{"id":267049,"date":"2026-05-11T19:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/267049\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T19:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:55:11","slug":"gators-5-under-lead-in-opening-round-of-tallahassee-regional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/267049\/","title":{"rendered":"Gators 5-under, lead in opening round of Tallahassee Regional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2013 The No. 1 seed and No. 3 ranked Florida women&#8217;s golf team leads through the opening round at 5-under at the NCAA Tallahassee Regional on Monday at Seminole Legacy Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p>The Gators, who shot their tenth straight team round in the red to own a two-shot lead over host Florida State and Wake Forest, and will tee off round two tomorrow at 8 a.m. Following 54-holes, the top-5 teams and low individual on the non-advancing team will punch their ticket to the NCAA National Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The opening round at the NCAA Regionals was the lowest since a 6-under round in 2013. In 30 rounds this year for Florida, 19 have been for par or better and 18 under par.<\/p>\n<p>Playing in her first career round at regionals, <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/siuue-wu\/17805\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17805\" target=\"_blank\">Siuue Wu<\/a> led the lineup with a 3-under 69. She made the turn bogey-free and 2-under to finish with only one bogey across her 18-holes. The sophomore is tied for second and one shot back of leader Janae Leovao (-4) of Eastern Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>UF&#8217;s next two counting scores were both under par from their one-two-punch. <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/megan-propeck\/17807\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17807\" target=\"_blank\">Megan Propeck<\/a>, who is playing in her fourth career regional, finished with a 2-under 68. She made the turn +1 and had a stretch of five birdies in a six-hole stretch of 11-16, including three consecutive birdies between the latter three holes. She sits T7.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Continuing her streak of under par rounds, <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/paula-francisco\/17800\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17800\" target=\"_blank\">Paula Francisco<\/a> logged her 10th straight and fourth consecutive of the postseason with a 1-under 71. In her four career rounds at regionals, three have been under par: 67 (-4), 70 (-1) and 71 (-1). The 2026 SEC Individual Champions is tied for 12th.<\/p>\n<p>Florida&#8217;s final counting score was +1 as both freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/katelyn-huber\/17806\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17806\" target=\"_blank\">Katelyn Huber<\/a> and sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/elaine-widjaja\/17804\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17804\" target=\"_blank\">Elaine Widjaja<\/a> each recorded a 73, and both tied for 26th.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Scores<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT2. <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/siuue-wu\/17805\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17805\" target=\"_blank\">Siuue Wu<\/a> &#8211; 69 (-3)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT6 <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/megan-propeck\/17807\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17807\" target=\"_blank\">Megan Propeck<\/a> &#8211; 70 (-2)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT10. <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/paula-francisco\/17800\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17800\" target=\"_blank\">Paula Francisco<\/a> &#8211; 71 (-1)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT26. <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/katelyn-huber\/17806\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17806\" target=\"_blank\">Katelyn Huber<\/a> &#8211; 73 (+1)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT26. <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/elaine-widjaja\/17804\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17804\" target=\"_blank\">Elaine Widjaja<\/a> &#8211; 73 (+1)<\/p>\n<p>Team Leaderboard<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n1 &#8211; Florida (-5)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT2 &#8211; Wake Forest (-3)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT2 &#8211; Florida State (-3)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT4 &#8211; Eastern Michigan (-1)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT4 &#8211; Louisiana-Monroe (-1)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n6 &#8211; UCLA (+2)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT7 &#8211; Kentucky (+3)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT7 &#8211; Clemson (+3)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n9 &#8211; North Florida (+8)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n10 &#8211; Purdue (+10)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n11 &#8211; UT-Rio Grande Valley (+13)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n12 &#8211; Little Rock (+27)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2013 The No. 1 seed and No. 3 ranked Florida women&#8217;s golf team leads through the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-267049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}