{"id":14610,"date":"2023-03-25T22:41:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T02:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/?p=14610"},"modified":"2023-03-25T22:41:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T02:41:28","slug":"22event102_update-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/22event102_update-2-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Round 1 Update: PKBGT Spring Bell Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Charlottesville, VA &#8211; <\/b><i>The\u00a0<\/i><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\/\">Peggy Kirk Bell Girls\u2019 Golf Tour<\/a><i> traveled to Birdwood Golf Course at the Boar&#8217;s Head Resort<\/i><i>\u00a0in Charlottesville, VA for the PKBGT Spring Invitational.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\/images\/headers\/header_birdwoodinvite.png\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>LEADERBOARD UPDATE<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s tight at the top of the leaderboard after the opening round on Saturday! The low round of the day was two-under par 70&#8217;s shot by <strong>Kathryn Ha\u00a0<\/strong>(Roanoke, VA 2025) and <strong>Ella Weber\u00a0<\/strong>(Burlington, Canada 2023). Ha started her round hot playing her first nine in 2-under and made four birdies on the day to grab a share of the lead. Much like Ha, Weber got off to a quick start birding three of her first six holes, she would add two more birdies on the back nine to share the overnight lead.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off a victory at the RocketTour Players Championship, <b>Hailey Han\u00a0<\/b>(Duluth, GA 2025) picked up right where she left off firing an opening round of one-under to sit in solo third. A three-way tie for fourth rounds out the top five on the first round leaderboard. <strong>Anne-Lea Lavoie<\/strong>\u00a0(Quebec City, Canada 2023), <strong>Arabella Lopez<\/strong> (Ridgefield, CT 2027), and <strong>Kinsley Smith<\/strong> (Raleigh, NC 2024) all played Saturday&#8217;s round in even par and are positioned well to make a charge up the leaderboard.<\/p>\n<p>All the players in the field played well on Saturday setting the stage for what should be an exciting two more days at the PKBGT Spring Bell Invitational! There are twenty-four players within four strokes of the lead and thirty-eight players within eight. With two rounds left to play, it is anybody&#8217;s tournament to win! The cut after Sunday&#8217;s round will reduce the field to the top twenty-seven and ties for Monday&#8217;s final round.<\/p>\n<p>T1. <strong>Kathryn Ha\u00a0<\/strong>(Roanoke, VA 2025) \/ 70 (-2)<\/p>\n<p>T1.<strong> Ella Weber\u00a0<\/strong>(Burlington, Canada 2023) \/ 70 (-2)<\/p>\n<p>3. <b>Hailey Han\u00a0<\/b>(Duluth, GA 2025) \/ 71 (-1)<\/p>\n<p>T4. <strong>Anne-Lea Lavoie<\/strong>\u00a0(Quebec City, Canada 2023) \/ 72 (E)<\/p>\n<p>T4. <strong>Arabella Lopez<\/strong> (Ridgefield, CT 2027) \/ 72 (E)<\/p>\n<p>T4. <strong>Kinsley Smith<\/strong> (Raleigh, NC 2024) \/ 72 (E)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow the live leaderboard during the second round of the 2023 PKBGT Spring Bell Invitational and follow PKBGT on Instagram for highlight updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Live-Scoring\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"fusion-no-lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/tournaments.pkbgt.org\/Scoreboard?TournamentID=22807\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/button_blog_scoreboard.jpg\" alt=\"View Event Scoreboard\" width=\"205\" height=\"253\" data-large_image_width=\"205\" data-large_image_height=\"253\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>About the PKBGT<\/h2>\n<p>Founded in 2007 by the Triad Youth Golf Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization, as a local girls\u2019 golf tour in the Triad region of North Carolina, the tour began as a simple concept: create more effective competitive playing opportunities for girls. By utilizing innovative yardage-based divisions instead of the traditional age-based format, the tour focused on developing tournament experience at the player\u2019s pace. The 2022 season will feature over 138 tournaments in 12+ states and with over 1,000 members, the PKBGT is the largest girl\u2019s only tour in the country.\u00a0 Learn more about the PKBGT at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\/\">http:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For complete coverage of the Peggy Kirk Bell Girls&#8217; Golf Tour, follow the PKBGT on social media @PKBGirlsTour (Twitter), facebook.com\/girlsgolftour (Facebook), @pkbgirlstour (Instagram), or visit our website at <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\">www.pkbgt.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlottesville, VA &#8211; The\u00a0Peggy Kirk Bell Girls\u2019 Golf Tour traveled to Birdwood Golf Course at the Boar&#8217;s Head Resort\u00a0in Charlottesville, VA for the PKBGT Spring Invitational.\u00a0 LEADERBOARD UPDATE It&#8217;s tight at the top of the leaderboard after the opening round on Saturday! The low round of the day was two-under par 70&#8217;s shot by Kathryn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[432],"tags":[572,69,524],"class_list":["post-14610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event_news","tag-peggy-kirk-bell-girls-golf-tour","tag-pine-needles","tag-pkbgt-tour-championship-pine-needles-lodge-golf-club"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Round 1 Update: PKBGT Spring Bell Invitational - PKB Girls&#039; Tour News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The\u00a0Peggy Kirk Bell Girls\u2019 Golf Tour traveled to Coyote Creek Golf Club in Morgan Hill, CA for a regional qualifier for the NB3 Championship.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/22event102_update-2-3\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Round 1 Update: PKBGT Spring Bell Invitational - PKB Girls&#039; 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