Transfer Kilcrease wins Carmel Cup for Cowgirls; Sooners seventh
Pebble Beach, Calif. – Making her debut for the Oklahoma State women’s golf team, Grace Kilcrease won the individual title at the Carmel Cup on Sunday afternoon.
Kilcrease fired another stellar round, this time shooting a 69. The round consisted of six birdies with four coming on the final nine. She finished one stroke ahead of Arkansas’ Maria Jose Marin.
The Cowgirl becomes the 104th individual champion in program history, with the last individual title coming courtesy of Maddison Hinson-Tolchard at the 2022 Big 12 Championship. This is the junior transfer from Tulsa’s first-ever collegiate tournament victory.
As a team, OSU finished fifth, shooting a final round score of 375. They outperformed the two other Big 12 schools, TCU and Texas Tech, as well as Oklahoma, who they’ll meet again at the Schooner Fall Classic in Norman in late September. They landed 26 strokes behind team champion Vanderbilt.
Sophomore Ellie Bushnell finished the tournament with a solid round of 72. Summer Lee closed out her first-ever collegiate tournament with an eagle on hole six. Sammie Miller and Thitaporn Saithip finished with a 77 and 79, respectively, while Freshman Lucy Darr shot a 79.
The Cowgirls will be back in action for the Schooner Fall Classic in Norman on Sep. 21.
Oklahoma concluded the Carmel Cup in seventh (84-over, 1,159), and junior Savannah Barber secured a top-20 finish, firing a 1-under 71 and placing 18th (+10, 221).
Barber tallied rounds of 77-78-71. The Fort Worth, Texas product recorded four birdies in the third round and tallied the lone round under par by a Sooner. Barber recorded birdies on the second and sixth hole before a bogey on the ninth, finishing the front nine 1-under 35. She tallied two additional birdies on the 11th and 15th holes, moving up 12 spots on the day.
Junior Isabelle Schlick tied for 26th and tallied rounds of 76-79-75, recording her best round on Sunday. Schlick drained her lone birdie on the 18th, finishing the back nine even par 36.
Senior Reagan Chaney and sophomore Emily Hun tied for 36th (20-over, 236). Hun tallied the third-best round by a Sooner, firing a 4-over 76, while Chaney tallied a 5-over 77 in the final round. Hun recorded a trio of birdies on the front nine, including back-to-back on the second and third holes. Chaney drained two consecutive birdies on the sixth and seventh.
Junior Makayla Tyrrell and freshman Audrey Rischer rounded out the Oklahoma lineup, finishing 44th (27-over, 243) and 47th (29-over, 245), respectively. Tyrrell carded her lone birdie of the day on the 15th hole and tallied rounds of 84-82-77. After rounds of 82-77, Rischer concluded the tournament with a 14-over 86.
Oklahoma will host the Schooner Fall Classic at Belmar Golf Club in Norman Sept. 21-23.
Team Leaderboard:
1. Vanderbilt (+21)- 368-370-363- 1101
2. Arkansas (+23)- 361-375-367- 1103
3. Mississippi State (+27)- 363-369-375- 1107
4. Texas A&M (+37)- 368-371-376- 1115
5. Oklahoma State (+47)- 381-371-375- 1127
6. TCU (+48)- 380-378-370- 1128
7. Oklahoma (+84)- 397-391-376- 1164
8. Texas Tech (+89)- 390-388-391- 1169
OSU Individual Leaderboard:
1. Grace Kilcrease (-7)- 68-72-69- 209
T12. Ellie Bushnell (+6)- 80-70-72- 222
T30. Thitaporn Saithip (+17)- 79-77-77- 233
T33. Sammie Miller (+18)- 74-81-79- 234
T41. Summer Lee (+21)- 80-77-80- 237
T41. Lucy Darr (+21)- 84-75-78- 237