňová of Roznov pod Radhostem, Czech Republic led the cost for the Golden Flashes. Regular all through the complete spherical, Kedroňová made seven birdies to drag her approach into the outright lead of the person leaderboard.
“We have now an incredible crew tradition,” commented Kedroňová following her spherical of 66 on Monday. “I don’t know what number of groups have that form of friendship now we have on our crew and we’re actually collectively and enjoying for one another quite than simply attempting to submit our personal scores,” she added.
Kedroňová, a member of the Czech Republic nationwide golf crew and ranked throughout the prime 200 of the World Newbie Golf Rankings (WAGR), began her opening spherical on the fifth gap and grabbed the outright lead after rolling in back-to-back birdie putts on Nos. 15 and 16 to get to 5-under. A bogey on the 18th can be the one pace bump to Kedroňová’s spherical, navigating across the blemish with rapid birdies on the par-4 second and par-5 fourth to assist take a two-stroke edge over Auburn’s Anne Fernandez of Singapore.
The Czech worldwide appears to be like to maintain her sport plan the identical heading into Tuesday’s last spherical, sustaining the iron play and placing that led her to a low spherical on Monday. Her play with the flatstick was the key takeaway for the event’s chief by means of 18 holes, having not too long ago adjusted her placing forward of the collegiate season.
“For me it’s only a matter of rolling the ball. [Today] I’d rise up to the inexperienced when it was form of shut and I simply tried to roll it someplace, and it might simply find yourself within the gap,” Kedroňová commented.
Previous to Kedroňová ending her opening spherical on the fourth, her Kent State teammate Leon Takagi of Tokyo, Japan briefly held the clubhouse lead at 3-under, having labored round a double-bogey on the par-5 seventh with birdies on Nos. 9, 12, 14,16 and 4 to show her day round and keep inside hanging distance of her teammate.
Notably, Takagi and Kedroňová are joined within the prime ten of the person leaderboard by one other considered one of their teammates, Isabella Goyette of Medina, Ohio. Goyette pieced collectively a 2-under 70 to spherical out the trio of Golden Flashes within the prime ten.
Madison Messimer of Myrtle Seaside, S.C. and Charlotte Cantonis of Tampa, Fla. will begin the ultimate spherical alongside Takagi at 3-under, three pictures off the tempo. A gaggle of 5 gamers sit a shot behind at 2-under par.
Enjoying within the Crew Canada Choice Camp operating concurrently with this week’s Girls’s Canadian Collegiate Invitational, Nobelle Park of Oakville, Ont., Clairey Lin of Langley, B.C. and Jodie Han of Vancouver, B.C. all pieced collectively rounds of 73 to every seize a share of the lead heading into Tuesday’s last spherical.
The trio will look to separate from each other with a assured spot on the 2026 Crew Canada – NextGen crew awarded to the occasion’s winner. Alongside the collegiate gamers, this group will probably be a part of a 9 a.m. native time shotgun begin on Tuesday.
Resulting from heavy rain delaying the beginning of Monday’s opening spherical, event organizers have shortened each tournaments from 54 holes to 36 in an effort to make sure a well timed end.
Co-hosted by the College of Michigan and Kent State College, the inaugural championship options 9 further NCAA Division I groups and the College of British Columbia (UBC) Thunderbirds, the latter sitting in eleventh by means of 18 holes at 20-over par.
The winner of the person competitors on Tuesday will obtain an exemption into the 2026 CPKC Girls’s Open, whereas the highest 5 finishers – together with the winner – will nab exemptions into the 2026 Canadian Girls’s Newbie Championship, introduced by BDO, set to descend on The Toronto Golf Membership in Mississauga, Ont. for the 112th enjoying of the occasion.
To view the total leaderboard from the opening spherical of the Girls’s Canadian Collegiate Invitational, please click on right here. For an up to date leaderboard and tee instances from the Crew Canada – NextGen Choice Camp, please click on right here.
