CULLOWHEE, N.C. – The Samford University women's golf team will continue play in its 2012 fall season Monday as the Bulldogs compete in the 14^th Annual Great Smokies Intercollegiate to be held at the par- 72, 5,932-yard Waynesville Inn - Golf Resort and Spa in Waynesville, N.C.
 
The competition is slated to be held Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 17-18, as a total of 84 golfers will vie for the tournament championship. The annual two-round event will be hosted by Western Carolina University and has been held every season since 1999.
 
The 2012 Great Smokies Intercollegiate consists of two days of golf beginning with a shotgun start at 8 a.m. (CDT) on Monday, Sept. 17, with the final round also teeing off with a shotgun start at 8 a.m., on Tuesday.
 
The Waynesville Inn - Golf Resort and Spa was established in 1926, nestled on the hills and valleys of Western North Carolina. The 27-hole course sits on a former dairy farm and features rolling fairways ending in bent grass greens. The course was designed by renowned golf course designer, Donald Ross, who also designed Pinehurst #2, which hosted the 2005 U.S. Open. Golf Digest gave the Waynesville Inn - Golf Resort and Spa a four-star rating.
 
This week's tournament will mark Samford's second competition of the 2012 fall season. Last week, the Bulldogs participated in the Terrier Intercollegiate and earned a seventh-place finish in the 13-team tournament hosted by Wofford University at the par-72, 5,972-yard Country Club of Spartanburg.
 
Samford concluded Tuesday's final round of competition with a score of 307, two strokes better than Monday's first-round tally of 309. The Bulldogs' final team total of 616 was good enough for a seventh-place finish in the season-opening competition and was just two strokes behind Elon for the sixth-place position.
 
Individually, Samford was paced throughout the tournament by sophomore Emily Stallings. Stallings, the Bulldogs' highly-touted native of Fayetteville, Ga., finished with a 36-hole score of 150 (73-77) and placed 15^th in the individual standings.
 
Samford's Alex Jasper also registered a top-20 performance as she carded a second-round score of 75 to place 17^th in the final rankings. The Bulldogs' junior native of Clarksville, Tenn., finished the tournament with a total of 151 after posting a first-round score of 75 on Monday.
 
Rounding out Samford's individual scoring from the 2012 Terrier Intercollegiate were Natalie Mitchell (81-77=158), Bailey Gray (80-78=158) and Kayla Turner (80-81=161).
 
Play in the 2012 Great Smokies Intercollegiate will consist of starts in both the first and second rounds Monday and Tuesday at 8 a.m. (CDT). Admission is free and the tournament is open to the public.