Frogs head to the Tar Heel State
3/27/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
March 27, 2008
FORT WORTH, Texas -- The No. 27 TCU women's golf team returns to action Friday when it begins play at the Bryan Park National Collegiate in Brown Summit, N.C.
The Horned Frogs, with five top-10 finishes in seven tournaments this season, will be playing in their final event before the Mountain West Conference Championship (April 16-18).
The 18-team Bryan Park National Collegiate will feature eight squads in Golfstat's top 25, including No. 1 Duke, No. 5 Florida, No. 9 Arkansas, No. 11 Auburn, No. 15 Wake Forest, No. 18 Tennessee, No. 20 Michigan State and No. 23 Virginia. Rounding out the field are College of Charleston, Florida State, Furman, North Carolina, NC State, Penn State, South Carolina, UNC Greensboro and UNC Wilmington.
Duke has won the event six times since the tournament started in 1998.
The par-72, 6,319-yard Bryan Park Players Course features 79 bunkers and eight ponds or lakes. The Greensboro News and Record Reader's Choice named the course "Tops in the Triad," while Washington Golf Monthly listed it as one of the Middle Atlantic's 100 Best Places to Play.
TCU's five-player lineup includes junior Kelli Montigel, sophomore Valentine Derrey and freshmen Prisela Campbell, Allyson Ferguson and Melissa Loh.
Montigel, a Fort Worth native and Paschal High School graduate, will be playing in her first collegiate tournament.
Derrey is third in the Mountain West Conference with a team-best 74.6 stroke average. She is the only Frog to play in all seven tournaments this season. Derrey, from Paris, France, has six top-20 finishes, including four in the top 10.
Ferguson was the top Frog finisher at the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational, tying for seventh with her first career top-10 effort. The Houston native is second on the team with a 77.2 stroke average.
Campbell (Fort Worth) and Loh (Singapore) have marks of 78.1 and 79.0, respectively.
In its last trip to the Carolinas, back in October, TCU won the Lady Paladin Invitational in Greenville, S.C.
The Frogs are returning to play for the first time since March 19, when they tied for fifth at the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational in Austin.
Live scoring for the Bryan Park National Collegiate will be available at www.golfstat.com.
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