Adela Cernousek’s dream run continued Thursday on the U.S. Ladies’s Open.
The rising senior at Texas A&M, who two weeks in the past captured the NCAA particular person title for her first faculty victory, stored rolling within the greatest occasion in girls’s golf.
Along with her faculty coach on the bag, Cernousek carded a 1-under 69 to take a share of the early lead at Lancaster Nation Membership. She was certainly one of simply three gamers who broke par within the early wave.
“I don’t assume I’ve any expectations,” Cernousek stated after her first profession main spherical. “I don’t assume I’ve something to lose, so I simply tried to take pleasure in all the things with [coach Gerrod Chadwell] on the bag and simply dwell the expertise to the fullest.”
Cernousek, now ranked 15th on the earth, was already exempt via qualifying when she received NCAAs earlier this month at La Costa. (She earned medalist honors in her qualifier on Could 14.) The Frenchwoman is coming off an A&M season wherein she recorded a school-record 69.94 scoring common, posted eight top-6 finishes and have become the primary participant in program historical past to seize the person NCAA title.
Cernousek acquitted herself nicely in opposition to the professionals, too. When she completed her spherical Thursday, she was ranked inside the highest 10 each in strokes gained: off the tee and on the greens.
She wasn’t the one participant with an (a) subsequent to her identify close to the highest of the leaderboard, both.
Asterisk Talley offset a triple bogey on the par-5 seventh and a bogey on the par-3 seventeenth with 4 birdies for an even-par 70. The 15-year-old teamed to win the USGA’s 4-Ball championship two weeks in the past.
Whereas she did have an enormous quantity on her card Thursday, she prevented something disastrous, which was higher than what many might say, together with world No. 1 Nelly Korda, who made a ten on her third gap, the par-3 twelfth.
“So, truly, joke. I watched [Korda on] 10 and 11, which was like early within the morning, I suppose. Then I went to go prepare for my spherical, after which I bought within the automobile, and when Nelly was off 11, she was 1 over, I feel, and once I bought within the automobile I used to be like, Oh, did Nelly get again to even par? What occurred?” Talley stated.
The reply left her shocked.
“I used to be like, I don’t actually know find out how to reply. After which underneath her scorecard it had the dashes after which you could possibly watch the opening when she bought the ten. Then I watched it, and it form of bought me scared for that gap,” she stated.
