TOURNAMENT FIELD
Boston College, UCF, CHATTANOOGA,
East Carolina, Florida International, Furman, Georgia State, Illinois, James
Madison, Kansas, Michigan, Purdue, USF, Texas Tech, Wisconsin
TOURNAMENT INFO
Dates: April 9-10
Location: Melbourne, Fla.
Format: 54 Holes (36/18)
Course: Suntree Country Club (Par 72)
No. of Teams 15
Defending Champ: 1st year
LINEUP
HEAD COACH
COLETTE MURRAY (Jacksonville State '04) is in her fifth
year as a head coach, all at Chattanooga.
She began a program from scratch that had been discontinued in the
1980's. The Mocs have 11 team titles
with eight medalists under her watch.
LAST TIME OUT
UTC was 15th at the SunTrust Gator Women's Golf
Invitational at the University of Florida's Mark Bostick Course. The Mocs shot
923 with rounds of 302, 311 and 310. Jordan Britt (Chattanooga, Tenn.) led the
way tying for 39th at 225 (+15).
UP NEXT
Chattanooga returns to the tee April 15-17 defending its
Southern Conference Championship. The event returns to Moss Creek Golf Club in
Hilton Head, S.C. The Mocs have won back-to-back titles at Moss Creek.
NOTES
- This is the final event of the regular season for UTC.
- Florida looks to becoming a second home for the Mocs.
Three of the four spring events have taken place in the Sunshine State.
- Stat leaders:
- Eagles:
Mette Kryger, 2
- Birdies:
Jordan Britt, 47 (2.24/rd)
- Pars:
Marion Duvernay, 210/Maju Loza, 10.22/rd
- Par/Better
Holes: Duvernay, 66.4%
- Par 3
Scoring: Loza, 3.28 (+21)
- Par 4
Scoring: Britt, 4.37 (+77)
- Par 5
Scoring: Duvernay, 5.13 (+11)
Complete statistics are on pages four and five of game notes link above.
- Maria Juliana Loza (Bucaramanga, Colombia) battled
injury and illness in the fall struggling to an 80.33 stroke average. In three
spring events, her average is 76.67 strokes per round, second only to Britt's
75.11 through 162 holes.
- Sophomore Sophie Weilguni (Langenlois, Austria) is
seeing her first team action of 2012 after joining the team in January. She
played as an individual on Kiawah Island finishing tied for 59th at 233 (+17),
the team's third-best result. She was third on the team finishing tied for 60th
at UF but led the squad with six birdies.
- Duvernay's tie for fifth at the season opener, Golfweek
Conference Challenge, was the best finish by a Moc in the fall. She shot
five-over par 221 with rounds of 72, 77 and 72. She had a team-best three par
or better rounds in four events.
- Britt shot a career-best 220 (+4) at the JMU Eagle
Landing Invitational. She fired rounds of 70, 74 and 76. The 70 tied her
season-low as she tied for 10th, her second career top 10. The previous was her
runner-up finish at the 2011 Southern Conference Championship.
- Mette Kryger (Nivaa, Denmark) closed strong at Eagle
Landing tallying her first par or better round as a collegian. The one-under
par 71 over the final 18 holes bettered her prior low round of 73 done multiple
times. The highlight of the round came from a fairway bunker on the par four
ninth hole. From 145 yards out and the wind in her face, Kryger holed out with
a five iron for her second eagle of the season.
- Britt and Duvernay had the low round of the fall
semester for the Mocs. Each carded two-under par 70s on UNC's Finley Golf Course.
- Loza missed her first collegiate even since joining the
program in the fall of 2008 at the Tar Heel Invitational due to an elbow
injury.
- Britt had a season-best nine birdies at the Tar Heel
Invite.
- Duvernay posted a career-high five birdies on her card
in her two-under par round at the Tar Heel Invite.
- Kryger shot her lowest rounds of the fall with 73s (+1)
in the first two 18s at the Tar Heel Invite. She set season bests for birdies
in a round (4) and tourney (7), pars in a round (13) and had zero scores higher
than bogey for her first time with the Mocs.
- Kryger played in one of the top international amateur
events in November. She was selected to
represent Denmark at the Spirit International at Whispering Pines Golf Club in
Trinity, Texas. The 72-hole competition
featured 80 female and male golfers from 20 invited countries each year. Each nation selects two women and two men to
represent it at the event. Kryger helped lead the Danish squad to an
eighth-place finish at 12-under par in combined totals, and a tie for seventh
on the women's side at four under with Sara Monberg (Tennessee) Kryger tied for
seventh in birdies scored with nine.
- Former UTC standout Emma de Groot (Coffs Harbour, New
South Wales, Australia) posted two new milestones in her career. One, she
graduated in December with a degree in sports management. In November she
earned LPGA Futures Tour status after falling short in earning her LPGA Tour
card at Q School.
- The Mocs return four letterwinners, three starters from
last year's SoCon Championship squad which tied the school record with four
wins. All-SoCon and All-NCAA Central
Regional Maju Loza is back for her final season joined by SoCon All-Freshman
performers Britt and Duvernay.
- Kryger entered UTC with impressive credentials. She had two top 10s in 2011 after finishing
as runner-up in the 2010 Royal Tour Championship with four top 10s
overall. She has represented Denmark in
several team competitions.
- Britt had good results over the summer. She finished in the semifinals of the
Tennessee Amateur, quarterfinals of the Southern Women's Amateur and was 10th
in the Golf Capital of Tennessee Women's Open.
- Duvernay won the 2011 Yves Caillol Cup over the summer
shooting 219 (+3) and finished second in the Championnat de Leman.
- Chattanooga's women's golf team ranked as one of the
smartest in the nation last year, No. 13 among NCAA DI universities with a
3.649 cumulative grade point average. It
includes four returning NGCA Scholar All-Americans in Loza, Britt, Yushira
Budhram and Duvernay.
- The five Mocs come from different countries: Britt
(American), Duvernay (French), Weilguni (Austrian), Kryger (Danish) and Loza
(Colombian).
2011-12 BESTS
- Team Scores:
18 hole (293, Tar Heel Invite 3rd), 36 holes (604, Tar Heel Invite), 54 holes
(897, Tar Heel Invite).
- Individual
Scores: 18 hole (70, Jordan Britt thrice, Marion Duvernay), 36 holes (144,
Jordan Britt, JMU Eagle Landing Invite), 54 holes (220, Jordan Britt, JMU Eagle
Landing).
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