Mississippi State Completes Opening Round of Carmel Cup

Friday, September 2

Pebble Beach, Calif

Mississippi State

Carmel Cup

Mississippi State Completes Opening Round of Carmel Cup

September 02, 2022 | Women's Golf

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By: Lance Pardue, Student Assistant/Communications

Pebble Beach, Calif. – The first 18 holes of the 2022-23 season have been carded from Pebble Beach. After the first round of play, the Bulldogs are sixth (380, 20-over) and three shots back of the No. 24 ranked Raiders of Texas Tech (377, 17-over).

On a messy day at Pebble Beach, defending national champion and consensus No. 1 Stanford shares the 18-hole lead with No. 11 Texas A&M after the first round. Both the Cardinal and Aggies shot a team score of 358 (-2 overall).

No. 15 Oklahoma State finished third after carding a six-over team round of 366, while No. 22 Arkansas is five shots back at +11 overall (371) in fourth. No. 50 Oklahoma (+24) and No. 33 Vanderbilt (+32) round out the eight-team field.

The Bulldogs were led throughout the day by Julia Lopez Ramirez and Abbey Daniel who both carded top-10 performances in the first round.

Lopez Ramirez began her sophomore campaign by turning in her 22^nd under-par round in the maroon and white with a 1-under 71 first round. On the front nine, Lopez Ramirez started with five straight pars before sinking her first birdie of the season on hole 6 before adding two more on holes 12 and 14 to finish even on the back nine. In 36 career rounds at MSU, 22 of them from Lopez Ramirez have been par or better.

Daniel finished tied for ninth with an even-par score of 72. Daniel used a strong stretch of eight straight pars on the back nine followed by a birdie on hole 18 to finish in the top-10. Throughout the first 18 holes of the season, Daniel parred a round high 14 of them.

Ashley Gilliam finished the day tied for 27^th with a 77 (5-over) first round. The senior found her groove on holes 3-12, sinking a birdie and parring 9.

Hannah Levi birdied on holes 4 and 12 to finish tied for 33^rdwith 7-over (79). The fifth-year Bulldog finished the first round with 3.00 (E) when it came to par-3 scoring, the third best of the round.

In her first team event with the Bulldogs, Jarutrawee Khotchagrai sunk the only eagle of the first day of the Carmel Cup on hole 6. After sinking the first eagle of the 2022-23 season for State, Khotchagrai finished tied for 42^nd with 9-over (81).

Izzy Pellot, who made her collegiate debut Friday, carded an 82 in her first round at State to finish tied for 46^th.

Head Coach Charlie Ewing on the First Round
"We have come into this season and this week with a mindset of wanting to become a team that embraces the opportunity to perform when circumstances aren't ideal," Ewing said. "We want to be able to still find a way to score even when we don't have our best day. For a good portion of the round, we did a really nice job of that. Abbey [Daniel] and Julia [Lopez Ramirez] did a great job of just keeping things steady and playing really solid rounds for us when we needed them. Nothing changes for us going forward. Tomorrow, we continue forward with the same mindset and have a lot of confidence that it will be a really good day for us."

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The Carmel Cup
Mississippi State                   Place   Rd. 1
Ashley Gilliam                       T27      77 (+5)
Hannah Levi                           T33      79 (+7)
Izzy Pellot                               T46      82 (+10)
Abbey Daniel                         T9        72 (E)
Jarutrawee Khotchagrai          T42      81 (+9)
Julia Lopez Ramirez               8          71 (-1)

The Rundown:
Carmel Cup
Schedule: Friday-Sunday, September 2-4, 2022
Course: Pebble Beach Golf Links || Pebble Beach, Calif.
Yardage: 6,156 || Par 72
Format: 6 Count 5 --3 Rounds of Stroke Play

Mississippi State Lineup:

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