The day after the Oregon women’s golf team shot one-under par as a team, not one of the five Ducks golfers even got to even par during the second round of the Stanford Invitational on Saturday. The Ducks also saw their seven-stroke deficit to USC after round one turn into 28 strokes. Oregon now sits in sixth place.
The Ducks shot a 1-under 283 on Friday, leaving them tied for third with tournament host Stanford. In round two, Oregon didn’t come close to that mark in the, shooting a 9-over 293. The 10-stroke drop-off was easily the biggest from any of the 16 teams in the tournament from round one to two (seventh-place Northwestern was next closest, shooting six strokes worse on Saturday).
Individually, the Ducks were incredibly consistent from player to player in round two, but not with the good kind of consistency.
Freshman Cathleen Santoso was tied for fourth place in the 90-player field after shooting a 2-under 69 in round one, but she shot a 2-over 73 in the second round, dropping her to tied for 18th.
Junior Cali Hipp was one of the players tied with Santoso on Friday, but she fired a 4-over 75 on Saturday to fall to tied for 28th. Hipp’s 75 was the worst score from all five Oregon players in round two.
Tied with Hipp at 28th is fellow junior Cassy Isagawa, who also shot a 73 in the second round.
The third 73 from the Ducks on the day came from Caroline Inglis, leaving her tied for 41st. The sophomore was one of two Oregon players to shoot a better round two score than round one (Inglis shot a 74 on Friday).
The other was Marcella Pranovia, who rebounded from first-round 82 to fire a second-round 74. She finished alone in 80th place.
The Trojans (currently at 20-under through two rounds) have an eight-stroke lead over second-place UCLA, who are the top-ranked team in the nation. The Bruins also shot the best overall round of the day with a 16-under 268.
The other teams ahead of the Ducks are No.19 Washington (2-under), No.9 Stanford (even) and No.12 Pepperdine (1-over).
The third and final round at Stanford University Golf Course tees off at 7:30 Sunday morning.