{"id":113140,"date":"2025-09-02T01:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/113140\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T01:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:45:07","slug":"womens-golf-wraps-up-first-day-of-boilermaker-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/113140\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Golf Wraps Up First Day of Boilermaker Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. \u2013 The WKU women&#8217;s golf team wrapped up the first two rounds of the Boilermaker Classic, hosted by Purdue, on Monday in West Lafayette, Indiana. <a href=\"https:\/\/wkusports.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/sydney-hackett\/6172\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6172\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Hackett<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/wkusports.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/nina-mcmurtrey\/6173\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6173\" target=\"_blank\">Nina McMurtrey<\/a> (playing as an individual) are leading the way for the Lady Toppers. WKU sits in a tie for 10th place and is two strokes back from ninth place going into the final round on Tuesday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNOTABLES<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tWKU posted a 303 score (+15) in the first round a 305 score (+17) in the second round. The Lady Toppers are tied in 10th place with North Florida.&#13;<br \/>\n\tSenior <a href=\"https:\/\/wkusports.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/sydney-hackett\/6172\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6172\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Hackett<\/a> finished the day 4-over after shooting 3-over in the first round and recovering to shoot 1-over in the second. She is tied in 21st place heading into Tuesday. Hackett is tied for the third most birdies in the tournament so far with nine through the first two rounds.&#13;<br \/>\n\tSenior <a href=\"https:\/\/wkusports.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/nina-mcmurtrey\/6173\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6173\" target=\"_blank\">Nina McMurtrey<\/a> is also tied for 21st place as an individual player, shooting 4-over for the day. She came out strong with a 1-over score in the first round and followed up with a 3-over score in the second. McMurtrey is tied for the fifth most birdies in the tournament so far with eight through the first two rounds.&#13;<br \/>\n\tSophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/wkusports.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/kaylee-dwyer\/6171\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6171\" target=\"_blank\">Kaylee Dwyer<\/a> shot 9-over for the day, tying for 38th place. She posted a 76 in the first round and a 77 in the second.&#13;<br \/>\n\tFreshman <a href=\"https:\/\/wkusports.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/leah-edwards\/6176\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6176\" target=\"_blank\">Leah Edwards<\/a> posted a 10-over score for the day, sitting tied for 49th place heading into the final round. She had an impressive first round, shooting 2-over but posted an 8-over score in the second.&#13;<br \/>\n\tFreshman <a href=\"https:\/\/wkusports.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/reagan-ramage\/6177\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6177\" target=\"_blank\">Reagan Ramage<\/a> is tied with Edwards in 49th place after shooting a 79 in the first round and a 75 in the second.&#13;<br \/>\n\tSenior <a href=\"https:\/\/wkusports.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/averi-cline\/6170\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6170\" target=\"_blank\">Averi Cline<\/a> posted a 166 for the day, shooting a 78 in the first round and an 88 in the second.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nQUOTABLE<br \/>\n&#8220;It was a tough day today,&#8221; said head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/wkusports.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/coaches\/adam-gary\/1265\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1265\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Gary<\/a>. &#8220;We had a lot of birdies but too many bogeys and others. We have the first day under our belt and we&#8217;ll look to learn from it and improve tomorrow.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNEXT UP<br \/>\nThe Lady Toppers will conclude the Boilermaker Classic on Tuesday with the third and final round. The tournament is set for a shotgun start at 8 a.m. (CT).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHow to Follow the Lady Toppers:\u00a0For complete information on WKU Women&#8217;s Golf, visit WKUSports.com or follow the program via social media @WKUWomensGolf on X or @WKUWomensGolf on Instagram.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. \u2013 The WKU women&#8217;s golf team wrapped up the first two rounds of the Boilermaker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-113140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}