Wake Forest Athletics
Women's Golf Heads To ACC Championship
4/13/2005 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
April 13, 2005
Winston-Salem, NC -
ACC Women's Golf Tournament Notes
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The Wake Forest women's golf team heads to Charlotte to participate in the 17th Atlantic Coast Conference Championship, April 15-17. The tournament tees off Friday morning at 8:00 a.m. at the 6,318 yard, par 72 Carmel Country Club Golf Course.
The Deacons own three ACC championships (1986, 1994, 1995) and have been the runner-up eight of the last nine years, including each of the last five. Wake Forest offered its best scores ever during the 2004 tournament, shooting a team score of 857. Christine Hallstrom carded the lowest individual tournament total in Deacon history. Her 213 earned her a tie for fifth place.
Wake Forest boasted the tournament champion in 1986 (Brenda Corrie), 1993 (Stephanie Neill Harner), 1995 (Laura Philo Diaz) and 1998 (Marta Prieto). In fact, four individual champions stands as the second most by any one school in the 16 year history of the championship.
Five Deacons travel to Charlotte this weekend, including senior Ashley Hoagland. The Palmetto, Fla., native did not play in the Deacons' last outing due to an injured back. Hoagland, the eighth ranked player in the country, will play in the number one spot for the Deacons, followed by Maggie Simons, Mandy Goins, Christine Hallstrom and Laura Crawford.
Hallstrom is one of only two Deacons to ever finish even during the weekend of the ACC Tournament. Three rounds of 71 in the 2004 championship kept the Swedish senior at par for the tournament and paced her to a fifth place tie and All-ACC honors. Hallstrom's 18-hole stroke average during ACC tournaments is 75.7, while 58.3 percent of her rounds have counted towards team scoring.
Hoagland averages 73.6 strokes per round and has never finished out of the top-10 during the conference championship. If she remains healthy and competes this weekend, she will be one of just ten Deacons to compete in the conference tournament all four years of their collegiate careers. All nine of her rounds have counted towards team scoring over the past three years and she averages just nine strokes off the tournament leader. Hoagland owns a share of the lowest Deacon single round total (68), which she carded in the final round of 2004. She finished tied for seventh and became the ninth Deacon to garner All-ACC honors in the programs history.
Goins, the only other Deacon on this year's traveling squad to have previously competed in the conference championship, carded a third round 68 last year to tie for 24th place overall. She owns a 75.7 tournament stroke average and has contributed 66.7 percent of her rounds.
Wake Forest will tee-off with Duke and North Carolina at 9:35 a.m. on Friday morning. Tee times will be between 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. on both Saturday and Sunday. Admission to the tournament is free. Live scoring will be available at Golfstat.com throughout the weekend and results and standings will be posted at WakeForestSports.com at the conclusion of each round.
