Troy University Athletics
Sunday, April 15
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Sun Belt Championship
Women’s Golf Opens Sun Belt Title Defense Sunday
4/14/2018 4:28:00 PM | Golf (W)
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TROY, Alabama – The defending Sun Belt Conference champion Troy women's golf team opens its title defense Sunday as play opens in the Sun Belt Championship at the Raven Golf Course in Miramar Beach, Fla.; the Trojans have won three of the last four league titles.
The Trojans enter the 2018 Sun Belt Championship as the No. 4 seed and are arguably playing their best golf of the season. Troy finished sixth against a solid field at The Brickyard Collegiate earlier this week after winning the Mimosa Hills Intercollegiate 12 days ago.
"We couldn't have scripted it much better," head coach Randy Keck said. "A college golf season is a marathon and not a sprint, and where we're at right now at this point of the season is where every coach wants their team to be. We're in a great mindset right now and feel like we have a chance to win."
Many of the faces have changed for the Trojans from their Sun Belt title team last season as only Bianca Lohbauer and Lindsey Harrison have Sun Belt Championship experience.
"We will go in with a little swagger because of what we've done the last four weeks more than the last four years," Keck said. "However, we also know that because of those titles that we will have a target on our backs."
Lohbauer has taken over the stroke average lead for the first time since the opening weekend as she lowered her season total to 76.13 after back-to-back top-10 finishes to end the season. She tied for seventh in Troy's win at Mimosa Hills and followed with a tie for ninth at The Brickyard to lower her spring average to 74.67.
Sarah Harrison is not far behind with a 76.50 average for the season and is tied with Lohbauer for the team lead with a pair of rounds under par. Harrison, Lohbauer and Eva Fabricius-Bjerre are all tied with 91.7 percent (22-of-24) of their rounds counting towards the team card – Fabricius-Bjerre enters the week with a 76.79 stroke average.
Lindsey Harrison and Antonia Poate will fill out the remainder of the lineup for Keck. Harrison carries a 78.00 average into the Sun Belt Championship, while Poate has a 78.91 mark; Poate is playing her best golf of the year turning in Troy's second best card in each of the past two events.
"The key to what we do is playing loose and free," Keck said. "We don't play well when we are having to grind out holes. We need to have fun on the course and execute our very strategic plan on how to play the course."
The Field
Troy, Georgia State, Georgia Southern, Coastal Carolina, App State, Little Rock, UT Arlington, Texas State, South Alabama, Arkansas State, ULM
T-Time
Troy will be in the first wave off the first tee along with Georgia State and Arkansas State. Lindsey Harrison will tee off at 7:30 a.m. to open the Sun Belt Championship.
TROY, Alabama – The defending Sun Belt Conference champion Troy women's golf team opens its title defense Sunday as play opens in the Sun Belt Championship at the Raven Golf Course in Miramar Beach, Fla.; the Trojans have won three of the last four league titles.
The Trojans enter the 2018 Sun Belt Championship as the No. 4 seed and are arguably playing their best golf of the season. Troy finished sixth against a solid field at The Brickyard Collegiate earlier this week after winning the Mimosa Hills Intercollegiate 12 days ago.
"We couldn't have scripted it much better," head coach Randy Keck said. "A college golf season is a marathon and not a sprint, and where we're at right now at this point of the season is where every coach wants their team to be. We're in a great mindset right now and feel like we have a chance to win."
Many of the faces have changed for the Trojans from their Sun Belt title team last season as only Bianca Lohbauer and Lindsey Harrison have Sun Belt Championship experience.
"We will go in with a little swagger because of what we've done the last four weeks more than the last four years," Keck said. "However, we also know that because of those titles that we will have a target on our backs."
Lohbauer has taken over the stroke average lead for the first time since the opening weekend as she lowered her season total to 76.13 after back-to-back top-10 finishes to end the season. She tied for seventh in Troy's win at Mimosa Hills and followed with a tie for ninth at The Brickyard to lower her spring average to 74.67.
Sarah Harrison is not far behind with a 76.50 average for the season and is tied with Lohbauer for the team lead with a pair of rounds under par. Harrison, Lohbauer and Eva Fabricius-Bjerre are all tied with 91.7 percent (22-of-24) of their rounds counting towards the team card – Fabricius-Bjerre enters the week with a 76.79 stroke average.
Lindsey Harrison and Antonia Poate will fill out the remainder of the lineup for Keck. Harrison carries a 78.00 average into the Sun Belt Championship, while Poate has a 78.91 mark; Poate is playing her best golf of the year turning in Troy's second best card in each of the past two events.
"The key to what we do is playing loose and free," Keck said. "We don't play well when we are having to grind out holes. We need to have fun on the course and execute our very strategic plan on how to play the course."
The Field
Troy, Georgia State, Georgia Southern, Coastal Carolina, App State, Little Rock, UT Arlington, Texas State, South Alabama, Arkansas State, ULM
T-Time
Troy will be in the first wave off the first tee along with Georgia State and Arkansas State. Lindsey Harrison will tee off at 7:30 a.m. to open the Sun Belt Championship.
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