DU women’s golf completes first tournament of ’21-22 in the Payne Stewart Memorial

SPRINGFIELD, Mo.— The Drury women’s golf team opened the 2021-22 season with a 15^th place finish at the Payne Stewart Memorial Tournament hosted by Missouri State at Twin Oaks Country Club in Springfield on Tuesday.
 
On Tuesday, the Panthers shot a team score of 327 in the third and final round to finish the tournament at 126-over-par to come in 15^th in a 16-team field comprised mostly of NCAA-I programs. Drury finished 34 shots ahead of Eastern Illinois.
 
Oral Roberts won the tournament at +22 and was eight shots better than second-place California Baptist.
 
Taryn Overstreet led the Panthers and shot 79 on Tuesday to finish 24-over-par and tied for 56^th among the 84 players in individual scoring. Isabelle Thrall, a freshman from Jackson, Missouri, playing in her first collegiate tournament, shot 80 on the final day to come in +41 and tied for 59^th. 
 
Abby Cavaiani from Missouri State won the individual championship as she finished with a two-under-par, 211.
 
Drury returns to action next week when they host the Panthers Invitational on Monday and Tuesday at Silo Ridge Country Club in Bolivar, Missouri.
 
Drury Results
T56  Taryn Overstreet 77-81-79, 237 (+24)
T59  Isabelle Thrall  81-77-80, 238 (+25)
T77  Ellie Cobb 83-85-86, 254 (+41)
81   Abbey Ott 86-85-89, 260 (+47)
84  Abby Howard 82-DQ-82
 
 
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