Tir, Sung Lead Women to Second at Quinnipiac After Two Rounds

Monday, October 9

Wallingford, Conn. / The Farms Club

8:30 AM

Dartmouth College

Quinnipiac Classic

Penelope Tir golfing at Ivy Championship

Senior Penelope Tir

Photo by: The Ivy League/Sideline Photos

Tir, Sung Lead Women to Second at Quinnipiac After Two Rounds

10/9/2023 8:57:00 PM | Women's Golf

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The duo are tied for fifth, two strokes off the pace

By: Rick Bender

WALLINGFORD, Conn. — Seniors Katherine Sung and Penelope Tir finished up the first two rounds of the Quinnipiac Classic with a 5-over 149 on Monday at The Farms Club, helping the Dartmouth women's golf team close out the 36 holes in second place at 29-over par (301-304—605). Only host Quinnipiac (599, +23) had a better day on the course to hold a six-stroke lead, with St. John's (+36), Yale (+37) and Penn (+43) rounding out the top five in the 12-team field.

After a cool morning, Tir warmed up in the afternoon by supplying the tournament's best round in the 73-player field, carding a 3-under 69 in the second round as she shaved 11 strokes off her morning total. Her second tour of the course started with a bogey, but she shook it off and found a groove with seven pars and a birdie over the rest of the front nine to reach the turn at even par. Over the final nine, she really turned it on with four more birdies and four pars to climb 23 places on the leaderboard into a tie for fifth, just two strokes off the pace.

Meanwhile, Sung began the morning with a 2-over 74 thanks to three birdies and 11 pars, leaving her tied for third after 18 holes. She proceeded to add three more birdies to her ledger along with nine more pars in the second round to shoot a 75 (+3) and enter the clubhouse tied with Tir in fifth place.

"I thought the greens were a bit slippery with some challenging pin locations," said Alex Kirk, Dartmouth's Carolyn A. Pelzel '54a Head Coach of Women's Golf. "Being below the cup was at a premium with those conditions. Overall, I am very pleased with how the team battled through some adversity and never gave up."

The other three Dartmouth golfers all tied for 23rd place at 13-over par (157), though they got there in rather different ways. Sophomore Hope Hall enjoyed the cooler weather in the morning and was in second place thanks to a 1-over 73 that featured three birdies and 12 pars. But she struggled in the second round, save for the only eagle turned in by any golfer in either round.

Freshman Caroline Chung made par on more holes (25) than all but two other competitors over the two rounds to go with a solitary birdie as she turned in scores of 80-77—157. And sophomore Sophie Thai battled the course all day but could not tame it, though she did manage to sink a pair of birdies in each round.

In addition, freshman Victoria Tan saw her first collegiate action, playing as an individual, and was just one stroke behind her trio of teammates with a 14-over 158. Her best stretch came in the first round when she made par for six consecutive holes before dropping a birdie on the next.

The final round will start on Tuesday at 8 a.m., though the Dartmouth group will get underway starting at 9:30 a.m. when Hall is scheduled to tee off.

Notes: Dartmouth is in a familiar place having finished second in each of its first two fall tournaments … Tir's 69 was one stroke shy of tying the school record for lowest round in relation to par, set last month by Sung with a 67 (-4) at the Princeton Invitational.