{"id":627199,"date":"2026-04-25T06:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627199\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T06:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:49:10","slug":"no-14-womens-golf-opens-at-big-ten-championships-in-glendale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627199\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 14 Women&#8217;s Golf Opens at Big Ten Championships in Glendale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\nGLENDALE, Calif. \u2013 The No. 14-ranked UCLA women&#8217;s golf team finished in 13th place out of 18 teams through the opening round of the Big Ten Championships on Friday, hosted at Oakmont Country Club.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSenior <a href=\"https:\/\/uclabruins.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/meghan-royal\/15247\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15247\" target=\"_blank\">Meghan Royal<\/a> finished in a tie for sixth place after the first round, shooting 1-under 69. Royal totaled five birdies, two bogeys and one double bogey.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAs a team, UCLA carded 17-over 297 on Friday. Only seven strokes are currently separating the seventh through 13th-place teams. The Bruins stand just one stroke shy of 12th-place Michigan and two strokes behind Washington and Iowa (tied for 10th place).<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nUSC concluded the opening round in the lead, at 3-under 277. Illinois and Ohio State are tied in second place, having shot 2-over 282.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFreshman <a href=\"https:\/\/uclabruins.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/gaeun-athena-yoo\/15252\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15252\" target=\"_blank\">GaEun Athena Yoo<\/a> shot 5-over 75, while junior <a href=\"https:\/\/uclabruins.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/jennifer-seo\/15248\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15248\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Seo<\/a> finished 6-over 76 on Friday. Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/uclabruins.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/kacey-ly\/15250\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15250\" target=\"_blank\">Kacey Ly<\/a> carded 7-over 77 and sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/uclabruins.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/jen-lee\/15249\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15249\" target=\"_blank\">Jen Lee<\/a> finished the opening round 10-over 80.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nRoyal was one of five golfers to have finished in sixth place (1-under 69) and currently stands four strokes shy of the individual lead (Illinois&#8217; Anna Ritter, at 5-under 65).<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe three-day Big Ten Championships will resume on Saturday, April 25. UCLA will be back in action on Saturday at approximately 9:20 a.m. (PT). from hole 10.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s third and final round will be televised by Big Ten Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; GLENDALE, Calif. \u2013 The No. 14-ranked UCLA women&#8217;s golf team finished in 13th place out of 18&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-627199","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\/627199","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=627199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}