Alabama
SEC Women's Golf Championship
No. 22 Alabama Travels Up the Road to Birmingham for SEC Championships
4/16/2019 1:20:00 PM | Women's Golf
Crimson Tide begins championship play on Wednesday morning
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The No. 22-ranked Alabama women's golf team will begin postseason play at the 2019 Southeastern Conference Women's Golf Championships in Birmingham, Ala. The event will commence on Wednesday morning at Greystone Golf & Country Club's par 72, 6,274 Legacy Course.
The Crimson Tide will tee off at 8 a.m. CT on Wednesday and will be paired with Georgia and Tennessee in the first round. Admission is free for this year's tournament.
Now in its 39th year, the SEC Women's Golf Championships enters its second year using a combination of stroke and match play formats to determine its champion. The 14 SEC teams will play three rounds of stroke play on Wednesday through Friday. After those 54 holes, the SEC medalist will be crowned and the top-eight teams on the leaderboard will advance to a seeded match play bracket. The quarterfinals and semifinals will be contested on Saturday, and the championship match will be held on Sunday.
The Crimson Tide's starting five in Birmingham will remain the same as it has for the last two spring events and will feature juniors Jiwon Jeon and Kenzie Wright, sophomore Angelica Moresco, along with freshman Mary Mac Trammell and junior Anna Reid.
Jeon, who has skyrocketed into the watch list for the Annika Award this spring, headlines Alabama's lineup. The junior boasts a first-place victory at the Schooner Fall Classic and a pair of top-10 finishes in her eight tournaments. She was also a participant in the inaugural Augusta National Women's Amateur held earlier this month. Her per-round stroke average of 71.55 not only leads the team but also ranks among the league leaders.
Moresco is second on the team in stroke average (72.85) and average vs. par (+1.30) and has won four of her five match play contests this season. Meanwhile, Wright is third in stroke average (73.20) and has claimed five consecutive match play victories including three straight wins at last weekend's Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic.
The field for the SEC Championships is, as usual, stacked with many of the nation's top teams. Eleven of the league's 14 schools are featured among the top 50 in the nation, including six ranked in the top 25, according to the latest version of the Golfstat.com rankings. In addition to No. 22 Alabama, the other top-25 teams include: No. 5 Vanderbilt, No. 6 Arkansas, No. 9 Florida, No. 10 South Carolina and No. 14 Auburn. Ole Miss (No. 36), Georgia (No. 38), Tennessee (No. 41), Mississippi State (No. 46) and LSU (No. 50) are also ranked among the top teams in the nation.
Alabama has captured three SEC team titles – 2010, 2013 and 2016. The Tide won its first conference championship with a four-stroke victory at the NorthRiver Yacht Club in Tuscaloosa in 2010 before capturing the 2013 and 2016 crowns at the tournament's current site, Greystone Golf & Country Club in Birmingham. Along with the 2010, 2013 and 2016 victories, Alabama has finished runner-up in the SEC Championship on five occasions, including each of the last two seasons (1991, 1994, 2009, 2011, 2017 and 2018).
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