Women's Golf Heads South for Landfall Tradition
10/26/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
Oct. 26, 2006
EAST LANSING, Mich. - The Michigan State women's golf team travels to Wilmington, N.C., to compete in the Landfall Tradition on Oct. 27-29, hosted by UNC-Wilmington. The 54-hole event will be held at the 6,115-yard Jack Nicklaus Course at the Country Club of Landfall, and will feature a 12-team field that includes four Big Ten teams and five teams ranked in the Golfweek/Sagarin top 25.
ACC foes No. 9 Virginia, No. 13 Wake Forest and North Carolina State headline the field, while No. 22 Michigan State, No. 25 Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State will represent the Big Ten. No. 16 New Mexico, UNC-Greensboro, UNC-Wilmington, South Florida and Tulsa complete the tournament field.
A pair of players ranked in the Golfweek/Sagarin top 100 will lead the Spartans into their fourth event of the season. Junior Sara Brown (No. 58) is seeking her 15th-consecutive finish in the top 25, a streak that dates back to the 2005 Mary Fossum Invitational. On the season, Brown leads the team with a 74.78 scoring average and three top-20 finishes.
Senior Heather Rose (No. 98) owns the team's second-lowest scoring average (75.56) and has posted a team-high two top-five finishes. She also paces the team with two rounds of even-par or better and a 73.00 final round scoring average.
Senior Mandi McConnell, freshman Laura Kueny, and senior Rachel Meikle complete the Spartan lineup. McConnell and Kueny have played in each event this season and have combined for two top-five finishes, while Meikle will make her third start of the season.
First and second round tee-times will begin at 9:12 a.m., while Sunday's final round will begin at 8:23 a.m. The Golf Channel will be covering the event and live scoring will be available at golfstat.com.
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