After making a dozen appearances in the USGA Women’s State Team Championship, Colorado will see its run come to an end on Thursday morning when the final holes of round 2 are completed at The Club at Las Campanas in Santa Fe, N.M.
The team representing the CWGA will miss the 36-hole cut in the final USGA Women’s State Team tournament that will be held. The top 21 teams and ties — out of an original field of 48 — will advance to Thursday’s final round after round 2 wraps up. Play was suspended for the day at 6:22 p.m. Wednesday, with two of the three Colorado players still having to complete one or two holes of their second round.
After Wednesday, the Coloradans stand in 33rd place, at 35 over par for just shy of two rounds. The top two individual scores each day count toward the team total.
The CWGA team is 36 strokes behind leader New York and 17 shots back of the teams tied for 21st place.
Individually, 2017 CWGA Match Play champion Emily Gilbreth of Denver is leading the way for the Colorado contingent, finishing at 13-over-par 157 (80-77), which leaves her in 57th place. Janet Moore of Centennial is at 22 over par through 35 holes and fellow Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Christie Austin of Denver is 25 over through 34 holes. (The Coloradans are pictured, from left: Gilbreth, Moore and Austin.)
Another Colorado Golf Hall of Famer, Kim Eaton, will be sticking around for the final round as her Arizona team is in sixth place at 291, leaving the Arizonans four strokes out of the lead. Individually, Eaton has carded rounds of 77-78 and sits in 51st place.
The top finishes by Colorado in the biennial USGA Women’s State Team were sixth place in 2009 and 2013.
USGA Women’s State Team Championship
At The Club at Las Campanas in Santa Fe, N.M.
33. Colorado 163-+16–+35
57. Emily Gilbreth of Denver 80-77–157
100. Janet Moore of Centennial 83-+11–+22 (through 35 holes)
107. Christie Austin of Denver 85-+12–+25 (through 34 holes)
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51. Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Kim Eaton, competing for Arizona 77-78–155
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