SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Every team wants a player who steps up and delivers in the biggest moments. For the Georgia women, that’d be Candice Mahé.
Sure, the native of Gourin, France, only has a pair of top-five finishes for the Bulldogs, but both have been in the postseason. Mahé finished T-5 at last year’s Columbus regional, T-3 at this year’s Albuquerque regional and currently sits T-6 at the 2022 NCAA Div. I Women’s Golf Championship following a second-round 3-under 69, one shot off the low round of the day.
“It just shows her teammates it’s out there. Be patient, you can make it. You can do this,” said head coach Josh Brewer of the importance of Mahé’s round. Georgia climbed seven spots into 10th place, five positions inside Sunday’s 54-hole cut to the top 15 teams. “She shows up at the right time.”
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“That’s the reason why I play golf. I really like pressure and when there’s people watching,” said Mahé. “Everybody remembers the name of the national champion and not the regular season and I feel like this tournament is way more important. I might be able to focus way more and I’m gonna have to work on this to find the same thing for regular season, but I’m sure it’s gonna come.”
Mahé became just the fourth Bulldog to shoot a sub-70 round at the NCAA Championship, joining the likes of 1992 national champion Vicki Goetze, 2002 runner-up Summer Sirmons and Shauna Estes, who finished third in 1999. After a 6 under start through her first 11 holes, Mahé made her first two bogeys of the day on Nos. 12 and 13, bounced back with a birdie on the 14th and then made double bogey on the par-4 17th.
“Obviously right now I’m still frustrated from my round because I was 6 under after 11 and I feel like when you have that good of a start you should be able to go super low,” said Mahé, who credited her consecutive bogeys to her adrenaline which impacted her distance control. “I finished with a…
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