Lazaro Aleman
ECB Publishing, Inc.
The tweet from Auburn Women’s Golf on Friday afternoon, April 15, said it all:
“SEC individual runner-up!” it proclaimed. “With a final score of 207 (-9), Megan Schofill set the Auburn all-time 54-hole record at the SEC Championship.”
The SEC is the Southeast Conference, and Schofill is an ACA graduate and golf prodigy who was already setting records while still in high school here and who has since gone on to shine at Auburn University (AU).
According to AU reports, the school’s women’s golf team led wire-to-wire at the SEC Championship and won the stroke play portion of the tournament to earn the No. 1 seed in match. “The Tigers shot even-par in all three rounds,” the AU announcement said.
The last time that Auburn finished first in the stroke play was 2012, according to school sources.
Schofill, a junior at AU, reportedly fired a 70 (-2) in Friday’s third round, making for her third straight round under par and finishing second overall to earn the SEC individual stroke play runner-up honors. She also, as the AU tweet noted, set the Auburn all-time 54-hole record at the championship event.
“Her goal was to be top three individually and she accomplished that,” Auburn head coach Melissa Luellen is quoted saying in the AU article. “She played great and made a lot of putts this week. I’m just incredibly proud of her.”
Luellen added that notwithstanding a couple of hiccups here and there in the competition, Schofill had been there to pick up the team and lead it when it was needed, ultimately setting the pace.
“She absolutely did her job,” Luellen said.
All five Auburn players, in fact, finished inside the top 50 individually, according to the AU release. Schofill’s final individual scores were 70, 67 and 70 = 207
(-9).
On the previous day, Thursday, the Auburn women’s golf reportedly made 14 combined birdies on the front nine in the second round of the championship, making for a good start.
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