Women's Golf Opens Play At Big South Championship Wednesday Afternoon

4/14/2021 8:59:00 AM

Rock Hill, S.C.— Winthrop women's golf earned the #5 seed for the Big South Conference Championship Apr. 14-17, which begins Wednesday afternoon.

Event: Big South Conference Championship
Dates: Apr. 14-17, 2021
Location: Ninety Six, S.C.
Course: The Patriot Golf Club at Grand Harbor
Format: 54-Hole Tournament stroke play (18 holes a day) | Top 4 stroke play compete in match play for title
Tee Times:
Stroke Play - Wednesday (12:30 – 2:15 p.m.) | Thursday (8 a.m. – 10:52 a.m.) | Friday (8 a.m. – 10:52 a.m.)
Match Play – semifinals (8 a.m.) | championship (1 p.m.)
Tournament Field (by seeding): Campbell, USC Upstate, High Point, Gardner-Webb, Winthrop, Radford, Longwood, UNC Asheville, Charleston Southern, Presbyterian College
Weather Forecast: Wednesday (partly cloudy, 87 degrees, SW 10-15mph) | Thursday (cloudy, 75 degrees, WNW 10-15mph) | Friday (mostly cloudy, 71 degrees, NW 5-10 mph) | Saturday (rain, 67 degrees, light & variable winds)
Live Stats: Golfstat.com

A GLANCE AT THE EAGLES

Valentine Savioz leads the team with a 77.50 scoring average and has two Top 10 finishes on the year as she competes in her first Big South Championship
Alexis Brindley and Sarah Funderburg are the only Eagles in the lineup with experience in the conference championship
Brindley competed in 2018, finishing T34 and Funderburg finished T32 in 2019
Funderburg has the second-lowest scoring average on the team at 78.14 and has one Top 10 finish in 2021
Teams will play a practice round Wednesday morning before tee times begin at 12:30 p.m.
Winthrop is seeded 5^th and will be paired with 4^th-seeded Gardner-Webb and 6^th seeded Radford and will begin teeing off at 1:35 p.m.
There was not a conference championship in 2020, so the last time the Eagles competed for a title was 2019 in which they finished 3rd