Career-best round from Haight has #12 Amherst in fourth place after first round at Jekyll Island

JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. – Led by a career-best round of 77 from junior Ivy Haight , the Amherst College women’s golf team kicked off its spring schedule on Friday at the Jekyll Island Collegiate Invitational, sitting in fourth place after the first of three rounds on the par-72 Indian Mound Course at Jekyll Island Golf Club. The reigning NESCAC champion Mammoths, ranked 11th in the nation in the latest WGCA Division III poll, carded a team score of 314 (+26) to rank fourth amongst the field of 18 teams that includes four other nationally ranked squads. Seventh-ranked Redlands scored a…