The championship Alabama women’s golf was supposed to win became the one it looked like it couldn’t win. Then a courageous comeback pushed the match to dead even, with the final pair of golfers moving on to a playoff.
Shortly after Lakareber’s birdie putt slid off, ever so slightly wide of the hole, Arizona made a winning birdie. The Crimson Tide golf team did not lose by a single putt, an inch wide of the hole, it lost many times throughout the match, but it never quit fighting.
Alabama women’s golf lost because a little-heralded freshman for Arizona soundly out-played, the Tide’s Lauren Stephenson.