Women's Golf: Ohio Northern (0-0 Overall) hosts ONU Invitational
Sunday-Monday, Sept. 5-6, 2021, 8 a.m. - Colonial Golfers Club, Harrod, Ohio
| Colonial Golfers Club site | ONU's 2021-22 Preview |
This Weekend's Tournament: The Ohio Northern men's golf team will open its 2021-22 season by hosting the annual ONU Invitational at the Colonial Golfers Club in Harrod ... The tournament will start with 18 holes on Sunday with an 8 am shotgun start and will finish play with an 8 am shotgun start on Monday ... Bluffton, Defiance and Heidelberg will join the Polar Bears in the competition ... Sophomore Grace Honigford headlines the returnees after earning a pair of OAC Player of the Week accolades and posting a program single-season record 18-hole average score of 79.3 over 17.5 rounds as a freshman ... She won six tournaments overall and capped her highly successful first year by winning four straight, including the OAC Championships, and placing 28th in the NCAA Division III Championships ... Honigford's 54-hole score of 234 at the OAC Championships is a program record, and she owns the all-time third- and fifth-best stroke totals through 36 holes (153) and 18 holes (75), respectively ... The Polar Bears also return four golfers who posted an average score in the 80s a season ago in juniors Isabella Orofino, Meghan Utterdyke, Olivia Galigher and Torrie Smith.
ONU Returning Statistical Leaders (2020-21 Stats):
| Average | ||
| 1. | Honigford | 79.3 |
| 2. | Orofino | 82.9 |
| 3. | Utterdyke | 88.3 |
ONU head coach Chad Bucci: Bucci is in his ninth season at ONU with a 248-228-2 record, a winning percentage of .521.
