{"id":28852,"date":"2012-04-16T17:45:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T17:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.golf1.is\/?p=28852"},"modified":"2012-04-16T18:02:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T18:02:15","slug":"reflection-on-what-happened-in-the-world-of-golf-last-week-no-1-us-college-golf-olafia-thorunn-kristinsdottir-got-2-place-at-acc-women%c2%b4s-golf-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/reflection-on-what-happened-in-the-world-of-golf-last-week-no-1-us-college-golf-olafia-thorunn-kristinsdottir-got-2-place-at-acc-women%c2%b4s-golf-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection on what happened in the world of golf last week no. 2: Icelanders in US College Golf – \u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn Kristinsd\u00f3ttir T-2 at ACC Women\u00b4s Golf Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are about 12 Icelandic golfers who play golf on US College Golf Teams (these golfers will be introduced later here on Golf 1). \u00a0Three of \u201eour” young Icelandic golfers were competing with their teams in the US this weekend and others will start today on Monday. Let\u00b4s talk a bit about the three competing this past weekend: \u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn Kristinsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong>, \u00d3lafur Bj\u00f6rn Loftsson<\/strong> and Berglind Bj\u00f6rnsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn Kristinsd\u00f3ttir, Photo: Kristinn J. G\u00edslason (her dad)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn Kristinsd\u00f3ttir<\/em><\/p>\n

The first one worth mentioning is our gorgeous\u00a0\u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn Kristinsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong><\/span>, Icelandic Champion in both Match and Stroke Play 2011. In Iceland she\u00b4s member of Iceland\u00b4s largest golfclub, the Golf Club in Reykjavik (GR). She \u00a0plays golf on the Wake Forest Golf Team, a.o. with Cheyenne Woods<\/strong>, niece of the best golfer in the world, Tiger Woods<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This weekend Wake Forest and \u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn\u00a0participated in the \u00a0ACC Women\u00b4s Golf Championship at Sedgefield Country Club in North-Carolina. \u00a0The course was extremely difficult and scores below par rare. Especially the extremely fast greens made good putting difficult. Getting par was like getting birdie on any given day. However \u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn managed two rounds under par; she shot \u00e1 -1 under par (70) the first day and a -3 under par (68) in the final round, which was broadcast live on ACC.com and made us Icelanders extremely proud of her!<\/p>\n

She finished the tournament T-2 along with Alejandra Cangrejo<\/strong>, from Duke University and Marina Salinas<\/strong> from Florida State. Phsychology major\u00a0Lindy Duncan<\/strong>, twice named ACC\u00b4s Women Golfer of the year won the tournament.<\/p>\n

You can see the scores from the ACC Women\u00b4s Golf Championship by clicking\u00a0HERE:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00d3lafur Bj\u00f6rn Loftsson. Photo: Charlotte.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00d3lafur Bj\u00f6rn Loftsson<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00d3lafur Bj\u00f6rn Loftsson is quite familiar with the Sedgefield golfcourse in Greensboro, North-Carolina, where \u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn played yesterday because he took part in the Wyndham Championship a tournament held each year at Sedgefield, on the PGA Tour. \u00d3lafur competed last year in the tournament and was the first Icelander to play on the PGA Tour. He missed the cut by one stroke. A Wake Forest alumni, Webb Simpson won the tournment. \u00d3lafur Bj\u00f6rn had earned the right to play as an amateur in the tournament since he won the Cardinal tournament earlier.<\/p>\n

In Iceland \u00d3lafur Bj\u00f6rn is member of the Golf Club of Nes (Icelandic: Neskl\u00fabburinn). He also is the Icelandic Champion in Stroke Play 2009 (He won after a most amazing and memorable final round where he needed 4 birdies on the last 4 holes in Grafarholt (One of GR\u00b4s (Iceland\u00b4s largest Golf Club) 3 golfcourses) and got the job done!<\/p>\n

In the States he plays on the Golfteam of the Charlotte 49ers. \u00d3lafur Bj\u00f6rn and the Niners played this weekend on the\u00a0Hawkeye-Great River Entertainment Invitational. This was a 2 day tournament taking place on the\u00a0Finkbine golfcourse in Iowa City, Iowa. Participants were 60 from 11 Colleges.<\/p>\n

\u00d3lafur Bj\u00f6rn\u00b4s combined score was a +3 over par, 219 strokes\u00a0(75 72 72) and he finished T-21. \u00a0He had the 2nd best score of the Nineres this time.<\/p>\n

Nate McCoy<\/strong>, Iowa State, won the tournament convincingly at -14 under par, 202 strokes \u00a0(68 65 69).<\/p>\n

The Niners finished in 4th place.<\/p>\n

You can see the results from the\u00a0Hawkeye-Great River Entertainment Invitational by clicking\u00a0HERE:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Berglind Bj\u00f6rnsd\u00f3ttir. Photo: UNCG<\/p><\/div>\n

Berglind Bj\u00f6rnsd\u00f3ttir<\/em><\/p>\n

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Berglind Bj\u00f6rnsd\u00f3ttir is also playing in the US College Golf circuit. She just started at UNCG and yesterday she and her teammates started their 1st round at the\u00a0Southern Conference Champion in\u00a0Moss Creek Golf Club on Hilton Head Island in South-Carolina. This is a 3 day tournament, going from April 15th through April 17th 2012. \u00a0There are 50 participants from 10 Colleges.<\/p>\n

Yesterday Berglind carded a +7 over par score, i.e. a 79 and is T-16. Her team, UNCG on the other hand is in 1. place and Berglind\u00b4s score counts, since she had the 4th best score on her team.<\/p>\n

You can see the results from the\u00a0Southern Conference Champion by clicking\u00a0HERE:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are about 12 Icelandic golfers who play golf on US College Golf Teams (these golfers will be introduced later here on Golf 1). \u00a0Three of \u201eour” young Icelandic golfers were competing with their teams in the US this weekend and others will start today on Monday. Let\u00b4s talk a bit about the three competing this past weekend: \u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn Kristinsd\u00f3ttir, \u00d3lafur Bj\u00f6rn Loftsson and Berglind Bj\u00f6rnsd\u00f3ttir. \u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn Kristinsd\u00f3ttir The first one worth mentioning is our gorgeous\u00a0\u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn Kristinsd\u00f3ttir, Icelandic Champion in both Match and Stroke Play 2011. In Iceland she\u00b4s member of Iceland\u00b4s largest golfclub, the Golf Club in Reykjavik (GR). She \u00a0plays golf on the Wake Forest Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","cat-7-id"],"acf":[],"views":2448,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}