Rohanna misses cut by two strokes
Rachel Rohanna was sitting right at the cut line entering Saturday’s second round of the Guardian Championship, but she took a couple of penalty strokes and didn’t card as many birdies as in the first round to miss the cut by a couple strokes.
The Waynesburg Central graduate shot 4-over 74 in the second round after opening Friday with a 3-over 73.
Rohanna opened on the back nine in the Symetra Tour event in Prattville, Ala., and moved to 6-over after five holes with a double bogey-6 and a bogey-6. She rallied with back-to-back birdies and a par to go out in 1-over 37.
She made the turn with a birdie, but lost three strokes to par with a six on her 13th hole, a par-3. Rohanna finished her back nine with two bogeys, a birdie and a par to come back in 3-over 37.
“I had two drives that cost me two penalties, so that didn’t help,” said Rohanna. “And, my wedges weren’t on fire. I was giving myself 12-18 footers all day, but I couldn’t knock my shots close enough to have kick-ins.”
Rohanna was unable to figure out where all the birdies went in the second round. She said it was a combination of poor speed, bad reads and burning the edges of the pin.
“I wish I knew,” said Rohanna. “I hit 16 greens and couldn’t convert anything.聽
“All of the above. Well, mostly bad reads, but just missing by an inch or two. The greens were extremely fast this week and I gave myself a ton of downhill putts today, which didn’t help.”
Rohanna closes her season in the first weekend of October when she looks to defend her title in the Symetra Tour Championship in Daytona Beach, Fla., on Oct. 4-7. The win in the tour championship at LPGA International was her second Symetra Tour victory.
“Yea definitely,” said Rohanna when asked if her play was another step in the right direction. “I’ll have one more event this year, but hoping to make it a good one. I’m hitting it well enough and rolling it good, I just gotta put it together.”