LPGA QUALIFYING SCHOOL STAGE 1 REPORT
LIZ NAGEL TAKES ROUTE 66 IN
CALIFORNIA TO HEAD FIELD OF 285
FROM THE LPGA TOUR WEBSITE
A total of 285 players have begun their quests for 2015 LPGA Tour Cards at Stage I of the LPGA Qualifying Tournament at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California, the first of the LPGA Tour’s three qualifying events in 2014.
The top-100 players and ties from this week will advance to the second stage of the LPGA Qualifying Tournament at Plantation Golf and Country Club in Venice, Florida from Sept. 30 – Oct. 4. A minimum of the top 80 and ties from Stage II will advance into the Final Qualifying Tournament over 90 holes from December 3 to 7 at the LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida. Top finishers in the final stage will earn 2015 LPGA membership.
Liz Nagel got off to a hot start with birdies on five of her first six holes and didn’t look back en route to a Day 1 66, the low round of the day. “It’s mostly about obviously advancing,” Nagel said of her approach to the week. “With so many girls it’s really just about you and the golf course. We call it our own little bubble and we just try to stay in our bubble and worry about ourselves.
"I obviously can’t control what 280 other girls are doing so I just want to do my best. I made eight birdies which was great. My putts were falling so it was fun.”
Nagel, who started on the back nine of the 6,525 yard, Palmer Course, birdied holes 10, 11, 13, 14 and 15 against a lone bogey on 12 to turn in 32.
Her putter was hot on the front nine as she started her day with six-consecutive one putts. On her second nine, Nagel posted three additional birdies against another lone bogey for a 34 to wrap up the impressive opening round 66.
Nagel is a recent graduate of Michigan State University with a degree in Hospitality Business,.
Nagel has battled more than just the struggles of an average golfer to get to this chapter of her golfing career as she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in November 2012 and had surgery in late December 2012.
Nagel, whose cancer is now in remission, only missed the first tournament of the 2013 spring season due to treatments and was in the starting lineup the remainder of the season.
Emily Tubert, the 2014 recipient of the Dinah Shore Trophy, was at Mission Hills shooting a 68, the low round of the day on the 6,544 yard Dinah Shore course.
“I feel like I just played really solid today,” Tubert said. “I really like the Dinah course. I feel like it sets up for my game pretty well.”
Tubert didn’t get off to a great start with a bogey on the 10th, her first hole of the day, but the Arkansas grad turned things around and caught fire right before the turn reeling off four consecutive brides on holes 18, 1, 2 and 3.
A bogey on the par-4 7th dropped Tubert back to 2-under for the round but she wrapped up her day with an exclamation mark, holing out from 42 yards for eagle on the par-5 ninth.
The Burbank, California, native cites her impressive length off the tee as one of the main keys to her success.
“I hit it really far so I think that gives me a huge advantage,” Tubert explained. “Actually, the two girls that I was playing with today had a conversation saying that I’m playing a different golf course than they are just because I’m in places that they aren’t and my 3-wood is going past their drivers.
"It is a different golf course when you’re hitting wedges and short irons into every green and the rest of the field is hitting in long irons and woods.”
Former US college player Rosie Davies (pictured right) from London, playing as an amateur, did best of the four English players in the first round.
Rosie had a 73 over the Palmer Course to be T47 overall.
Tara Dayer-Smith (Dinah Shore Course), former British girls champion Henrietta Zuel (Dinah Shore Course) and former British women's amateur champion at the age of 16, Lauren Taylor from Rugby, playing the Palmer Course, all had 81s to be T239.
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CALIFORNIA TO HEAD FIELD OF 285
FROM THE LPGA TOUR WEBSITE
A total of 285 players have begun their quests for 2015 LPGA Tour Cards at Stage I of the LPGA Qualifying Tournament at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California, the first of the LPGA Tour’s three qualifying events in 2014.
The top-100 players and ties from this week will advance to the second stage of the LPGA Qualifying Tournament at Plantation Golf and Country Club in Venice, Florida from Sept. 30 – Oct. 4. A minimum of the top 80 and ties from Stage II will advance into the Final Qualifying Tournament over 90 holes from December 3 to 7 at the LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida. Top finishers in the final stage will earn 2015 LPGA membership.
Liz Nagel got off to a hot start with birdies on five of her first six holes and didn’t look back en route to a Day 1 66, the low round of the day. “It’s mostly about obviously advancing,” Nagel said of her approach to the week. “With so many girls it’s really just about you and the golf course. We call it our own little bubble and we just try to stay in our bubble and worry about ourselves.
"I obviously can’t control what 280 other girls are doing so I just want to do my best. I made eight birdies which was great. My putts were falling so it was fun.”
Nagel, who started on the back nine of the 6,525 yard, Palmer Course, birdied holes 10, 11, 13, 14 and 15 against a lone bogey on 12 to turn in 32.
Her putter was hot on the front nine as she started her day with six-consecutive one putts. On her second nine, Nagel posted three additional birdies against another lone bogey for a 34 to wrap up the impressive opening round 66.
Nagel is a recent graduate of Michigan State University with a degree in Hospitality Business,.
Nagel has battled more than just the struggles of an average golfer to get to this chapter of her golfing career as she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in November 2012 and had surgery in late December 2012.
Nagel, whose cancer is now in remission, only missed the first tournament of the 2013 spring season due to treatments and was in the starting lineup the remainder of the season.
Emily Tubert, the 2014 recipient of the Dinah Shore Trophy, was at Mission Hills shooting a 68, the low round of the day on the 6,544 yard Dinah Shore course.
“I feel like I just played really solid today,” Tubert said. “I really like the Dinah course. I feel like it sets up for my game pretty well.”
Tubert didn’t get off to a great start with a bogey on the 10th, her first hole of the day, but the Arkansas grad turned things around and caught fire right before the turn reeling off four consecutive brides on holes 18, 1, 2 and 3.
A bogey on the par-4 7th dropped Tubert back to 2-under for the round but she wrapped up her day with an exclamation mark, holing out from 42 yards for eagle on the par-5 ninth.
The Burbank, California, native cites her impressive length off the tee as one of the main keys to her success.
“I hit it really far so I think that gives me a huge advantage,” Tubert explained. “Actually, the two girls that I was playing with today had a conversation saying that I’m playing a different golf course than they are just because I’m in places that they aren’t and my 3-wood is going past their drivers.
"It is a different golf course when you’re hitting wedges and short irons into every green and the rest of the field is hitting in long irons and woods.”
Former US college player Rosie Davies (pictured right) from London, playing as an amateur, did best of the four English players in the first round.
Rosie had a 73 over the Palmer Course to be T47 overall.
Tara Dayer-Smith (Dinah Shore Course), former British girls champion Henrietta Zuel (Dinah Shore Course) and former British women's amateur champion at the age of 16, Lauren Taylor from Rugby, playing the Palmer Course, all had 81s to be T239.
TO VIEW ALL THE SCORES
CLICK HERE
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