FARMINGTON, Utah (September 15, 2021) – After capturing her first career individual tournament victory, graduate student
Kimberlee Tottori picked up the season's first Big Sky Women's Golfer of the Week award on Wednesday.
Tottori won the Hobble Creek Fall Classic with a three-round score of even-par 213 (72-71-70) to become the first Northern Arizona golfer to win a tournament since Sofia Anokhina (Red Rocks Invitational) in 2018.
Tottori, playing in her first career tournament as a Lumberjack after grad transferring to NAU after four years at Seattle, concluded the first round in a three-way tie for seventh. Turns out her first round 1-over par 72 would be her highest score of the tournament as Tottori vaulted up the leaderboard into second by the end of Monday's action following an even-par 71 in the second round.
Entering Tuesday's third and final round one stroke behind Gonzaga's Chaewon Baek, Tottori fired a 1-under par 70 – two strokes better than Baek's 72 – to win the tournament by one stroke.
The Las Vegas, Nev. native posted 10 birdies – four each in the second and third rounds – which tied her for second-most in the tournament. She led all players in par 3 scoring (-4) and par 4 scoring (+1) across three rounds.
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