Deacs announce '08-09 schedule

Wake Forest women’s golf announces its 2008-09 schedule, which includes returns to seven tournaments from last season and the playing of the ACC Championship in Greensboro for the first time since 1999.

The Deacs, who finished 10th at the NCAA Championship in 2008, will open play Sept. 7-8 at the NCAA Fall Preview in Owings Mills, Md. Georgetown will host the event at the Caves Valley Golf Club, the site of the 2009 NCAA Championship.

Three weeks later, Wake will compete in the Mason Rudolph Championship in Franklin, Tenn., an event hosted by Vanderbilt. The Deacs return three golfers from last season’s team that competed in the 2007 Mason Rudolph. Senior Nannette Hill, junior Dolores White and sophomore Natalie Sheary each played the three-round event one year ago. White led the team in scoring and finished in a tie for 22nd place.

A quick turn around finds Wake at the 2008 Lady Tar Heel Invitational just one week after returning from Tennessee. The Deacs tied for fifth at the event in 2007 with Sheary’s even-par 216 leading the way as she tied for fifth overall. The Lady Tar Heel will take place Oct. 3-5 in Chapel Hill.

Wake will return to the site of its lone team victory of 2007 when the Deacs travel back to Wilmington, N.C. for the Landfall Tradition, Oct. 24-26. Wake took home team honors last fall in Wilmington and Hill won individual honors against a tough field.

The Deacs shot 14-over 878 for the three-day event to beat second-place Purdue by nine strokes and Hill posted a one-over 217 to take home the first of two individual medals by Demon Deacon golfers. Sophomore Allie Bodemann carded a three-over 219 to finish tied for fourth in 2007.

Wake will return to action in the spring of 2009 the same way it did one year ago, at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge in Palos Verdes, Calif. Sheary took individual honors last season and became the first freshman to do so since Marta Prieto won the ACC Championship in 1998. Ohio State will host the event Feb. 9-11.

Next, March 13-15, the Deacs will head to Baton Rouge, La. for the 2009 LSU/Cleveland Classic. Wake finished third in the event in 2008 and posted three top 25 finishes. Laura Crawford, who graduated from Wake Forest in May, finished tied for 11th. Hill and Jean Chua tied for 22nd last season.

After competing in the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic for the eighth time in program history the Deacs will return to Browns Summit, N.C. to host the 12th annual Bryan Park National Collegiate. Wake will co-host the event with UNC-Greensboro April 3-5.

The ACC Championship, which is being held in Greensboro for the first time since 1999, will follow, April 17-19. Teams will play the Sedgefield Country Club Course. The Grandover Country Club held the event in 1999.

NCAA Regionals will be held May 7-9. The sites for the 2009 regional tournaments are Gainesville, Fla. (East), Tempe, Ariz. (West), and Columbus, Ohio (Central). The 2009 host schools are the University of Florida, Arizona State University and Ohio State University.

The Deacs have qualified for 16 consecutive NCAA Regionals and three consecutive NCAA Championships.

The 2009 NCAA Championship will be held in Owings Mills, Md., May 19-22 and will be hosted by Georgetown University at Caves Valley Golf Club.