Spartans Conclude Fall Season at Landfall Tradition
10/22/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- The Michigan State women's golf team will look to build upon its strong showing at the Tar Heel Invitational with its final fall tournament, The Landfall Tradition, this weekend (Friday-Sunday, Oct. 23-25) in Wilmington, North Carolina.
The 18-team tournament is being held at the par 72, 6,157-yard Pete Dye Course at the Country Club of Landfall. In addition to host Michigan State and host UNCW, the field features Alabama, Clemson, Duke, Elon, Kentucky, North Carolina, N.C. State, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma State, Penn State, Purdue, South Carolina, UCF, Virginia and Wake Forest.
The elite field includes five of the last 10 NCAA champions and 13 teams inside the top 50 of the Golfstat rankings. Three teams -- UCF, Ohio State and Virginia -- won conference championships last year and six of the teams qualified for the NCAA finals. Overall, the talented field hails from 28 states and 28 countries, with 25 players who earned All-Conference recognition in 2014-15.
The Spartans posted their lowest team score (883) of the fall season at the Tar Heel Invitational earlier this month in Chapel Hill. MSU's final round of 291, also a season low, propelled the Green and White to a fourth-place finish in a field that featured 13 teams ranked in the Golfweek Top 50. MSU enters the weekend ranked 34th by Golfweek.
Sophomore Sarah Burnham, who finished runner-up at the Tar Heel Invitational with a career-low 213, leads the way for the Spartans in the Golfweek ratings at 36th. She was named the Minnesota Golf Association's Women's Player of the Year earlier this week for her showing during the summer season, which included wins at the Minnesota Women's State Match Play and the MWPGA Match Play Championships, and the Minnesota Women's State Amateur Four-Ball Championship.
Alison Knowles and Katie Sharp will begin the tournament in the No. 2 and No. 3 positions, respectively, while Gabby Yurik and Carolyn Markley round out the starting lineup for the Spartans.
MSU will tee off at 8:30 a.m. from hole No. 1 for Friday's first round, along with Clemson and Kentucky.
Live scoring of the entire tournament is available at golfstat.com.
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