FORT MYERS, Fla. – After nearly three weeks since its last competition, the FGCU women’s golf team will head to the North Florida Collegiate in Jacksonville on Monday and Tuesday. The two day event will feature 36 holes on Monday and 18 on Tuesday at the Jacksonville Golf and Country Club (Par 72, 5926 yards).
Live scoring will be available through www.GolfStat.com. The Eagles will tee off on Monday starting at 8:30 AM.
This will be the third tournament of the spring for FGCU which finished second at the Mid-American Challenge and 16th at the Moon Golf Invitational.
Sophomore Sarah Edwards, who won the Mid-American Challenge, leads the Eagles with a 72.43 scoring average through seven rounds. Junior Laura Edmonds is just two strokes behind with a 74.43 average, while redshirt sophomore Haley Yerxa (75.00) and redshirt senior Ailsa Clark (75.57) have also posted top five finishes already. For Josephine Bertelsen this will be the junior’s first competition for the Eagles after transferring to FGCU from Western Texas College where she was a NJCAA Second-Team All-American.
FGCU Lineup
- Laura Edmonds (Buenos Aires, Argentina/Cypress Bay)
- Ailsa Clark(Navarre, Fla./Navarre)
- Sarah Edwards (Jay, Fla./Jay)
- Haley Yerxa (Ottawa, Ontario/Hillcrest)
- Josephine Bertelsen (Vejle, Denmark/Campus Vejle/Western Texas College)
UNF Collegiate Field (GolfStat.com Rankings):
#46 North Florida
#56 Mercer
#60 Sam Houston State
#70 South Alabama
#82 FGCU
#84 Western Kentucky
#85 Troy
#102 Xavier
#112 Chattanooga
#118 Georgia Southern
#129 Stetson
#132 Eastern Kentucky
#133 Murray State
#156 Delaware
#161 Cincinnati
#171 Jacksonville
Daytona State
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