USF Women’s Golf set for American Championship at Pinehurst No. 6
TOURNAMENT: American Athletic Conference Championship
WHEN: Sunday, April 17-Tuesday, April 19
LOCATION: Pinehurst, N.C.
COURSE: Pinehurst No. 6 (Par 72/6,290 yards)
FOLLOW: Live Scoring
via Golfstat | Twitter @USFWGolf
WATCH: ESPN+ (Tuesday only)
TAMPA (April 15, 2022) – Following a regular season slate which saw numerous team and individual records fall, the University of South Florida women's golf team travels to Pinehurst, North Carolina for the 2022 American Athletic Conference Championship. The three-day, 54-hole tournament will be played at Pinehurst No. 6 for the second straight year.
The third and final round of the event on Tuesday will be broadcast live on ESPN+.
Tee times will begin on April 17 between 8-8:34 a.m. (ET) off the first tee with No. 1 seed UCF and No. 2 seed and defending champion Tulsa starting things off. Players from No. 3 seed Houston and No. 4 seed South Florida will head out from 8:40-9:16 a.m., followed immediately by No. 5 seed SMU and No. 6 seed East Carolina at 9:25-9:59 a.m. No. 7 seed Tulane and No. 8 seed Memphis are set to take the course between 10:07-10:41 a.m., and No. 9 seed Wichita State and No. 10 seed Cincinnati round out the entries with tee times from 10:50-11:24 a.m.
The field will be re-paired for both day two and day three based on the previous round's scoring, with split tee times off numbers one and 10 awaiting the round three pairings.
UCF enters the tournament slotted 28th in the latest Golfstat team rankings from April 12 to pace the conference. Tulsa (54), Houston (64), South Florida (77), SMU (82), East Carolina (91) and Tulane (92) are also ranked in the team top 100.
Head coach
Erika Brennan (4th season) has announced the following lineup for South Florida:
Melanie Green (Medina, N.Y.),
Morgan Baxendale (Windermere),
Ana Maria Barriga (Neiva, Colombia),
Juliana Camargo (Bogota, Colombia) and
Ashley Zagers (Oldsmar).
"It's time to put it all together this week," Brennan said. "We've been knocking through the season, but now it's time to bust down the door. Controlling the controllables. It's that simple."
The Bulls have turned in a pair of runner-up finishes this season (USA Intercollegiate and Palmetto Intercollegiate) and recorded two more top five finishes (FAU Paradise Invite and Trinity Forest Invite).
USF opened the 2021-22 season in the fall by setting new single-round (280) and 54-hole scoring (852) records at the USA Intercollegiate. The Bulls then broke that single-round record (279) a few weeks later at the Evie Odom Invite. In the first event of the spring portion of the campaign, USF set a new single-round record vs. par (-9).
Green set a new 54-hole program record with a 205 at the USA Intercollegiate. The sophomore won her first collegiate event and was named the AAC Golfer of the Week following the Trinity Forest Invitational. Green already owns the single-season program record this year for rounds of par or better with 19 (previous record 12). She is also on pace to set a new single-season scoring record (73.00), entering the AAC Championship with a scoring average of 71.16.
Complete player and team season stats can be found,
here.
About USF Women's Golf
The Bulls are in their fourth season under head coach Erika Brennan in 2021-22. 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. USF opened its abbreviated 2020-21 campaign by breaking the program team record for low 54-hole team score (861).
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