Buffs Drop To 11th At Pac-12 Championship

PHOENIX — The University of Colorado dropped one spot into 11^th place after the second round of the 2023 Pac-12 Conference Women’s Golf Championship, Tuesday, at the Papago Golf Club.
 
Colorado shot 10-over-par, 298, a one-more stroke than Monday’s first round, to move to 19-over, 595 through 36 holes. The Buffaloes are one-shot back of No. 28 ranked UCLA which matched at Colorado 10-over, representing the high score for the field on the day.
 
No. 29 Arizona and No. 14 USC head into the final round of the Pac-12 Championship tied for the team lead at 8-under, 568. Top-ranked Stanford had the low second round at 4-under, 284, and is just three spots back of the leaders at 5-under. No. 9 Oregon is in fourth place at 2-under.
 
Starting off the back nine, Colorado had a slow start. The Buffaloes were 7-over for the first half of its round and had their struggles in the same spot as in round one. Colorado played holes No. 16 through No. 18 at 5-over. The Buffaloes dropped four strokes on those three holes in Monday’s first round.
 
Colorado bounced back to play the front nine at 3-over, logging seven of the team’s 10 birdies for that round on that side of the course.
 
 Colorado’s top three golfers through the second round all experienced adverse moments, but rebounded nicely. Morgan Miller, Natalie Vo and Haylin Harris each had a double bogey at some point in their round, only to bounce back immediately with multiple birdies.
 
Miller remains Colorado’s leader through two rounds and is tied for 24^th at 2-over, 146. She was 2-over on the day and was the first of the three Buffs to jump back from a rough stretch. Miller was 3-over through four holes following a double bogey at the 347-yard, par 4, No. 13. She erased that double immediately though with back-to-back birdies at No. 14 and No. 15.
 
Miller climbed back to even on the day following the turn with a birdie on the course’s longest hole, the par 5 No. 1 playing at 532 yards. She remained even through the fifth, but dropped a shot on the next two holes before rounding out the day with a pair of pars.
 
Vo is tied for 27^th overall, one shot back of Miller at 3-over, 147. Vo shot 2-over, 74, in the second round and had arguably the bumpiest ride to get there.
 
Vo started her round with six-straight pars, but ran into trouble toward the end of…