{"id":888834,"date":"2026-09-12T02:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888834\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T02:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:12:10","slug":"womens-golf-sits-in-second-after-day-one-of-irish-hills-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888834\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Golf Sits in Second After Day One of Irish Hills Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Hope College women’s golf team opened the Irish Hills Invitational\u00a0with a strong first-round showing Friday at Tecumseh Golf Club, placing second among nine teams after shooting a 329.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Flying Dutch sit just four strokes behind host Adrian College at the nine-team event after the Bulldogs rallied over the final three holes to overtake Hope for the lead. Adrian shot 325. Third-place Alma College finished third at 356.<\/p>\n

Senior Rachael Jones<\/a> (Grove City, Ohio \/ Grove City HS) led the Orange and Blue, firing a 77 to finish tied for first individually heading into the final round that ties off on Saturday, Sept. 12, at 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Senior Jaiden Winters<\/a> (New Carlisle, Indiana \/ New Prairie) followed with an 82 to tie for fourth.<\/p>\n

Senior Kylie Gernaat<\/a> (Kalamazoo, Michigan \/ Kalamazoo Christian) shot an 83 to tie for sixth.<\/p>\n

Senior Allyson Zuidema<\/a> (Northville, Michigan \/ Northville) added an 85 to tie for 10th, playing as an individual, followed by sophomore Gabby Hanover<\/a> (Mason, Michigan \/ Mason) with an 87 to tie for 13th.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sophomore Kennedy Gernaat<\/a> (Kalamazoo, Michigan \/ Kalamazoo Christian) rounded out Hope’s scoring lineup with a 90, placing 18th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Story Links The Hope College women’s golf team opened the Irish Hills Invitational\u00a0with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-888834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}