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 The defending Southern Conference Champion Catamounts will compete in 10 events during the 2007-08 season. |
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June 13, 2007
Cullowhee, N.C. - Western Carolina women's head golf coach, Steve Lott, today released his 2007-08 schedule. The defending Southern Conference Champions are scheduled to compete in 10 tournaments equally divided between the fall and spring semesters, culminating with the conference championship at the Stono Ferry Golf Links in Charleston, S.C., in late April.
WCU's schedule is headlined by five, first-time events, as well as hosting the ninth-annual Great Smokies Intercollegiate at the picturesque Waynesville Country Club.
2007-08 Western Carolina Women's Golf Schedule
"The success of our program over the last few years has helped us upgrade our schedule," said Lott. "We will be playing in five new events, with these new tournaments representing an upgrade in the level of overall competition. This schedule should help us to try and reach our goal of moving into the Top 50 rankings nationally."
Western opens its fall season with back-to-back, first-time events. On September 17-18, the Catamounts will compete in the Napa River Grill Cardinal Cup, hosted by the Univ. of Louisville - which finished 10th in the NCAA last season - at the Cardinal Club before hitting the beach the following week at the Myrtle Beach Classic at the Grande Dunes Resort (Sept. 23-24).
The Great Smokies Intercollegiate will be held Saturday, Sept. 29 through Sunday, Sept. 30, in Waynesville with Western looking for its sixth-consecutive team title. Last season, the Catamounts erased a three-stroke deficit on the final day, rallying over the final 18 holes from second-place to win by a stroke.
After two weeks off, WCU will make a third, first-time appearance in the LPGA International Xavier Invitational in Daytona Beach, Fla., on Oct. 13-14 before concluding the fall season in the Edwin Watts-Palmetto Intercollegiate at the Oak Point Links on Kiawah Island, S.C. A year ago, Western carded rounds of 298, 303, and 299 to finish with a team score of 900, which ranks as the sixth-best, 54-hole score in school history and marked WCU's best-ever scoring performance and team finish at the Palmetto Intercollegiate.
The spring season unfolds where the fall wrapped up - at Kiawah Island for the Kiawah Spring Invitational at the Osprey & Cougar Point Golf Clubs on February 24-26. Two weeks later, WCU will play in The Pinehurst Challenge on Pinehurst #8 Golf Club in Pinehurst, N.C., marking an additional two-consecutive, first-time event for the Catamounts.
Rounding out Western Carolina's regular season schedule are return trips to the John Kirk-Lady Panther Intercollegiate hosted by Georgia State at the Eagle's Landing Country Club (March 31-April 1) and the River Landing Invitational hosted by UNC Wilmington at the River Landing Golf Club in Wallace, N.C. (April 7-8). Led by graduated senior Bianca Melone at both events last season, the Catamounts finished 11th and 8th, respectively. Yet, WCU does have a team runner-up finish at River Landing (Spring, 2006) and a team title at Eagle's Landing (Fall, 2002).
The annual Southern Conference Women's Golf Championship will be held at the Stono Ferry Golf Links in Charleston, S.C., April 20-22.
Returning two All-Southern Conference selections in senior Malin Fryk and sophomore Desiree Karlsson - as well as SoCon All-tournament team selection and individual medalist from last season, senior Kandy Carland - Western will set its sights on joining Furman as just the second team in SoCon history to repeat as conference champions.
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