Women's Golf Opens Play at the 2024 SEC Women’s Golf Championship Friday
4/11/2024 5:09:00 PM | Women's Golf
The Crimson Tide will compete in Belleair, Fla., at the Pelican Golf Club
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Alabama women's golf team is set to begin postseason play when it competes at the 2024 Southeastern Conference Women's Golf Championship this week. The event will take place Friday through Tuesday, April 12-16, in Belleaire, Fla., at the par 70, 6,150-yard Pelican Golf Club.
Freshman Kaitlyn Schroeder kicks off the championship for Alabama when she tees off in the first of three rounds of stroke play Friday morning on hole No. 11 at 8:40 a.m. CT. She is followed by Harriet Lockley (8:50 a.m.), Elina Sinz (9 a.m.) and Taylor Kehoe (9:10 a.m.) with Sarah Edwards (9:20) to anchor the Crimson Tide.
All 14 SEC schools will compete in a 54-hole, stroke-play format, which includes 18 holes Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Eight teams will advance to the match-play quarterfinals Monday morning, while four teams will improve to the match-play semifinals Monday afternoon. The final two teams will go head-to-head in the match-play finals on Tuesday.
THE LINEUP
- Sarah Edwards (72.41, +0.52) and Taylor Kehoe (73.04, +1.15) enter postseason play by leading the Crimson Tide in overall stroke average and average vs. par
- Elina Sinz enters the field ranking third on the team with a 73.11 stroke average and +1.22 average vs. par
- Edwards, Kehoe and Sinz each have earned starting spots in all nine tournaments of the regular season
- Earning a career-best T7th finish at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic, Harriet Lockley ranks fourth in overall stroke average (73.67) and average vs. par (+1.83)
- Kaitlyn Schroeder (74.33) rounds out Alabama's lineup in the event
TOURNAMENT PREVIEW
- The 2024 SEC Championship field welcomes a star-studded field with 13 teams ranked in the nation's top-40, including eight inside the top-20 with four inside the top-10
- No. 2 South Carolina leads the field with reigning SEC champion No. 4 LSU, No. 9 Arkansas, No. 10 Auburn, No. 13 Ole Miss, No. 15 Florida, No. 16 Texas A&M and No. 20 Vanderbilt rounding out the top 20
- No. 23 Georgia, No. 29 Mississippi State, No. 32 Kentucky, No. 34 Alabama, No. 40 Tennessee and No. 76 Missouri round out the 14-team field
- Alabama will tee off hole No. 11 Friday at 8:40 a.m. CT and is paired alongside Tennessee and Missouri
- The team championship will be awarded to the winners of match play, while the individual medalist and runner up will be awarded based on stroke play
- Live stats throughout the event can be found on Golfstat.com
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