Coloradan Jennifer Kupcho almost had a storybook finish at her first Atlantic Coast Conference Championship.
The CWGA Player of the Year in both 2014 and ’15, Kupcho led the individual competition outright at the ACC tournament with three holes remaining Sunday in Greensboro, N.C. But bogeys on two of her final three holes forced her to settle for a second-place tie with her Wake Forest teammate Sierra Sims.
The 2015 CWGA Stroke Play champion, now a freshman at Wake Forest, shot rounds of 66-74-69 for a 7-under-par 209 total, which left her two strokes behind champion Lauren Coughlin of Virginia. Kupcho and Coughlin went into the final hole tied, but Coughlin birdied the par-5, while Kupcho made bogey.
Kupcho, who’s No. 74 in the women’s World Amateur Golf Rankings, has had an April to remember in the college ranks, with two consecutive runner-up finishes. That gives her four top-five showings so far in her freshman season.
Meanwhile, also posting a top-five in a college event this weekend was University of Colorado junior Jeremy Paul, who tied for fourth in The Maxwell in Ardmore, Okla., after Sunday’s final round of the tournament was canceled due to poor weather conditions.
Paul carded rounds of 68-69 for a 3-under-par 137, which left him three strokes behind champion Gavin Hall of Texas.
Paul’s performance comes on the heels of him sharing the individual title at the Wyoming Cowboy Classic on April 5.
