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Moon Golf Invitational
This Week in Michigan Women's Golf: Moon Golf Invitational
2/15/2018 2:38:00 PM | Women's Golf
THIS WEEK
• Mon-Tue., Feb. 19-20 -- Moon Golf Invitational (Melbourne, Fla.)
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On the Tee: Moon Golf Invitational
After three months away from competition, the University of Michigan women's golf team is ready to swing back into action heading to Melbourne, Florida, for Louisville's Moon Golf Invitational, Monday and Tuesday (Feb. 19-20). The 54-hole event will feature a 13-team field playing at the Duran Golf Club. Over the two days the course is set up for a par 72 and 6,198 yards.
The Moon Golf Invitational Field
There will be 13 teams competing in the Landfall Tradition, including Augusta, Chattanooga, Furman, Kennesaw State, Louisville, Maryland, Memphis, Michigan, Old Dominion, Rutgers, South Florida, Southern Miss and Virginia Tech.
The Moon Golf Invitational Schedule
Saturday, Feb. 17 -- Travel Day
Sunday, Feb. 18 -- Practice Round, 9:50 a.m., 10:00 a.m. (tee times)
Monday, Feb. 19Â -- First Round (18), 8:30 a.m. (shotgun)
Monday, Feb. 19Â -- Second Round (18), continuous play following completion of first round
Tuesday, Feb. 20Â -- Final Round (18), 8:45 a.m. (shotgun)
The Michigan Lineup at Moon Golf Invitational
Michigan will travel all seven members with a starting five which includes junior Elodie Van Dievoet, senior Emily White, senior Kathy Lim, freshman Ashley Kim and senior Megan Kim. Sophomores Alisa Snyder and Hannah Ghelfi will travel and compete as individuals.
WOLVERINE BITES
• Michigan closed the fall season averaging 294.70 per team round, marking the third straight year U-M is on pace to set a school record and finish below 300 per round. Two seasons ago, Jan Dowling's Wolverines set the top mark with a 295.56 average and last season finished at 298.00 -- the only two seasons below 300 in U-M history.
• Coming off her breakout sophomore campaign, junior Elodie Van Dievoet led U-M during the four fall events with a 73.40 per-round average, including a season-low 69 (-3) twice -- at the first round of the Golfweek Conference Challenge and final round of the Ruth's Chris Invitational. She posted two top-15 finishes -- East & West Match Play Challenge (T-15th) and the Golfweek Challenge (T-11th). Last season, she set the U-M record with her 73.09 scoring average.
• Senior Emily White used her experience to start off her final campaign averaging a career-best pace of 73.70 per-round average, more than two shots better than any of her previous three seasons. She posted a season-best 69 (-3) in the second round of the East & West Match Play stroke play qualifier. Since midway through her sophomore season, she has not missed an event, starting 22 straight.
• Freshman Ashley Kim started all four fall events and has shown she belongs as she posted a 74.80 per-round early average. She posted a career-best 66 (-6) -- tying the second-lowest round in program history -- in the second round of the Ruth's Chris Invitational. Kim's bogey-free, six-birdie, 12-par round was just a single shot away from the record of 65 held by Grace Choi and Ashley Bauer.
• Interesting note about Ashley Kim's career 66 (-6) was that her older sister, and senior, Megan is the only other Wolverine in program history to card a 66 in an event. The elder Kim fired hers in the first round in the 2015 East & West Match Play stroke-play qualifier.
• Sophomore Hannah Ghelfi made her first career start at the fall finale (Landfall Tradition) and tied for 69th with a 153 total (77-76). She will play as an individual in this week's Moon Golf Invitational. Ghelfi won the 2017 Massachusetts's Women's Amateur Championship on Myopia Hunt Club defeating Angela Garvin, 2-up, and Ghelfi was named the Anne Marie Tobin Women's Golf Association of Massachusetts Player of the Year.
• Senior Megan Kim and freshman Ashley Kim are the fourth pair of sisters to play for the Maize and Blue. They join the Bauers (Ashley, Meghan and Shana), the Davises (Lindsay and Katelin) and the McCorkels (Tiffany and Tegan).
• During the season break, U-M coach Jan Dowling announced the signings of Sophia Trombetta (Independence, Ohio), Ashley Lau (Malaysia) and Jacqueline Young (Singapore) to National Letters of Intent during the early signing period. [ Release ]
• Also during the winter break, Jan Dowling was named an assistant coach for Team International competing at the 2018 Arnold Palmer Cup this summer at Evian Resort Golf Club in southeastern France. In a Ryder Cup-style tournament co-founded by Arnold Palmer and the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA), the event features the top university/college golfers, matching the United States against an International team. [ Release ]
INSIDE THE MAIZE AND BLUE
• Michigan has made back-to-back NCAA Regional appearances and advanced to the NCAA Finals the last two seasons. U-M had only one prior NCAA Finals appearance, in 2002, finishing 17th. The Wolverines tied for 18th in 2016 and followed with a tie for 16th in 2017.
• In just four seasons under coach Jan Dowling, U-M has posted two top-five finishes at the Big Ten Championships -- 2015 (5th) and 2017 (5th). Prior to Dowling's arrival, U-M had recorded just eight total top-five finishes at the conference tournament. In fact, Dowling's squad just missed a third top-five in 2016 when it finished sixth.
• Elodie Van Dievoet had a remarkable 2017 postseason for the Wolverines. After winning the Big Ten individual title, her dramatic 18-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole at the Columbus Regional helped send U-M to the NCAA Finals for a second straight season and gave her a top-10 individual finish (T-9th). In the finals, she recorded the highest individual finish for a Wolverine (T-4th), and paced U-M to its best finish at the championships (T-16th).
• Van Dievoet became the ninth Wolverine to earn All-Big Ten first team honors and gave U-M back-to-back seasons of first-team selections after former Wolverine and recent graduate Grace Choi (2014-17) earned the accolade in 2016. Throughout U-M's history, 13 total players have garnered All-Big Ten honors, with nine first-team accolades.
NEXT ON THE TEE
• Mon-Tue., March 5-6 -- Meadow Club Women's Intercollegiate (Fairfax, Calif.)
• Sun-Mon., March 18-20 -- Evans Derby Experience (Auburn, Ala.)
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