Two Kentucky golfers earn All-American honors

For the first time in 35 years, Kentucky Golf has an All-American. But in true Big Blue form, one was not good enough, so they got two.

The Women’s College Golf Association (WCGA) named Junior Laney Frye, as 2nd-Team All-American, one of just 16 women to earn this prestigious distinction. Her teammate, Senior Jensen Castle, was one of just 20 women in college golf to earn All-American Honorable Mention status.

This marked the first time since 1989 any women’s golfer from Kentucky earned All-American status.

Lexington native, Laney Frye, teed up four individual Kentucky records like a drive on a wide-open fairway and smashed all of them. First of all, she set the school’s single-season scoring average at 70.7. She also set the record for the number of rounds of even par or better in a season at 20 and for a career at 47. She capped off her record-breaking season with the best 18-hole round in school history, 63, at the NCAA Pullman Regional on May 10, which vaulted her into the top 10 on the leaderboard, her 7th such finish, good for most on the team.

Jensen Castle, originally from West Columbia, South Carolina, led Kentucky in top-5 finishes this season with four. She set a career-best season average of 71.7, which would have been the lowest in Kentucky history if not for Frye’s 70.7 mark.

What is even better for the Kentucky Golf program is that both players will be back next season, as Castle announced via Twitter that plans on returning for a Super Senior season. That means you can expect to even more records to be broken like my sand wedge when I can’t get it out of the bunker on the third attempt.

Congrats again to Laney Frye and Jensen Castle!