Hokie ClubBLACKSBURG, Va. – The Virginia Tech women’s golf team will play its first round of intercollegiate competition on Sept. 20, 2015, in the opening round of the Lady Paladin Invitational, hosted by Furman University at the Furman University Golf Course in Greenville, South Carolina.
Head coach Carol Robertson has announced the fall portion of her schedule for the team’s inaugural season. Tech will play in four events this coming fall, including some of the top events nationally of the fall season.
Following the three-day tournament at Furman, the Hokies will compete in the Windy City Classic at the Westmoreland Country Club in suburban Chicago on Oct. 4-6, hosted by Northwestern University. Later in the month, on Oct. 18-20, the Hokies will play in the Cardinal Cup at the University of Louisville Golf Club and complete the fall season Oct. 25-27 at the Palmetto Intercollegiate at the Jack Nicklaus-designed Turtle Point Golf Club on Kiawah Island, South Carolina, hosted by the College of Charleston.
“The fall schedule is a great one to blow the doors wide open for Virginia Tech Women’s Golf,” Robertson said. “It is very demanding and will throw us directly into competition with the top teams in the country. To be the best, you have to play with the best, and this schedule achieves that concept.”
The Hokies will compete against top teams in these events, highlighted by the 15-team Windy City Classic, where the other 14 competing teams are all ranked among the top 51 teams in the nation, according to Golfstat.com. Among the teams competing in Chicago are 2014 national runner-up USC and fifth-place Arizona State.
The Hokies’ first two golfers, Amanda Hollandsworth and Allison Woodward, enrolled in the fall of 2014 and are redshirting this season. They will be joined by four Nov. 2014 signees, Elizabeth Bose, Nicolette Donovan, Anne Taylor Hough and Whitney Stevenson. The women’s golf program is the 22nd collegiate sport at Virginia Tech and will compete as a full member of the Atlantic Coast Conference beginning in the fall of 2015. The spring portion of the 2015-16 women’s golf schedule will be released at a later date.