Final Results

SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. – Eastern Kentucky's women's golf team won the Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate by 26 shots on Tuesday.  Senior Ragnhildur Kristinsdottir placed first overall, winning by two strokes.
 
The Colonels led all three rounds.  It's the team's first title since capturing the Murray State Jan Weaver Invitational in April 2019.
 
EKU carded rounds of 297, 295 and 298 for a 54-hole total of 890.  Findlay (916), the seventh ranked team in NCAA Division II, was second.  Western Carolina (920) placed third.
 
The three-day event was contested on the Highlands Course at the Sevierville Golf Club.  The course had a par of 71 and played to 5,803 yards.
 
Kristinsdottir shot rounds of 1-under 70, 72 and 73 for a total of 215.  She beat Western Carolina's Victoria Ladd (217) by two shots.  The Reykjavik, Iceland native's total of 215 tied for the fifth lowest in program history.
 
Diana McDonald shot a second round score of 1-under 70 on Monday and finished fourth overall with a 54-hole total of 223.  Vilma Efraimsson (229) and Bailey Hubbard (229) both tied for ninth.  Elisa Orduna Shackleton (238) cut 15 shots off her second round score to card a 1-over 72 on Tuesday.  She tied for 29th overall.
 
Eastern will host the 2021 Colonel Classic on March 29-30 at the University Club at Arlington.
 
1.  Eastern Kentucky                297-295-298 – 890
1. Ragnhildur Kristinsdottir        70-72-73 – 215
4. Diana McDonald                   75-70-77 – 223
T9. Vilma Efraimsson                77-77-75 – 229
T9. Bailey Hubbard                    75-76-78 – 229
T28. Elisa Orduna Shackleton     77-87-72 – 238