The TCU women's golf record book needs to be kept in pencil these days.
A few weeks ago, the women posted the lowest single-round score in school history with a 277 and knocked 10 shots off the low 54-hole scoring record with 843 at the Sam Golden Invitational. And Sabrina Iqbal lowered the mark for low individual 54-hole mark by 5 shots (to 204).
The first mark was replaced today in the first round of the Jim West Invitational when the Frogs shot 12-under 276. The latter two records look primed to fall tomorrow. TCU needs to shoot 285 (-3) or better for the team mark and Caitlyn Macnab needs 71 or better to set the individual record.
The Frogs are second as a team at -19, 10 shots back of Oklahoma State and 4 up on third-place Florida State. No other team is within 10 shots of TCU.
Macnab posted 65-67 today to tie for the individual lead at -12. Sabrina Iqbal is T5 at -5. Lois Lau is T16 at -2.
Strangely, Caitlyn might have come off the course a little frustrated. With 4 holes left, she had a 5-shot lead on the field. She had a pair of bogeys on the closing stretch while Oklahoma State's Caley McGinty finished birdie-birdie-birdie to match her at -12. McGinty is ranked #3 in the just-released
Golfstat individual rankings and 33rd in WAGR. She's very good, but Macnab is a player who can run away from the field when she gets hot. Will be interesting to see how she and McGinty play head to head tomorrow.
With Iqbal keeping up her fine play (she is #12 in Golfstat), Lau coming into form, and Pacheco and Jordaan ham-and-egging it to avoid over-par counting scores, TCU got about as much as it could out of two rounds. The Frogs are 18 shots up on 14th-ranked A&M.
Kissing Tree in San Marcos is very scorable, so the potential was there. But the Frogs did great to hang close with a top-2 team (which they'll be paired with tomorrow) and to put some distance between themselves and most of the chasing teams. A third-place finish would be very good, and even more is within reach.