{"id":267422,"date":"2026-05-12T01:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/267422\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T01:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:33:09","slug":"deacs-tied-for-second-after-round-one-in-tallahassee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/267422\/","title":{"rendered":"Deacs Tied for Second After Round One in Tallahassee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. &#8211; With sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/godeacs.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/chloe-kovelesky\/8947\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8947\" target=\"_blank\">Chloe Kovelesky<\/a> going three-under-par to kick the week off, Wake Forest women&#8217;s golf finished its first round of three tied for second at the NCAA Tallahassee Regional in Tallahassee, Fla.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Deacs are two strokes off the leader, and well inside the top-five team cut needed to advance to NCAA Championships.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kovelesky continued her momentum from the ACC Championships as she finished three-under and tied for second place. The sophomore carded an under par back nine, highlighted by a hole-out on hole 17 for eagle. Recently named to the 2026 All-ACC Team, she leads the competition in par-four scoring, shooting par or better on all par-fours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Graduate student <a href=\"https:\/\/godeacs.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/morgan-ketchum\/8950\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8950\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Ketchum<\/a> and senior <a href=\"https:\/\/godeacs.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/anne-sterre-den-dunnen\/7050\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7050\" target=\"_blank\">Anne-Sterre den Dunnen<\/a> followed behind at one under and T12. Den Dunnen recorded a bogey-free morning, totaling four birdies throughout the day. Ketchum meanwhile posted five birdies, the most of the Deacs today and second among the competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/godeacs.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/cartoon-rujiranan\/8953\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8953\" target=\"_blank\">Cartoon Rujiranan<\/a> secured a clean front nine and completed the day at two over in T32. Junior <a href=\"https:\/\/godeacs.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/macy-pate\/8949\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8949\" target=\"_blank\">Macy Pate<\/a> wrapped the first round in T42 and three strokes over par.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Round Two Up Next<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Deacs tee off for round two at 8 a.m. ET, paired with Florida and FSU.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Team Leaderboard&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tTeam&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tRound One&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t1 Florida&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t283 (-5)&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tT2 Florida State&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t285 (-3)&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tT2 Wake Forest&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t285 (-3)&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tT4 Eastern Michigan&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t287 (-1)&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tT4 ULM&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t287 (-1)&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t6 UCLA&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t290 (+2)&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tT7 Clemson&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t291 (+3)&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tT7 Kentucky&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t291 (+3)&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t9 North Florida&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t296\u00a0(+8)&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t10 Purdue&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t298 (+10)&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t11 UTRGV&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t301 (+13)&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t12 Little Rock&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t315 (+27)&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Player Leaderboard&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. &#8211; With sophomore Chloe Kovelesky going three-under-par to kick the week off, Wake Forest women&#8217;s golf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-267422","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\/267422","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=267422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}