Women's golf set to open season
MSU joins a field of Auburn, Coastal Carolina, Florida State, Kentucky, North Texas, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M, Tulane and UT-San Antonio at the “Mo” Morial Invitational, hosted by Texas A&M.
MSU joins a field of Auburn, Coastal Carolina, Florida State, Kentucky, North Texas, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M, Tulane and UT-San Antonio at the “Mo” Morial Invitational, hosted by Texas A&M.
The MSU men’s golf team stumbled out of the gates this season, finishing second in the 2011 Fossum Invitational at Forest Akers West Golf Course this weekend.
The Spartans men’s golf team hosts the Fossum Invitational on Sept. 3-4 at Forest Akers West Golf Course. First-year coach Casey Lubahn will make his coaching debut for MSU this weekend and will begin to try to improve his team from last season.
After a strong showing at Washington County Golf Course in Hartford, Wis., MSU sophomore Allyssa Ferrell has qualified for the 2011 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship.
Recording the best place finish ever by a Spartan at the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship, MSU women’s golfer sophomore Caroline Powers tied for sixth with an even-par finish at 288 (70, 76, 96, 73). Her score also is the best 72-hole score earned by a Spartan at the championships, which ended Saturday in Bryan, Texas.
The MSU women’s golf team held off Purdue and claimed first place at the Big Ten Championships in Glencoe, Ill., Sunday to win their third conference championship since 2001.
The MSU men’s golf team finished 12th at the 17th annual Adams Cup of Newport on Tuesday at Newport National Golf Club in Newport, R.I.
he MSU men’s golf team finished first of 15 colleges in the Fossum Invitational on Sunday, the fourth consecutive year that MSU has won the title.
Former MSU golfer and All-American Ryan Brehm has decided to bring his talents back to East Lansing, only this time as an assistant coach for the men’s golf program.
Along with freshman Liz Nagel and senior Natalie Brehm, six other Spartans — senior Michelle Bowles, juniors Maddi Massa and Shannon Warner and incoming freshmen Lindsey McPherson and Christine Meier — qualified for match play in the 94th Michigan Women’s Amateur. MSU head coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll also is competing in the event.
During the summer, MSU students still in East Lansing have a variety of different opportunities presented to them than they might find throughout the regular school year. Lighter class loads and warmer temperatures give students more time to enjoy the outdoors, including East Lansing’s surrounding golf courses, which are in prime form.
Coming off a second-place finish at the Big Ten Championships last weekend, the No. 13 MSU women’s golf team found out Monday that it’ll be headed to Indiana for May 6-8’s NCAA regionals.
The MSU men’s golf team and Ferris State both posted scores of 879, resulting in a shared championship Sunday at Forest Akers West Golf Course. Both teams were 15-over to finish the 54-hole, seven-team tournament.
After placing 10th among 12 teams at last weekend’s Western Intercollegiate, the MSU men’s golf team will use this weekend’s event as a final tune-up before next weekend’s Big Ten Championships in Minneapolis and look to gain momentum at home.
Coming off two straight second-place finishes at the Big Ten Championships, the No. 13 MSU women’s golf team would love nothing more than to have a shot at winning this weekend’s championships in Madison, Wis.
After coming up shy in the final rounds in each of its last two tournament matches, the MSU men’s golf team is looking to maintain the intensity for the final round as it prepares for this weekend’s Western Intercollegiate.
The MSU women’s golf team hope to ride its success into this weekend’s Buckeye Invitational, the final tournament of the regular season and last tune-up before Big Ten Championships.
A shot at the Big Ten Championship, several key tournament finishes and an exciting end to one of the most successful seasons in school history are all on the line during the next three weeks for the No. 14 MSU women’s golf team.
The MSU men’s golf team announced two student-athletes signed National Letters of Intent for the 2010-11 season.
The MSU men’s golf team finished in eighth place at the 15-team UNCG Bridgestone Golf Collegiate in Greensboro, N.C., this weekend, shooting a 7-over score of 871.