LAS VEGAS, Nev. (March 2, 2026) -Â The Northern Arizona women's golf team battled strong winds in the first two rounds of the Lady Luck Invitational, posting a team score of +30, good for a tie for sixth.
Teams faced gusts up to 30 mph at the Las Vegas Country Club, making club selection more difficult and causing holes to play much longer into the wind. Despite a stacked field featuring several top-50 teams, players across the leaderboard struggled to stay near par.
UCF leads the tournament at +8 after shooting +16 in the morning before firing a low -8 in the afternoon. The Knights are four strokes ahead of Kent State at +12.
Individually, UNLV's Foong Zi Yu is the clubhouse leader after posting back-to-back rounds of 2-under for a 4-under total heading into the final round. She holds a four-stroke lead over Texas State's Grace Quintanilla and Kent State's Veronika Kedronova, who are both at even par.
Leading the Lumberjacks is senior Lizzie Neale at +3. The New Zealander is coming off her 16th career top-10 finish and continues to demonstrate her leadership, sitting in a tie for 12th on the leaderboard. In the morning round, she carded a three-over 75, capping it off with a birdie on her final hole - the 523-yard, par-5 10th. Starting her second round on hole 11, a few more putts dropped as she recorded four birdies on holes 13, 18, three and eight. Neale also took care of the par-3s, averaging 3.13 (+1).
Juniors Frankie Dezis and Amy Hodgkins both posted identical rounds of 76-76 for a total of +8, placing them in a tie for 26th. Both rank tied for 20th in par-4 scoring at +3 over two rounds.
Dezis recorded a birdie on hole 16 in the morning and added two more in the afternoon on holes 14 and 8. She ranks tied for fifth in par-3 scoring at even par.
Hodgkins added birdies on holes 9 and 15 in the first round. She holds an even-par scoring mark on the par-5s, tied for 17th best in the field. Her 23 total pars are tied for the sixth-most in the tournament, just two shy of the leader's 25.
Sumin Kang started on hole 13 and recorded four birdies in the morning, including one on hole 2 and back-to-back birdies on holes 8 and 9. She added birdies on holes 11 and 18 in the second round. Kang carded rounds of 76-79 for a +11 total, putting her in a tie for 40th. She has five total birdies, tied for 11th in the field alongside teammate Neale and just four behind the tournament leader.
Nina Lukyanenko rounded out the lineup, shooting 82-81 for a +19 total, tying for 68th.
As a team, Northern Arizona ranks fourth in par-4 scoring with a 4.25 average (+22). On the par-5s, the Lumberjacks are tied for eighth at 5.24 (+8). NAU tallied 18 birdies and 89 pars through two rounds.
To crack the top three, the Lumberjacks will need to make up 12 strokes on Houston (+18) and limit double bogeys or worse in the final round.
Tomorrow, the 'Jacks will tee off at 7:30 a.m. MST in a shotgun start alongside BYU and New Mexico, beginning on holes 11 through 14.
Live scoring of the tournament will be available via Scoreboard Powered by Clippd.
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