The Bruins’ trip to Hawaii was highlighted by a hole-in-one.

During round one of the Nanea Pac-12 Preview on Monday, redshirt sophomore Alessia Nobilio recorded her first collegiate hole-in-one on the 11th hole. Nobilio’s opening-round performance – alongside a pair of top-10 finishes from sophomores Zoe Antoinette Campos and Caroline Canales – helped No. 23 UCLA women’s golf to a fifth-place finish at the tournament, which ran from Monday to Wednesday at the Nanea Golf Club.

With a one on her scorecard and five birdies, Nobilio finished the first day at 3-under 70, putting her in a tie for ninth place. Alongside Nobilio, Campos recorded her first score in the 60s of the season, putting her in a tie for seventh place at 4-under 69 after play concluded Monday.

Coach Carrie Forsyth said she was proud of Campos’ performance during the tournament.

“Zoe has just really brought her game together this year,” Forsyth said. “She had a lot of struggles last season. She is getting better. She is the player that I believe she can be. … It just gives me a lot of satisfaction to see that growth.”

The tournament field consisted of Hawai’i and all 10 other Pac-12 women’s golf teams, including No. 1 Stanford, which took home gold with a score of 18-under 858 behind individual tournament-winner Rose Zhang. The next time the Bruins will face off against the rest of their conference will be at the Pac-12 championships in April.

Forsyth said playing against the other conference teams provides good feedback not only for the Pac-12 championships but also for the rest of the season. The main focus for the team coming out of the tournament is maintaining consistency across the board.

“We are kind of struggling getting five good scores, and that’s really important,” Forsyth said. “We have to have five players that are scoring. That’s kind of been the factor for us. … We are just lacking in consistency.”

Finishing first among the blue and gold, Canales had her lowest scores during the first and third rounds, when she shot 3-under 70.

With three scores in the low 70s, Canales attributed her consistency to the swing work she did during the summer leading up to this season.

“Last year, I would say there was a bit more variation in my swing and the consistency,” Canales said. “We’ve worked to kind of tighten it up, in a technical sense, so that there is less variation and so that the ball flight is more consistent.”

UCLA dropped one place between round one and round two with a team-wide 20-stroke increase between the two rounds. The only player in the Bruins’ lineup to improve her individual score between the first and second round was senior Yuki Yoshihara, who shot a 6-over 79 on Tuesday.

Despite the higher scores, both Canales and Campos went up in the standings after round two. Campos finished the second round in a tie for third, carding a score of 2-under 71, while Canales sat in sixth place after round two with a score of even 73.

Forsyth said the rise in scores during round two was because the wind picked up during the final six holes, making the course difficult.

“It (The wind) kind of changes the whole golf course,” Forsyth said. “It makes it play really really tough, so that was a big factor. And obviously, we had a few of our players who did not handle that change in weather very well.”

The final round of the tournament is when senior Annabel Wilson saw her best score, aiding in the blue and gold’s rise to fifth place on the leaderboard. Canales finished at 6-under 213 to push her individual spot on the leaderboard into a tie for fourth.

Canales said she felt the final round of the tournament was her best.

“I was finally breaking through and getting a lot of birdies,” Canales said. “Even though on the first day, I shot the same score, it was with less birdies. It was kind of with a million pars it felt like. Yesterday (Wednesday), I definitely felt like my putter was more consistent, and I really trusted it, and the putts really started to fall.”

The Nanea Pac-12 Preview was UCLA’s last tournament of the fall season. The Bruins will now head into an almost three-monthlong break, with their next tournament being the Match in the Desert on Jan. 23.

Canales said the fall season has been a good experience for her, but she is looking to work on her game further during the hiatus.

“The good thing about the golf season is that, although it’s year round, we kind of get this break in November and December to work on specific things,” Canales said. “(We also) have a break from competitive play before starting back up in January and February, so I would say I am heading in the right direction.”