Horned Frogs To Open Spring Season In Puerto Rico
2/6/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
Feb. 6, 2009
FORT WORTH, Texas -- The 37th-ranked TCU women's golf team opens its spring season Sunday at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic.
The 54-hole tournament will be played at the par 72, 6,219-yard Coco Beach Golf Course in Rio Grande, P.R.
The Horned Frogs are playing in the Lady Puerto Rico Classic for the fifth consecutive spring. TCU tied for third at last year's event with a 23-over-par 887, just seven strokes behind champion Alabama.
Valentine Derrey was the top Frog finisher as she placed fifth with an even-par 216. In 2007, the Paris, France, native took medalist honors at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic in just her second collegiate tournament. Derrey became the first TCU freshman to win a tournament since current LPGA standout Angela Stanford captured the 1997 Texas A&M Monica Welsh Memorial.
Melissa Loh carded a career-low 72 in the final round of last year's Lady Puerto Rico Classic to tie for 15th individually.
In addition to the Frogs, this year's 17-team field includes Central Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa State, Kent State, Michigan, Minnesota, NC State, New Mexico, Northwestern, Oklahoma, Purdue, Tennessee, Texas Tech and Wisconsin.
Derrey and Loh will be in action this weekend, as is Prisela Campbell who also played in last year's Lady Puerto Rico Classic. Rounding out the TCU lineup are Allyson Ferguson and Brooke Beeler.
The Frogs posted top-10 results in their last three fall tournaments, including runner-up finishes at the Ron Moore Intercollegiate and Windy City Classic.
Beeler, a freshman from Butler, Ill., led TCU in the fall with a 73.3 stroke average. She and Ferguson were the only Frogs to play in all four tournaments.
Derrey, a 2008 All-American, has a 73.5 mark with Campbell at 74.2.
The Frogs' lineup includes one junior, three sophomores and a freshman.
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