If Delaney Benson of Pinehurst Country Club and Hannah More of CommonGround Golf Course were intimidated by playing with Colorado Golf Hall of Famers Kim Eaton and Janet Moore on Monday in the first round of the CGA Women’s Brassie Championship, they had an unusual way of showing it.
The college golfers — Benson plays for Creighton and More for Colorado Mesa — shot a better-ball score of 7-under-par 65 on Monday, while Eaton and Moore carded a 72 at The Club at Flying Horse in Colorado Springs.
That gives Benson and More a seven-stroke lead in the championship flight going into Tuesday’s final round of the four-ball stroke-play event. They made eight better-ball birdies and one bogey on Monday and posted a 6-under-par 30 on the back nine.
Eaton, who now lives in Arizona, and Moore, from Cherry Hills Country Club, own 44 CGA women’s championship titles between them, including 10 Brassies, though they haven’t won the Brassie together.
On Monday, the Hall of Famers recorded two birdies and two bogeys in their even-par round.
Kathy West of Castle Pines, who won last year’s Brassie title with Christie Austin, and new partner Sue O’Connor of Wellshire Golf Course sit in third place at 75.
Sixty-four teams are competing in seven flights at the Women’s Brassie in gross and net divisions. Eight of those are in championship flight.
The Brassie is the first CGA women’s championship of 2018.
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