ORLANDO, Fla. – Following a training trip to Orlando last weekend, the Penn State women's golf team will head back down to the Sunshine State for the newly minted PDI Intercollegiate, formerly the UCF Challenge, beginning on Sunday morning. The three-day event will run through Tuesday afternoon.
This marks the eighth-straight season Penn State has opened its spring slate at this event. All six Nittany Lions competing this weekend have familiarity at Eagle Creek with previous years’ experience along with last weekend’s training trip where the Nittany Lions played a pair of practice rounds on the tournament course. The course is a 6,367-yard, Par-72 that goes out in 36 and comes in at 36.
Sunday and Monday will feature split tee times beginning at 8:30 a.m. while Tuesday’s final round will be an 8:45 a.m. shotgun start. Penn State will be paired with Central Arkansas for the first round along with different individuals and will tee off the 10th hole from 10 a.m. – 10:36 a.m. on Sunday morning.
Live scoring for the duration of the tournament will be available HERE.
OPPONENTS
- Two additional Big Ten squads will join the Nittany Lions in the loaded 17-team field this week as Indiana and Nebraska will tee it up alongside Penn State.
- The host Knights are then joined by Augusta, Baylor, Central Arkansas, College of Charleston, Duke, Kansas, Louisiana Monroe, Mississippi State, North Carolina, Old Dominion, Sacramento State, South Florida and Tulsa.
THE TEAM
- Penn State’s lineup remains relatively consistent from the fall season as senior classmates Drew Nienhaus (St. Louis, Mo.) and Michelle Cox (Allentown, Pa.) along with freshman Jiratchaya Jiratthitinun (Bangkok, Thailand) will slot in to the starting five with senior Jami Morris (Chagrin Falls, Ohio), junior Myranda Quinton (Burlington, Ontario) and freshman Lauren Thompstone (Paris, France) continue to qualify for the remaining two lineup spots with the other teeing it up as an individual.
- Jiratthitinun led the team in the fall with a 73.13 stroke average while Nienhaus is in the middle of a career year with a 73.86 stroke average. Cox has a 74.67 stroke average entering the spring.
NEXT UP
Penn State has the next few weeks off before returning to action with the Westbrook Invitational hosted by Wisconsin in Peroia, Arizona on February 23-24.