Tournament: American Athletic Conference Championship
Schedule/Dates: April 17-19
Location: Brooksville, Fla.
Course: Southern Hills Plantation Club
Follow: Live scoring via Golfstat | Twitter @USFWGolf
TAMPA, FLA., April 15, 2023 – The USF women’s golf team will head up the road to Brooksville as USF is the host institution for the American Athletic Conference Championship. The Bulls head into the tournament following a season that saw multiple team and individual records broken.
The three-day 54- hole tournament begins Monday, April 17 and will be played on the par 72,
6,289-yard Southern Hills Plantation Club in Brooksville, FL.
Tee times will begin on April 17 between 8-8:34 a.m. (ET) off the first tee with No. 1 seed UCF and No. 2 seed SMU. Players from No. 3 seed Tulsa and No. 4 seed Houston will head out from 8:42-9:16 a.m., followed immediately by No. 5 seed USF and No. 6 seed Tulane at 9:25-9:59 a.m. No. 7 seed Memphis and No. 8 seed East Carolina are set to take the course between 10:07-10:41 a.m., and No. 9 seed Cincinnati and No. 10 seed Wichita State round out the entries with tee times from 10:50-11:24 a.m.
The field will be re-paired for both day two and day three based on the previous round’s scoring, with split tee times off numbers one and 10 awaiting the round three pairings.
UCF enters the tournament slotted 20th in the latest Golfstat team rankings from April 11 to pace the conference. SMU (28), Tulsa (36), Houston (37), South Florida (56), and Tulane (60) are also ranked in the team top 100.
The Bulls are coming into the tournament ranked #26 in the country in scoring average at 290.7 and are ranked #56 in the country according to Golfstat rankings. This season the Bulls have set school records for team par or better rounds with 13, team season birdies with 357, and individual par or better rounds with 55.
Leading the charge for the Bulls will be junior Melanie Green who enters play with a school record rank of #14 in the country with a scoring average of 71.76 and is the #40 ranked player in the country. Green holds the school record with 42 career rounds of par or better and is on pace for several school records.
The Bulls
Head coach Erika Brennan has announced the following lineup for USF:
- Melanie Green (Jr./Medina, N.Y)
- Alizee Vidal (Jr./Le Gosier, France)
- Leonor Medeiros (So./Palmela, Portugal)
- Lauren Heinlein (Gr./Ocala, Fla.)
5) Juliana Camargo (So./Bogota, Columbia)
Sub: Emma Kim (Fr./ Ulsan, South Korea)
Quoting Head Coach Erika Brennan
“We are ready to compete and look forward to playing in front of the home crowd. Southern Hills is a challenging course that will require us to stay patient and play percentage shots while being ready to capitalize when opportunities present themselves. This team believes deeply in one another, and they’ve had great focus heading into post-season so now it’s time to go out and execute.”
About USF Women’s Golf
The Bulls are in their sixth season under head coach Erika Brennan in 2022-23. USF is among the fastest rising programs in the country, as they climbed 75 spots in the national Golfstat rankings following Brennan’s first season in 2018-19 and have captured three tournament titles under Brennan, while setting numerous program scoring records under her leadership. Junior standout Melanie Green has been an all-conference performer in each of her first two seasons, reached the 2022 NCAA Regionals as an individual and competed in both the U.S. Women’s Open and U.S. Women’s Amateur championships.
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