BROWNS SUMMITT, N.C. — The LSU women’s golf team, ranked 25th in the Golfstat performance rankings, plays its final regular season event of the spring beginning Friday in the annual Bryan National Collegiate at the Bryan Park Golf Course.
The event is scheduled to get underway at 10 a.m. as tournament officials will go to a shotgun start, some three hours later than scheduled to allow for warm up from near freezing overnight conditions.
The LSU group of golfers hope they play more like they did in their second of two tries at Bryan Park compared to their first visit for this tournament.
LSU finished near the bottom of the Bryan Intercollegiate in early April but came back to the course one month later and shot back-to-back rounds of even par 288 to open the NCAA East Regional and went on to qualify for the NCAA National Championships for the first time since 2001.
The tournament is co-hosted by Wake Forest and North Carolina and with LSU they will be joined by Auburn, Charleston, Duke, Florida, Florida State, Furman, Georgia, NC-Wilmington, North Carolina State, North Carolina, Ohio State, Purdue, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
LSU will have the lineup that has played the majority of the spring schedule with Melissa Eaton, coming off a sixth place finish at the Liz Murphey at Georgia in her last start, leading the team with a 75.3 strokes per round average. Also playing for the Lady Tigers will be Alexis Rather, Kim Meck, Rebecca Kuhn and Caroline Martens.
“I hope the team remembers the success they had the last time they stepped on this course,” said LSU Coach Karen Bahnsen. “The main thing is that we want to continue to move forward with our next tournament, the conference championship, in just a couple of weeks.
Live scoring for the 54-hole tournament that runs through Sunday, will be available at www.golfstat.com.