The College of Charleston women’s golf team enters this week’s 18th Annual Mercedes-Benz Collegiate Championship with some confidence after claiming its fifth tournament victory within the last calendar year.
This will be the second-straight fall the Cougars will have been invited to one of women’s college golf’s premier events hosted by the University of Tennessee on Oct. 17-19 at the par-71, 5,870-yard Cherokee Country Club in Knoxville, Tenn.
College of Charleston and host UT will be joined by Chattanooga, Denver, Eastern Kentucky, ETSU, Furman, Kent State, Louisville, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Notre Dame, Penn State, South Carolina, UCF and Wisconsin. Charleston is one of 10 schools that qualified for NCAA Regionals a year ago in the competitive 17-team field.
Looking to improve on last year’s 11th-place finish at the tournament will be the starting lineup of sophomore Laura Fuenfstueck (Langen, Germany), junior Louise Olsson (Uddeholm, Sweden), junior Mary Chandler Bryan (Chapin, S.C.), senior C.C. Buford (San Antonio, Texas) and junior Morgan Webber (Moore, S.C.).
“This is definitely one of the major events on our schedule,” said CofC Head Coach Jamie Futrell, who picked up his 20th career victory with the team’s win at the CSU Wendy’s Invitational on Oct. 7. “The Mercedes-Benz Collegiate Championship always has a great field and we will have to be at our best to be successful this week.”
Opening-round play will begin on Friday at 9 a.m. (ET) with the second round on Saturday teeing off at 9 a.m. (ET) and the final round on Sunday at 8:30 a.m. (ET). Live tournament scoring will be available at: www.Golfstat.com.
