- Westminster women's golf finished third of 14 at Glenmoor at 27 over par. Of the obvious ways to count the official scores, only one reaches that number: the four lowest of five count each round. Here is how the total was built.
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Westminster women's golf finished third of 14 teams at the Westminster Wasatch Invitational presented by Canyon View Credit Union, played September 20-21, 2026, at Glenmoor Golf Course in South Jordan. The Griffins' team total was 27 over par. Point Loma won at 1 over and Westmont was second at 15 over, according to the official Westminster recap.
The recap lists five Westminster team scores. Add all five and the Griffins would be 42 over. Their 36-hole total was 27 over because at this event a team played five and counted four, and the score it dropped could change from round to round. Walking through the numbers shows where the +27 came from.
How does college golf team scoring work at an event like this?
In this format, each team sends five players. After every round, the four lowest scores count toward the team total and the highest is dropped. Other players can enter as individuals; they play the same course on the same days, but their scores never count toward the team.
Westminster's own releases use this language. The men's recap from the Travis Roy Memorial on September 16 describes a player who "rounded out the counting score," the fourth and last score used that round.
The Glenmoor numbers fit that format, and the obvious alternatives do not produce +27. Counting all five scores gives +42. Counting each player's two-round total and dropping the highest 36-hole score gives +29. Only dropping the highest score in each round separately lands exactly on 27 over.
Round one: 9 over
Par was 72, so four counting scores make a par of 288 for a round. Westminster's five first-round scores, from the official recap:
- Ashley Lam: 71
- Kindra Hirasuna: 74
- Remi Rawlings: 75
- Lily Shin: 77
- Madalyn Hadley: 80
The 80 was dropped. The four counting scores total 297, which is 9 over par. Lam's 71, one under par, was the lowest score any Griffin posted in either round.
Round two: 18 over
The second round turned the order around:
- Hirasuna: 75
- Shin: 76
- Hadley: 77
- Lam: 78
- Rawlings: 79
This time Rawlings' 79 was the score dropped, and Hadley's 77 counted. The four counting scores total 306, or 18 over. Add the two rounds and Westminster finishes at 603 strokes, 27 over par.
Every one of the five players contributed at least one counting score. That is the practical case for five-count-four: one bad round does not sink the team, as long as it is not the same round as someone else's.
What the two days say about the lineup
Lam and Hirasuna finished tied for 13th individually at 5 over, with identical 149 totals built in different ways. Lam opened with the team's best round and finished with a 78. Hirasuna shot 74 and 75, and both rounds counted. So did both of Shin's.
Shin finished at 9 over and made the team's only eagle, the recap said. Rawlings was 10 over and Hadley 13 over. Hadley's 80 was the round the team could afford to drop, and her 77 on day two was a counting score.
The Griffins also entered three players as individuals, and their scores did not count toward the team total. Two of them opened with 75s, the same as Rawlings' first-round counting score.
How far off the top two?
Point Loma's winning total of 1 over was 26 shots better than Westminster's across the two rounds. Westmont, second at 15 over, finished 12 shots ahead. Spread across eight counting scores, the gap to second place works out to a stroke and a half per counting score, or six shots a round.
The split between the two days matters here. Westminster's first round, at 9 over, was half the cost of its second at 18 over. The fourth stop on the fall schedule is the Westmont Invitational at Sandpiper Golf Club in Goleta, California, on October 12-13.
Where it fits in the season
Glenmoor followed a tie for second of 12 at the Travis Roy Memorial in Sheridan, Wyoming, on September 13-15, where Lam and Hadley tied for fourth. RMAC coaches picked Westminster second in the preseason poll, two points behind CSU Pueblo, and named Lam and Shin Preseason All-RMAC.
All eight golfers on the 2026-27 roster list Utah hometowns. As of September 22, three fall events remained on the official schedule: the Nick Turner Invitational in Durango, Colorado, on October 5-6; the Westmont Invitational in Goleta, California, on October 12-13; and the Las Vegas Desert Classic in Boulder City, Nevada, from October 30 to November 1.
Results for every event are collected on the Westminster women's golf team page, and Lam's summer is covered in her state amateur story.
Key facts:
- Event: Westminster Wasatch Invitational presented by Canyon View Credit Union, September 20-21, 2026, Glenmoor Golf Course, South Jordan
- Result: Westminster third of 14 at +27; Point Loma won at +1, Westmont second at +15
- Round one: 297 (+9), with Hadley's 80 dropped
- Round two: 306 (+18), with Rawlings' 79 dropped
- Why not +42: five players post scores each round, but only the four lowest count
- Top Griffins: Ashley Lam and Kindra Hirasuna tied for 13th at +5 (149)
- Next event: Nick Turner Invitational, Durango, Colorado, October 5-6
