LIHUE, KAUA’I, Hawai’i \u2013 Grand Canyon finished the third and final round in 12th place at the 19-team Rainbow Wahine Invitational at\u00a0Ocean Course Hokuala\u00a0in Kaua’i on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
GCU totaled a 54-hole score of 22 over par, finishing third best out of five Mountain West teams that competed. Baylor won the tournament at 14 under, 10 strokes better than runners-up Santa Clara and Missouri.<\/p>\n
The Lopes shot 8 over in Wednesday’s final round after earlier 2-over and 12-over rounds.<\/p>\n
GCU freshman Alexis Vakasiuola<\/a> led the Lopes, tying for 26th place. Vakasiuola carded an even score in the third round and finished 3 over for the tournament. She shot 1 over on the back nine and 1 under on the front with four birdies, including two over her first five holes.<\/p>\n Sophomore Allie Justiz<\/a> carded the most birdies of any Lope in any round Wednesday, moving up 10 spots to finish 47th at 8 over. Justiz climbed 33 spots since Monday’s first round. Her day finished with three birdies over her final six holes.<\/p>\n GCU freshman Clara Duerr<\/a> and junior Lena Tremouille<\/a> tied for 54th at 9 over. Tremouille parred 14 holes Wednesday and added one birdie. Junior teammate Jess Haines<\/a> placed 77th at 13 over for the tournament.<\/p>\n The Lpoes shot 11 under on par-five holes in the tournament, eighth best among 19 teams. Tremoulle’s par count Wednesday put her at 40 for the tournament, tying her for fifth most among 112 golfers.<\/p>\n GCU concludes the fall season next week in Boulder City, Nevada, at the Clash at Boulder Creek. The two-day tournament starts Monday at the Boulder Creek Country Club.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIHUE, KAUA’I, Hawai’i \u2013 Grand Canyon finished the third and final round in 12th place at the 19-team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-233660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233660","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=233660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}