Filler’s Third Victory of the Season Earns Gators Top-5 at Moon Golf
Maisie Filler won her third tournament of the season at the Moon Golf Invitational on Tuesday.
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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Filler’s Third Victory of the Season Earns Gators Top-5 at Moon Golf

Matthew Hutchison
Maisie Filler shot a 54-hole score of 207 (-9) for a three shot victory at the Moon Golf Invitational.

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MELBOURNE, Fla. - Florida women's golfer Maisie Filler won her third tournament of the season to lead the No. 8 Gators to a T5 finish at the Moon Golf Invitational.

UF finished with a tournament score of 873 (+9) to tie with Texas A&M in a field that featured 12 top-25 teams. The Gators have finished top-5 in the last five consecutive events and only missed one, which came in the season opener. 

Filler becomes the eighth Gator all-time to win three medalist honors in a season with Sierra Brooks being the most recent in 2018. Both of them also won three consecutive medalist honors as the spring opener for Filler was altered to match play only.

Teeing off the final round as the leader, Filler held it the majority of the day and recorded two birdies in her first six holes. Then ran into some trouble with a stretch of bogeys at the turn and to start the back to give Aine Donegan of LSU the solo lead by a shot. 

Filler regrouped and was consistent during the rest of the difficult back nine. She went 1-under and bogey-free on the final eight holes for a 3-under 69 final round and won by three shots with a 54-hole score of 207 (-9). 

Filler's birdie on 17 along with birdies from freshmen Inès Archer  and Paula Francisco pushed the Gators back up the leaderboard to close the day. Francisco finished tied for 28th and Archer T62. 

Freshman Sophie Stevens shot her best round of the event with a 75 (+3) today to end T81 while Jackie Lucena finished 74th. 

Florida returns to Gainesville to host the Gators Invitational at Mark Bostick Golf Course from March 2-3.

Florida Scores
 
Place Name Rd. 1 Rd. 2 Rd. 3 Score
1 Maisie Filler  66 69 72 207
T28 Paula Francisco  72 73 75 220
T62 Inès Archer  80 74 72 226
74 Jackie Lucena  76 72 80 228
T81 Sophie Stevens 77 81 75 233

Team Leaderboard
 
Place School Rd. 1 Rd. 2 Rd. 3 Score Par
1 LSU 283 290 277 850 -14
2 Auburn 282 291 293 866 +2
3 Northwestern 291 292 286 869 +5
4 Vanderbilt 295 295 280 870 +6
T5 Texas A&M 290 298 285 873 +9
T5 Florida 291 288 294 873 +9
7 Louisville 286 306 282 874 +10
8 Florida State 296 295 286 877 +13
9 Clemson 292 303 283 878 +14
10 Ole Miss 287 303 289 879 +15
11 Arkansas 289 298 294 881 +17
12 Wake Forest 290 304 290 884 +20
T13 Duke 295 312 281 888 +24
T13 Alabama 297 305 286 888 +24
15 Augusta 297 301 295 893 +29
16 UCF 298 303 294 895 +31
17 Virginia Tech 288 310 300 898 +34
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