The University of Kentucky women’s golf team is in first place after two rounds in the NEXUS Collegiate Tournament at the Albany Golf Club, in Nassau, Bahamas.
Through two rounds, all six wildcat golfers are in the top 20 of the individual leaderboard, out of the 66 individual golfers in attendance. The team is sitting at three over par for the tournament, three strokes ahead of Iowa State, who is in second, and seven strokes ahead of third place North Texas.
Senior All-American Laney Frye leads the Wildcats at two under par, and sits at second in the tournament. She is three shots behind leader Isabel Sy. Frye is looking for her first individual title.
Also in the top 20 for the Wildcats are Jensen Castle, who is tied for fifth at even par, Marissa Wenzler, who is tied for tenth at two over par and then Marta López Echevarría, María Villanueva Aperribay and Cathryn Brown who are all tied for twentieth at five over par.
The final round of the tournament tees off at 8 am EST on Wednesday, February 14th. The team is looking for their first win of the season and their third in the past two seasons.