Women's Golf Releases 2016-17 Schedule
6/22/2016 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
Complete 2016-17 Schedule
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan State women's golf head coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll has announced the team's 2016-17 schedule.
The Spartans begin the season on Sept. 16-18 in Franklin, Tennessee, playing at the Vanderbilt Legends Club in the Mason Rudolph Championship for the fifth straight season.
Michigan State returns home to host the 33rd annual Mary Fossum Invitational Sept. 24-25 at Forest Akers West in East Lansing. MSU has won its home tournament eight out of the past 13 years.
MSU wraps up the fall season in North Carolina with two familiar October tournaments. The Spartans will play in the Tar Heel Invitational in Chapel Hill from Oct. 14-16 and then head to the Landfall Tradition Oct. 28-30 in Wilmington.
In February, the team opens the spring with a trip to Tallahassee, Florida, to compete in the Seminole Match Up (Feb. 10-12) taking place at the Seminole Golf Course.
Later in the month, the Spartans host the Central District Invitational in Port St. Lucie, Florida, from Feb. 20-21. It will be the 16th time Michigan State hosts the event, as the Spartans hosted the CDI from 2000-14 in Florida. From 2000-2013, the CDI took place at the River Wilderness Country Club in Parrish, Florida, before the tournament moved to Lakewood Ranch Golf Club in Lakewood Ranch in 2014. MSU hosted the inaugural Central District Invitational in October of 2000. Since 2002, the Spartans have hosted the tournament in February and have won the CDI twice (2002, 2008).
Michigan State will then take its annual spring break trip March 6-10 in Lecanto and Naples, Florida. MSU will also return to the Briar's Creek Invitational for the third year in a row March 20-21. The fifth-year event will be played at The Golf Club at Briar's Creek in Johns Island, South Carolina.
The Spartans compete in the Clemson Invitational on April 1-3. It will be held at The Reserve at Lake Keowee, which was designed by golf legend Jack Nicklaus, in Sunset, South Carolina.
MSU finishes the regular season at the Lady Buckeye Invitational April 15-16 at the Scarlet Course in Columbus, Ohio.
The Big Ten Championships (April 21-23) will take place at TPC River's Bend, designed by Arnold Palmer, in Maineville, Ohio.
The NCAA Regionals will be held in various locations across the country from May 8-10 and the NCAA Championships are set for May 19-24 at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Illinois.
