Wake Forest Athletics
Wake Forest Women's Golf Releases 2009-10 Schedule
8/10/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
Aug. 10, 2009
Complete 2009-10 Schedule
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - A trip to Japan for the Topy Cup highlights the 2009-10 Wake Forest women's golf schedule. The team will also make six return trips to tournaments from last season, including defending its titles at both the Lady Tar Heel and the Landfall Tradition.
The Demon Deacons will kickoff the season with a trip to Tanagura, Japan for the 2009 Topy Cup. Wake Forest and Arizona State will represent the US against four collegiate teams from Japan.
The team will arrive in Japan on Sunday, September 6, and will play a practice round at Tanagura Country Club on the Monday, Sept. 7. The tournament runs Tuesday through Thursday and the Deacs will then head to Tokyo immediately after the conclusion of play. The team will spend all day Friday in the capital city before returning home on Saturday.
The rest of the fall should be familiar to the Deacons as it mirrors the 2008 schedule.
Wake will travel to Chapel Hill on Oct. 9-11 for the Lady Tar Heel Invitational. The Deacs are very familiar with the tournament having played in the event 19 times in the last 21 seasons. Behind co-medalists Jean Chua and Natalie Sheary, Wake won the Lady Tar Heel last year by 16-shots over the hosts.
The Deacons will then head to Knoxville, Tenn., for the Mercedes Benz Collegiate Championship (Oct. 16-18) before wrapping up the fall at the Landfall Tradition. This year, Landfall Country Club is hosting the NCAA Championship at the end of May and the tournament on Oct. 23-25 will serve as the NCAA Preview. Wake won the Landfall each of the last two years with Nannette Hill talking medalist honors in 2007 and Dolores White winning the individual medal in 2008.
The spring portion of the schedule will open up on Feb. 8-10, at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge at the Palos Verde Golf Club in Palos Verdes, Calif. The Deacons have had a fair amount of success recently out west as Natalie Sheary claimed medalist honors at the Northrop Grumman in 2008 and the team finished second last season behind a strong final round from White.
The only new tournament on the schedule is the Tiger/Wave Golf Classic at English Turn Golf Club in New Orleans, La., on March 12-14. LSU and Tulane will be co-hosts of the event.
The Deacs will then head to the Liz Murphey Classic on March 26-28 in Athens, Ga. The first two rounds of the event last year were washed out by rain and the tournament was shortened to just 18 holes.
A staple on Wake's schedule the last 12 years has been the Bryan National Collegiate and the Deacs will once again host the prestigious event on April 2-4, 2010. This year, the tournament will return to the Players Course at Bryan Park as the Champions Course prepares for the 2010 US Amateur Publinx.
The Deacons will then be in search of their second-straight ACC Championship on April 16-18, on the same course in which they won by 26-shots on last season, Sedgefield Country Club.
The NCAA Regionals are set for May 6-8 at one of three locations; Ironwood Country Club in Greenville, N.C., Stanford Golf Course in Stanford, Calif., and Otter Creek Golf Course in Bloomington, Ind.
The NCAA Championship will then be played on the Pete Dye Course at Landfall Country Club in Wilmington, N.C., on May 18-21.
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