Monday, September 13
Charleston, S.C. (Yeamans Hall)
Michigan State University
vs
Cougar Classic
Women’s Golf Begins New Season on Monday
9/10/2021 4:03:00 PM | Women's Golf
EAST LANSING -- The Michigan State women's golf team will open the 2021-22 season this Monday and Tuesday (Sept. 13-14) with the Cougar Classic, hosted by the College of Charleston. The 54-hole tournament will take place at Yeamans Hall Club in Hanahan, South Carolina.
The highly-competitive 17-team field includes 11 teams that earned bids to last year's NCAA Regionals. Action begins with 36 holes of continuous on Monday, starting at 8:30 a.m. The final round will take place on Tuesday with another shotgun start at 8:45 a.m.
THE LINEUP
1 – Valentina Rossi (So., Rosario, Argentina)
2 – Valery Plata (Sr., Floridablanca, Colombia)
3 – Leila Raines (So., Galena, Ohio)
4 – Brooke Biermann (Fr., Wildwood, Mo.)
5 – Haylin Harris (Sr., Carmel, Ind.)
THE FIELD
Arkansas*, Baylor*, College of Charleston*, Clemson*, Florida*, Furman, Georgia*, Maryland*, Miami*, Michigan State*, N.C. State, North Carolina, Penn State, Tennessee*, UCF*, Vanderbilt and Wisconsin.
(* 2021 NCAA Regional qualifier)
THE COURSE
Built in 1925, the par-72 Yeamans Hall Club will play at 6,301 yards for the Cougar Classic.
LIVE SCORING
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THE CHAMPS ARE BACK
Michigan State is coming off a 2021 spring which saw the Spartans win their eighth Big Ten title under head coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll, who is entering her 25th season at the helm of the program. The Spartans garnered the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Regionals where they went on to advance to the NCAA Championships. It marked MSU's second trip to the NCAA Championships since 2017.
MSU returns several key players from last year's championship team, including Valentina Rossi, Valery Plata, Haylin Harris and Leila Raines, all of whom will be in the lineup at the Cougar Classic. Plata won the Big Ten's Mary Fossum Award last season for the lowest stroke average to par, becoming the second Spartan to capture the honor named after the late Spartan head coach.
SPARTANS IN THE SUMMER
Several members of the Spartan program had memorable summers in 2021, highlighted by another appearance in the U.S. Women's Amateur semifinals. A year after Valery Plata advanced to the semifinals of the U.S. Women's Amateur, Valentina Rossi accomplished the feat this summer at the Westchester Country Club. MSU was the only school to have a current student-athlete reach the semifinals of the world's premiere women's amateur tournament in each of the last two seasons.
Plata, who also played in this year's U.S. Women's Amateur Championship and advanced to the round of 32, earned a sponsor exemption to play in the Meijer LPGA Classic. Haylin Harris won the Indiana PGA Women's Open.
The highly-competitive 17-team field includes 11 teams that earned bids to last year's NCAA Regionals. Action begins with 36 holes of continuous on Monday, starting at 8:30 a.m. The final round will take place on Tuesday with another shotgun start at 8:45 a.m.
THE LINEUP
1 – Valentina Rossi (So., Rosario, Argentina)
2 – Valery Plata (Sr., Floridablanca, Colombia)
3 – Leila Raines (So., Galena, Ohio)
4 – Brooke Biermann (Fr., Wildwood, Mo.)
5 – Haylin Harris (Sr., Carmel, Ind.)
THE FIELD
Arkansas*, Baylor*, College of Charleston*, Clemson*, Florida*, Furman, Georgia*, Maryland*, Miami*, Michigan State*, N.C. State, North Carolina, Penn State, Tennessee*, UCF*, Vanderbilt and Wisconsin.
(* 2021 NCAA Regional qualifier)
THE COURSE
Built in 1925, the par-72 Yeamans Hall Club will play at 6,301 yards for the Cougar Classic.
LIVE SCORING
Golfstat
THE CHAMPS ARE BACK
Michigan State is coming off a 2021 spring which saw the Spartans win their eighth Big Ten title under head coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll, who is entering her 25th season at the helm of the program. The Spartans garnered the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Regionals where they went on to advance to the NCAA Championships. It marked MSU's second trip to the NCAA Championships since 2017.
MSU returns several key players from last year's championship team, including Valentina Rossi, Valery Plata, Haylin Harris and Leila Raines, all of whom will be in the lineup at the Cougar Classic. Plata won the Big Ten's Mary Fossum Award last season for the lowest stroke average to par, becoming the second Spartan to capture the honor named after the late Spartan head coach.
SPARTANS IN THE SUMMER
Several members of the Spartan program had memorable summers in 2021, highlighted by another appearance in the U.S. Women's Amateur semifinals. A year after Valery Plata advanced to the semifinals of the U.S. Women's Amateur, Valentina Rossi accomplished the feat this summer at the Westchester Country Club. MSU was the only school to have a current student-athlete reach the semifinals of the world's premiere women's amateur tournament in each of the last two seasons.
Plata, who also played in this year's U.S. Women's Amateur Championship and advanced to the round of 32, earned a sponsor exemption to play in the Meijer LPGA Classic. Haylin Harris won the Indiana PGA Women's Open.
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