Women’s golf set for AAC Championship at Pinehurst
TOURNAMENT: American Athletic Conference Championship
WHEN: Sunday, April 18 - Tuesday, April 20
LOCATION: Pinehurst, N.C.
COURSE: Pinehurst No. 6 (Par 72, 6,290 yards)
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TAMPA (April 17, 2021) – The USF women's golf team travels to Pinehurst, N.C. for the 2021 AAC Championship beginning on Sunday. The 54-hole event will be played over three days at Pinehurst No. 6. The 10-team filed will play one 18-hole round each day in stroke play following the five-count-four scoring format.
The Bulls enter the tournament as the four seed and will be paired with third-seeded Tulsa to open play off the first hole on Sunday with tee times set for 8:40-9:12 a.m. The field will be re-paired for the following rounds on Monday and Tuesday based on subsequent scoring.
No. 1 Houston and No. 2 seed UCF tee off first on Sunday. No. 5 seed East Carolina and No. 6 seed SMU will follow USF and Tulsa off the first hole. No. 7 seed Tulane and No. 8 seed Memphis will be paired, while No. 9 Cincinnati and No. 10 Wichita State round out the field.
USF placed fifth in the last AAC Women's Golf Championship held in 2019 with the 2020 event being cancelled.
Top-seeded Houston has won two straight AAC Championships. Houston comes into the event ranked No. 20 in the latest Golfstat national rankings. USF checks in at No. 68 among Division I programs.
THE BULLS
Shelby Brauckmuller (Auburndale) has paced USF in each of the last two tournaments, taking over the lead in team scoring average for the year at 75.08. The senior owns a season-best score of 222 over 54-holes, and placed 10th last time out at the Brickyard Collegiate. Brauckmuller's final round of 70 at the Brickyard was the second-lowest of any player in the field as the veteran will look to build off that momentum at the AAC Championship.
Melanie Green (Medina, N.Y.) owns a scoring average of 75.17, and posted a season-best score of 211 to place second in her collegiate debut in 2021 at the FAU Paradise Invite. The freshman has carded par or better in four rounds and shot in the 60s twice.
Jessica Whitting (Perth, Australia) has a scoring average of 75.42 over 12 rounds this year, while posting two rounds of par or better and a season-low score of 69.
Junior
Ashley Zagers (Oldsmar) has recorded a scoring average of 76.42 entering the AAC Championship followed by freshman
Erika Smith (Orlando) at 77.17. Both players have competed in all four tournaments this spring.
Those five golfers will comprise the Bulls' starting lineup at the AAC Championship in Pinehurst.
About USF Women's Golf
The Bulls are in their third season under head coach Erika Brennan in 2020-21. USF is among the fastest rising program in the country, as they climbed 75 spots in the national Golfstat rankings following Brennan's first season. The Bulls won two tournaments in 2018-19 and set several program records, including season scoring average (293.43) and team rounds of par or better (6), and in
2019-20 the Bulls posted a wire-to-wire win at the Old Friends Invitational, marking the program's third tournament title since spring 2019.
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