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The William and Mary women's golf team will make a run for its first-ever NCAA Tournament berth in 2012-13 over the course of an eight-tournament regular season, including four events both in the fall and the spring. Tribe Director of Golf Jay Albaugh has his 10th team traveling as far afield as Blanco, Texas, and Killarney, Ireland, as he looks to return the Tribe to national prominence for the first time since the early 1980s.
The season begins soon after classes start, with the Tignanelli Towson Invitational on Sunday and Monday, Sept. 9-10. Last fall, the Tribe finished second in the tournament held at the Towson Golf & Country Club. After a two-week break, the College will head to University Park, Pa., for the Nittany Lion Intercollegiate. W&M has traditionally done very well at Penn State's tournament, including a title-winning turn in 2008-09 that set school records for the best-ever scores for a round (individual and team), two rounds (individual and team), and three rounds (team).
October will include two trips to a city named Greenville, one in North Carolina and the other in South Carolina. On Oct. 8-9, the Tribe will head to Greenville, N.C., for the Lady Pirate Intercollegiate. East Carolina is hosting the two-day event at the Greenville Country Club. Ten days later, the final tournament before the winter break will be the Lady Paladin Intercollegiate in Greenville, S.C. The tournament will be held at the Furman University Golf Club and run from Friday-Sunday, Oct. 19-21.
The Tribe's spring season begins in mid-February with a trip out west to Blanco, Texas, for the Jim West Challenge. The Vaaler Creek Golf Club will play host to the two-day tournament on Feb. 17-18, which marks the first western trip for W&M in several years. The Tribe will follow its western-most trip with its eastern-most, with a 10-day trip to Killarney, Ireland, taking place over Spring Break. Over the course of the week, Tribe golfers and families will play five rounds at some of the Emerald Isle's greatest courses, including Dooks Golf Club, the Waterville Golf Links, the Tralee Golf Club, and two rounds at the Ballbunion Golf Club.
Returning from the Irish sojourn, the Tribe gets down to preparing for championships in earnest, hosting the C&F Bank Intercollegiate March 17-19. The 25th edition of W&M's spring tournament will be held at Kingsmill's famed River Course for the second year in a row, after the 2012 tournament saw numerous scoring records broken and two aces sunk including one by the Tribe's Kristen Hamel '12. Two weeks later, the College will head down to Pinehurst, N.C., for the Pinehurst Challenge. Held over the first two days of April, the tournament will take place on the No. 6 course in one of golf's most famed locations.
The regular season concludes Friday-Sunday, April 19-21, when the Tribe takes aim at its first Colonial Athletic Association Championship. The conference tournament will be hosted by the St. James Plantation Golf Club in Southport, N.C. The individual and team champions will each earn bids to the NCAA Regional, with further at-large bids handed out on the basis of the entire season's body of work. There will be three regional tournaments held May 9-11, with the top finishers from each advancing to the national tournament. The University of Georgia will host the NCAA Championships this year, with four rounds of stroke play taking place May 21-24.
The season begins soon after classes start, with the Tignanelli Towson Invitational on Sunday and Monday, Sept. 9-10. Last fall, the Tribe finished second in the tournament held at the Towson Golf & Country Club. After a two-week break, the College will head to University Park, Pa., for the Nittany Lion Intercollegiate. W&M has traditionally done very well at Penn State's tournament, including a title-winning turn in 2008-09 that set school records for the best-ever scores for a round (individual and team), two rounds (individual and team), and three rounds (team).
October will include two trips to a city named Greenville, one in North Carolina and the other in South Carolina. On Oct. 8-9, the Tribe will head to Greenville, N.C., for the Lady Pirate Intercollegiate. East Carolina is hosting the two-day event at the Greenville Country Club. Ten days later, the final tournament before the winter break will be the Lady Paladin Intercollegiate in Greenville, S.C. The tournament will be held at the Furman University Golf Club and run from Friday-Sunday, Oct. 19-21.
The Tribe's spring season begins in mid-February with a trip out west to Blanco, Texas, for the Jim West Challenge. The Vaaler Creek Golf Club will play host to the two-day tournament on Feb. 17-18, which marks the first western trip for W&M in several years. The Tribe will follow its western-most trip with its eastern-most, with a 10-day trip to Killarney, Ireland, taking place over Spring Break. Over the course of the week, Tribe golfers and families will play five rounds at some of the Emerald Isle's greatest courses, including Dooks Golf Club, the Waterville Golf Links, the Tralee Golf Club, and two rounds at the Ballbunion Golf Club.
Returning from the Irish sojourn, the Tribe gets down to preparing for championships in earnest, hosting the C&F Bank Intercollegiate March 17-19. The 25th edition of W&M's spring tournament will be held at Kingsmill's famed River Course for the second year in a row, after the 2012 tournament saw numerous scoring records broken and two aces sunk including one by the Tribe's Kristen Hamel '12. Two weeks later, the College will head down to Pinehurst, N.C., for the Pinehurst Challenge. Held over the first two days of April, the tournament will take place on the No. 6 course in one of golf's most famed locations.
The regular season concludes Friday-Sunday, April 19-21, when the Tribe takes aim at its first Colonial Athletic Association Championship. The conference tournament will be hosted by the St. James Plantation Golf Club in Southport, N.C. The individual and team champions will each earn bids to the NCAA Regional, with further at-large bids handed out on the basis of the entire season's body of work. There will be three regional tournaments held May 9-11, with the top finishers from each advancing to the national tournament. The University of Georgia will host the NCAA Championships this year, with four rounds of stroke play taking place May 21-24.
