RCW: Inside Women's Golf 3.25

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In the first tournament of the spring, the Kansas women’s golf team collectively shot a one-over par, 865, its lowest score so far of the 2016-17 season.
 

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• The Jayhawks opened the spring season strong, finishing tied for second place at the Westbrook Spring Invitational in Peoria, Arizona.
• It is the team’s first top-five finish since the spring of 2016.
• As a team, the Jayhawks recorded 39 birdies over the course of three rounds.
• Sophomore Ariadna Fonseca Diaz finished in fifth place; her second career top-five finish, and first since the fall of 2015.
• Diaz finished the three-round tournament at four-under par, with nine birdies and no bogeys in the final two rounds.
• The team spent most of the first two rounds at the top of the leaderboard.
• Chomchana Phuchanbanchob, a sophomore transfer from Cal State-Northridge, ended day one in a tie for second place, ultimately finishing 10th in her first tournament as a Jayhawk.
• Diaz, Phuchanbanchob and Victoria Chandra all recorded rounds in the 60s (Diaz had two).
• Phuchanbanchob (68) and Chandra (67) both recorded career-low scores in the first round.