Jackie Rogowicz takes on Team Canada right now at Niagara Falls Country Club.
Rogowicz, the 2019 Women’s Porter Cup champion from Yardley, Pennsylvania, enters the ultimate spherical of this yr’s match in third place behind two members of the Canadian improvement program, Brooke Rivers and Katie Cranston.
Rivers, a Wake Forest commit and member of Canada’s National Amateur Squad, maintained her lead Thursday after ending tied atop the leaderboard in Wednesday’s first spherical. She had a comparatively quiet day, carding three birdies and one bogey to enhance to 5-under for the match.
Cranston, of Canada’s National Junior Squad, carded the low spherical of the match Thursday, a 5-under 67 that pushed her one stroke again of Rivers. The Auburn commit, who gained the Dustin Johnson World Golf Championship in March, birdied all 4 of NFCC’s par-5s on transferring day.
Rogowicz, a former Penn State Nittany Lion, entered Thursday tied for third at 1-under and took sole possession with a 2-under 70. A victory would make her the primary two-time champion within the quick historical past of the Women’s Porter Cup, which started in 2013.
Behind her are 4 extra Canadians, no shock as our neighbors from up north account for greater than half of the sphere of 53. Toronto’s Vanessa Borovilos and Nicole Gal, a Junior Squad member, are each 2-under, having carded matching 71s in every of the opening two rounds.
Celeste Dao and Taylor Kehoe, members of the Amateur Squad, are tied with Kansas’ Megan Propeck, a Virginia Cavalier, at 1-under. Kehoe, a Porter Cup veteran, entered Thursday tied with Rivers and took a four-stroke lead with a 31 on the entrance 9, solely to shoot a 43 on the again, together with double-bogeys on each of the par-5s.
Today’s remaining spherical begin at 8 a.m. The lead group — Rivers, Cranston and Rogowicz — will tee off at 11. Admission is free to the general public.
2022 Women’s Porter Cup
Place Name To par R1 R2 Total
1 Brooke Rivers -5 69 70 139
2 Katie Cranston -4 73 67 140
3 Jackie Rogowicz -3 71 70 141
T4 Vanessa Borovilos -2 71 71 142
T4 Nicole Gal -2 71 71 142
T6 Celeste Dao -1 74 69 143
T6 Megan Propeck -1 74 69 143
T6 Taylor Kehoe -1 69 74 143
9 Jocelyn Bruch E 71 73 144
T10 Aloysa Margiela Atienza +2 72 74 146
T10 Angela Arora +2 72 74 146
T10 Lauren Zaretsky +2 72 74 146