SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – As Mississippi State orchestrated a furious back-nine charge late Sunday evening at Grayhawk Golf Club, the Bulldog players didn’t just feel it; they could hear it.
Woof! Woof! Woof!
“When you start hearing Chuck Daniel barking,” head coach Charlie Ewing says, “then you know what’s going on.”
That would be Chuck Daniel, former Mississippi State baseball player and dad of current Bulldogs senior Abbey Daniel, who with her team a few shots outside the cut line stuffed her approach shot to 6 inches at the par-4 penultimate hole. The birdie moved Mississippi State to 20 over, two shots back of San Jose State, which had just played the par-5 finishing hole in a bogey-free 3 under and figured it had just earned, by one shot over Baylor, the 15th and final berth into Monday’s final round of stroke play at the NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championship.