Women’s Golf Returns to Liz Murphey Fall Collegiate Classic

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The No. 9 Alabama women's golf team travels to Athens, Ga., for its final event of the fall portion of the schedule to compete in the Liz Murphey Fall Collegiate Classic at the University of Georgia Golf Course.

The Crimson Tide will tee off Friday at 7:30 a.m. CT from hole No. 1 with tournament host Georgia and Auburn. Live scoring will be available throughout the tournament at GolfStat.com.

About Alabama

The Crimson Tide finished their second tournament of the season in eighth place at The Ally, in a 15-team field hosted at the Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point, Miss.
UA returns the bulk of the 2019-20 team that finished runner-up in three consecutive tournaments last fall.

Conquering the Course

The field features 11 Southeastern Conference teams, all ranked in the top-40 by Golfweek, including eight squads in the top-15.
The three-day, 54-hole event will take place at UGA Golf Course, which will be playing 6,302 and par 72.
The Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic is one of the oldest sporting events in all of women's intercollegiate athletics, marking the Tide's 39th year competing at the event.
Alabama has won the Liz Murphey title in four of the last nine years, including when UA broke the tournament record with a 15-under par 849 in 2018.
LPGA Hall of Famers Beth Daniel, Betsy King and Julie Inkster have competed in the tournament.
The fall finale carries the same namesake as Georgia's annual spring tournament with the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic still set to be played in the spring.
UA was scheduled to play in the spring version of the tournament last season, before the COVID-19 pandemic canceled the rest of the season.

Leading the Lineup

The lineup this week will feature Polly Mack, Angelica Moresco, Emilie Øverås, Kenzie Wright and Michaela Morard.
Mack will tee off first for the Tide after earning consecutive top-20 finishes between the first two tournaments of the season. Mack has also recorded three out of six rounds at par or lower.
Wright ranks second in rounds played for the Crimson Tide at 53.
Øverås will return after leading the team with tied for 12th place finish at The Ally two weeks ago.
Moresco holds lowest round of 18 holes recorded amongst her teammates, with a score of 64 in the final round of the 2017 Mason Rudolph Championship.
The four returners from Alabama will be joined by Morard, who will be teeing off in her second collegiate event for the Crimson Tide.

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