RIDGEFIELD, Conn. – The Wesleyan women's golf team finished its fall slate with a third place showing in the Wesleyan Invitational hosted at the Silver Spring Country Club over the weekend. The Cardinals shot 300-315-615 (+51) to finish in third place out of 12 teams, finishing 14 strokes behind the tournament team champion Bowdoin and four strokes behind the runner-up Williams.

• RESULTS

Amanda Phillips '28 led the charge for the Cardinals, finishing in a tie for third place out of 60 golfers on the player leaderboard. The junior standout went 75-74-149 (+8) for the 36-hole tournament, recording 12 pars and one birdie on Saturday before totaling 12 more pars with three birdies in round 2 on Sunday. Her 24 pars for the weekend led the team while she had just two holes scoring worse than bogey in the two rounds combined.
 
Mia Holbrook '27 was right behind in a tie for sixth place on the player leaderboard, shooting 72-79-151 (+10). Her first round 72 (+2) was the low round of the weekend for the entire Wesleyan roster while she finished with a team-leading seven birdies on the weekend. Holbrook opened with three birdies and 10 pars in her opening round 72, highlighted by an even par 35 across the front 9 while she didn't score worse than bogey throughout the entire round on Saturday. Holbrook fired in four birdies in round 2 on Sunday to lead her to a Top 10 finish.
 
Katherine Liu '30 was the next-highest finisher for Wesleyan as the first-year went 75-81-156 (+15) to see her place 18^th overall. Liu went for 12 pars and two birdies on Saturday in the opening round and added one more birdie on Sunday to finish with three for the weekend.
 
Rounding out the lineup for the Cardinals, finishing in a tie for 22^nd place was Olivia Lee '30 who shot 78-81-159 (+18). Lee racked up four birdies on Sunday while she recorded 11 pars on Saturday. Crissy Murphy '30 also competed for the Wesleyan 'A' team and went 85-86-171 (+30) to finish in 43^rd place with four birdies on the weekend.
 
As a team, the Wesleyan 'A' team led the field with 22 birdies while the Cardinals had the second-fewest bogeys (52).
 
The Cardinals also fielded a second team to compete on the weekend that featured Cecilia Roegner '27 (86-81-167), Rebecca Roegner '28 (86-90-176), Mei Assalian '29 (93-91-184), Leela Kenwood '29 (86-93-179), and Rhea Behl '27 (100-102-202).