POINT CLEAR, Ala. (4/14/24) – The Arkansas State women’s golf team will tee off Monday in the first round of the Sun Belt Conference Women’s Golf Championship at Lakewood Golf Club.

This is the first season the Sun Belt Women’s Golf Championship is contested at Lakewood. The 54-hole tournament features three rounds of stroke play on the par-72, 6,097-yard course. All rounds of competition begin at 8 a.m. in a split-tee format with seven teams teeing off No. 1 and six teams starting at No. 10. All three rounds will be broadcast live on ESPN+ with live results available at Golfstat.com.

Following 54 holes of stroke play, the top four teams will advance to match play on Thursday, April 18 with the No. 1 and No. 4 seed beginning at hole No. 1 and the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds teeing off at hole No. 10 at 7:30 a.m. The championship match will follow the conclusion of the semifinal matches.

A-State enters the championship as the No. 5 seed based off national rankings. Four Sun Belt Conference teams are ranked among the top 100 nationally according to the latest Scoreboard National Collegiate Golf Rankings: No. 54 Georgia Southern, No. 60 Texas State, No. 93 James Madison and No. 99 Coastal Carolina. A-State just outside the top 100 at No. 105.

The Red Wolves, ranked third among the 14 teams in stroke average this season at 294.2 will tee off beginning at 8:45 a.m. off the first tee. Elise Schultz ranks eighth in the league in stroke average at 72.94 and will occupy the No. 1 spot in the lineup with a tee time of 9:21 a.m. Ashley Kim, sporting a 73.80 stroke average is second in the lineup and will tee off at 9:12 a.m. Olivia Coit (74.33), Morgan Beaulieu (74.69) and Anne-Lea Lavoie (74.83) round out the lineup for the opening round.

The Lakewood Golf Club, a member of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, had its beginnings in 1944. Perry Maxwell, designer of the Tulsa Southern Hills Country Club, created Lakewood’s original Dogwood course in 1947, making it the first professional quality golf course in south Alabama. Lakewood Golf Club hosted the 1974, 1986 and 2021 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship.