It’s been an amazing last year for Jennifer Kupcho. A year ago tomorrow — Oct. 16, 2016 — the Westminster resident earned her first individual college title. And since the beginning of last season, she’s recorded an amazing 11 top-eight finishes while competing for Wake Forest.
That includes a sixth-place showing on Sunday in the Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational, where she was the defending champion. This year’s event featured the top two players in the Women’s World Amateur Golf Rankings — Duke’s Leona Maguire and Kupcho (pictured).
Maguire, the women’s college player of the year two of the last three seasons, won on Sunday in Chapel Hill, N.C., posting a 12-under-par 204 total for three rounds. Kupcho, meanwhile, finished three back after bogeying her final hole and going 66-73-68.
In the last 13 months in college tournaments, Kupcho has recorded four individual victories, three seconds, one third, one fourth, one sixth at one eighth. Of course, one of the runner-up finishes came in May at the Women’s NCAA Finals, where she led going into the 17th hole of the final round.
This past summer, Kupcho finished 21st at the U.S. Women’s Open, won the Canadian Women’s Amateur, captured the CWGA Stroke Play for the third straight year, and placed second at the CoBank Colorado Women’s Open for the second time.
