Monday, February 24
Mobile, Ala.
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USA Women's Invitational
Junior Emily Stallings and the Bulldogs will look to open their 2014 season in impressive fashion this week at the USA Women's Invitational.
Bulldogs Head To Mobile For 2014 Tourney Opener
2.23.14 | Women's Golf
Samford will square off against 13 teams Monday and Tuesday at the Azalea City Golf Club
Round One Tee Times
MOBILE, Ala. -- The Samford University women's golf team will begin play in its 2014 tournament season Monday at 8:15 a.m. (CST) as the Bulldogs face off against 13 teams at the 12th Annual USA Women's Invitational being hosted by the University of South Alabama at the Azalea City Golf Club.
The 14-team field is slated to play 36 holes Monday, followed by the final 18 holes of the tournament Tuesday beginning at 8:15 a.m. All of the competition will be held at the par-72, 6,071-yard Azalea City Golf Club.
The field for this week's tournament will consist of the following teams: Samford, host-school South Alabama, Alabama State, UALR, Eastern Kentucky, Jackson State, Jacksonville State, Louisiana-Monroe, New Orleans (UNO), Southern Illinois, Spring Hill, Troy, UAB and Western Kentucky.
Louisiana-Monroe heads into the competition as the defending champion of the USA Women's Invitational. Last season, the Warhawks claimed the team title by posting a final 36-hole score of 616 (310-306).
Emelie Westrup of Arkansas-Little Rock earned Individual Medalist honors last season with a tournament-best mark of 149 (76-73).
Earlier this spring, Samford competed in the one-day Lady Bulldog Individual Tournament, which was held at the par-72, 6,335-yard University of Georgia Golf Course on Feb. 8.
Against some of the top collegiate golfers in the nation, Samford's junior Bailey Gray earned a top-10 finish at the talent-laden tournament. Gray, the Bulldogs' talented native of Trussville, Ala., registered a 36-hole score of 153 (76-77) and finished just two strokes out of a seventh-place tie with Tennessee's Emmie Pietila.
Samford true freshman Arin Eddy earned a 23rd-place finish with a two-round tally of 158 (80-78). She was followed by teammates Natalie Mitchell (82-77=159), Sydney Needham (84-77=160), Emily Stallings (80-84=164), Alex Jasper (89-80=169) and Haley Harrington (88-94=182).
Following this week's 2014 USA Women's Invitational hosted by the University of South Alabama, the Samford University women's golf team will next be in action March 2-4 as the Bulldogs head to Kiawah Island, S.C., for the 2014 Edwin Watts/Kiawah Island Classic, which will be held at both Oak Point and Cougar Point Country Clubs.
Round One Tee Times
Monday, September 14
Sunday, September 13
Monday, September 07
Friday, September 04
