Wake Forest Athletics
Wake Forest Sends Six to Bryan Park National Collegiate
3/27/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
March 27, 2008
The No. 14 Wake Forest women's golf team will travel 45 minutes to Brown Summit, N.C. to co-host the 11th annual Bryan Park National Collegiate Friday through Sunday.
The Deacs will send freshmen Allie Bodemann and Natalie Sheary, juniors Jean Chua and Nannette Hill and senior Laura Crawford. Senior Jordan Craig will compete as an individual.
Sheary leads Wake with an average of 73.9 strokes per 18 holes. The Connecticut-native finished last week's Liz Murphey Collegiate in a tie for 33rd place.
Bodemann is coming off a 14th-place finish at the Liz Murphey and boasts a 75.6 stroke average per 18 holes.
The Deacs finished 13th in last year's Bryan National Collegiate with Hill, Crawford and Chua being the three returning players from one year ago. Hill finished tied for 18th after carding an 11-over 227. Crawford tied for 47th and Chua tied for 73rd.
Eighteen teams representing the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, Southern Conference and Mountain West will face-off at the Bryan.
Eight teams competing this weekend are ranked in the top 25 by Golfweek, including Duke (1), Florida (5), Auburn (11), Arkansas (12), Wake Forest (14), Tennessee (17), Michigan State (19) and Virginia (24).
College of Charleston, Florida State, Furman, UNC Greensboro, North Carolina, NC State, Penn State, South Carolina, Texas Christian and UNC Wilmington round out the field.
Duke has won the event six times since the tournament started in 1998.
Because the Champions Course is undergoing renovations in preparation for the 2010 USGA Men's Publinx Championship, the tournament will be held on the Bryan Park Players Course.
The Players Course recently renovated its greens and bunkers and should provide an excellent test for the field. The course, which opened in 1974, was originally designed by George Cobb and later modified by Champions Course architect Rees Jones.
The field will see the Players Course for just the second time since 1998. The last time the Players Course was used for the Bryan was in 1999 due to green renovations on the Champions Course.
The par-72, 6,319-yard course features 79 bunkers and eight ponds or lakes. The Greensboro News and Record Reader's Choice named the course "Tops in the Triad," while Washington Golf Monthly has listed the course as one of the Middle Atlantic's 100 Best Places to Play.
Wake Forest head coach Dianne Dailey will be participating in her 11th Bryan Park tournament.
"The staff at Bryan Park is phenomenal. They work so hard to make the tournament a success," Dailey said. "The course is very challenging and always in excellent condition. It is a worthy course to be played by the nation's top teams."
The Demon Deacons have enjoyed success in the event, winning the 2000 edition by five strokes over Indiana. Wake's Nuria Clau won individual honors in 2003.
Teams will tee-off at 10 a.m. in a shotgun start for every round of the event.
A 30 percent chance of rain and isolated thunderstorms has been projected for the Greensboro area for Friday's first round. Highs will be in the upper 70s, according to weather.com.
Live scoring for the event will be available at www.golfstat.com.
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