{"id":890852,"date":"2026-10-22T14:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890852\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:34:15","slug":"no-12-arkansas-womens-golf-finishes-fifth-at-the-fin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890852\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 12 Arkansas women\u2019s golf finishes fifth at The Fin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The No. 12 Arkansas women\u2019s golf team shot its best round at The Fin on Wednesday, but could not climb out of fifth place at Freestone Lake and Golf Club in Fairfield, Texas.<\/p>\n

The Razorbacks fired a 3-over for the low score of the day, but could not overcome back-to-back 11-over pars in the first two rounds. Arkansas finished the event at 25-over par, 20 shots behind winner Texas A&M. The Aggies were never seriously challenged after opening with rounds of 1-over and 1-under. They fired a 5 over in the final round to win by 11 shots over Oklahoma State. Host Mississippi State was third at 22 over, followed by LSU at 24 over and the Razorbacks at 25 over.<\/p>\n

Swetha Sathish had her third straight solid round for the Razorbacks playing as an individual. Sathish shot a 2-under 70 on Wednesday to finish the tournament at 2-under par. Sathish had a string of 5 birdies in her round before closing with three bogeys.<\/p>\n

Senior Maria Jose Marin had her best round of the event Wednesday with a 2-under 70. Marin had three birdies on the front side to finish the tournament at 3-over par. Sara Brentcheneff shot an even par 72 Wednesday and was 4 over for the tournament. Natalie Blonien was 3 over in the third round and 10 over for the event, and Ebba Liljeberg and Melliyal Schmitt each finished at 14-over par.<\/p>\n

Ava Merrill of Vanderbilt and Alicia Bellendir of Mississippi State shared medalist honors at 5 under. Cayetana Fernandez Garcia-Poggio of Texas A&M was third at 3 under, and Sathish and Vanessa Borovilos of Texas A&M shared fourth place.<\/p>\n

The Razorbacks will play their final fall event Monday through Wednesday next week at the East Lake Cup in Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p>\n

Chip Souza<\/a><\/p>\n

csouza@wholehogsports.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chip Souza is the general manager of the WholeHogSports Network. He was previously the sports editor of the four daily newspapers that comprise Northwest Arkansas Newspapers. He has been a sportswriter for most of the past 26 years, earning numerous awards in Texas and Arkansas. As sports editor of The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas the sports section earned six national Associated Press Sports Editors awards, including Top 10 Daily, Top 10 Sunday and Top 10 Special Section in its circulation category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No. 12 Arkansas women\u2019s golf team shot its best round at The Fin on Wednesday, but could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-890852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}