Oct. 27, 2016
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. ââ'¬" After a little over a three-week break the Penn State women's golf team is back competing in their final tournament of the fall season, the 15th annual Landfall Tradition hosted by UNCW.
The three-day tournament will begin on Friday and conclude Sunday with 18-holes played each day. It will take place in Wilmington, N.C. at the Pete Dye Course, which has a total yardage of 6,166 and a par of 72.
This is the Lion's ninth appearance in the Landfall Tradition, with their best finish coming in 2005 when they finished tied for seventh. Last year at this tournament the team finished in 13th place, but Lauren Waller (Canonsburg, Pa.) who was a newcomer at the time finished in the top 10 at ninth place shooting a total score of 215 1-under, with a 68 4-under in the final round, her career low round score.
Head coach Denise St. Pierre will be traveling with the same starting lineup as she did for the Cougar Classic. That lineup includes three sophomores Jackie Rogowicz (Yardley, Pa.), Lauren Waller (Canonsburg, Pa.), and Cara Basso (Downingtown, Pa.), as well as a newcomer Maddy Herr (New Hope, Pa.), and the senior Kate Granahan (Allentown, Pa.).
These five players have competed in every tournament this fall season. Senior Kate Granahan will be making her second straight start of the season and is the only player in the starting lineup who has not started in all four tournaments.
The tournament field will consist of 18 teams this year. Penn State is joined by Iowa, Michigan State, and Purdue representing the Big Ten, while the other 14 teams competing are; Alabama, Brown, Clemson, Furman, North Carolina, NC State, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas Tech, UCF, UNCW, Virginia, Wake Forest.
To start the first round tomorrow, Penn State will be teeing off on hole 10 at 9:15 a.m. with South Carolina and Virginia playing in their group.
Live scoring will be available through golfstat.com.