{"id":233480,"date":"2025-10-23T04:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/233480\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T04:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:04:09","slug":"wong-leads-womens-golf-at-rwi-invite-with-top-20-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/233480\/","title":{"rendered":"Wong Leads Women\u2019s Golf At RWI Invite With Top 20 Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     L\u012aHU&#8217;E, Kaua&#8217;i \u2013 University of Hawai&#8217;i women&#8217;s golfer <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/jasmine-wong\/22219\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22219\" target=\"_blank\">Jasmine Wong<\/a> carded a final round even par 72 to finish in a tie for 18th place at the 28th Rainbow Wahine Invitational at the Ocean Course at Hokuala.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWong posted her second consecutive 72 for a 2-over 218 total and her second career Top 20 finish. The Honolulu native helped the Rainbow Wahine move up a spot in the team standings into a tie for 14th place. UH shot a final round 5-over 293 for an 892 total.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBaylor shot 277 to win the team title at 851 for its third RWI championship since 2021. Missouri and Santa Clara tied for runner-up at 860. Baylor&#8217;s Yurang Li captured medalist honors at 12-under 204 after a final round 7-under 65.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/maline-kraus\/22216\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22216\" target=\"_blank\">Maline Kraus<\/a> also carded 72 to share team-best honors with Wong on the day. The D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany native finished the tournament at 5-over 221 and a tie for 32nd place. Rounding out the UH contingent were <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/chloe-ku\/22221\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22221\" target=\"_blank\">Chloe Ku<\/a> (75=225; t-54th), <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/emiko-sverduk\/22218\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22218\" target=\"_blank\">Emiko Sverduk<\/a> (74=228; t-70th), and <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/kaydence-kim\/22220\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22220\" target=\"_blank\">Kaydence Kim<\/a> (87=250; 110th).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThree others competed as individuals \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/sofina-firouzi\/22214\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22214\" target=\"_blank\">Sofina Firouzi<\/a> (76=227; t-62nd), <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/varnikas-achanta\/22213\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22213\" target=\"_blank\">Varnika S. Achanta<\/a> (78=230; t-85th), and <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/wendy-song\/22217\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22217\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy Song<\/a>, the latter of whom withdrew the final two rounds.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUH closes out its fall season with Nanea Invitational, Oct. 27-29 at Nanea Golf Club in Kailua-Kona, Hawai&#8217;i.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n16. Hawai&#8217;i \u2013 293=892 (+28)<br \/>\nT-18. <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/jasmine-wong\/22219\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22219\" target=\"_blank\">Jasmine Wong<\/a> \u2013 72=218 (+2)<br \/>\nT-32. <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/maline-kraus\/22216\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22216\" target=\"_blank\">Maline Kraus<\/a> \u2013 72=221 (+5)<br \/>\nT-54. <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/chloe-ku\/22221\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22221\" target=\"_blank\">Chloe Ku<\/a> \u2013 75=225 (+9)<br \/>\nT-70. <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/emiko-sverduk\/22218\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22218\" target=\"_blank\">Emiko Sverduk<\/a> \u2013 74=228 (+12)<br \/>\n110. <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/kaydence-kim\/22220\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22220\" target=\"_blank\">Kaydence Kim<\/a> \u2013 87=250 (+34)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>#HawaiiWGOLF<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; L\u012aHU&#8217;E, Kaua&#8217;i \u2013 University of Hawai&#8217;i women&#8217;s golfer Jasmine Wong carded a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-233480","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\/233480","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=233480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}