Monday, October 17
Savannah, Ga.
8 a.m.
Georgia Southern University
vs
The Southern
Abby Newton and the Eagles host The Southern at The Savannah Golf Club.
Photo by: AJ Henderson / Georgia Southern
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The three-day tournament starts Oct. 17.
Tournament Name: The Southern
Dates: Oct. 17-19
Host: Georgia Southern
Course: The Savannah Golf Club - Par 72, 6036 yards
Location: Savannah, Ga.
Format: 18 holes each day - tee times off 1 and 10 beginning at 8:30 a.m. Monday and Tuesday, 9 a.m. shotgun start Wednesday
Field: Augusta, Campbell, Georgia Southern, Jacksonville State, Incarnate Word, Kennesaw State, North Florida, Seminole State, Western Kentucky and Yale
Georgia Southern Lineup (scoring average)
Sarunchana Rattanasin (9 rds, 72.00)
Abby Newton (9 rds, 72.44)
Haley Yerxa (6 rds, 73.50)
Alex Stevenson (6 rds, 75.17)
Karlee Vardas (9 rds, 75.33)
Indys
Meiqi Gao (9 rds, 76.78)
Regina Plascencia (3 rds, 76.67)
Taylor Oberparleiter (3 rds, 76.67)
Georgia Southern hosts The Southern at The Savannah Golf Club in Savannah, Georgia, for the first time. The Eagles will host nine other teams for the three-day tournament, which starts Monday, Oct. 17.
It's the first time Georgia Southern has hosted a fall tournament and the first time the Eagles have hosted an event at The Savannah Golf Club. GS hosted a spring tournament, The Strutter, at Georgia Southern University Golf Course in 2019 and 2021. The Eagles won the event in 2019 and finished second in 2021.
The Eagles are coming off a tie for third place at the Edisto Island Invitational Tuesday at the Plantation Course at Edisto Island. Sarunchana Rattanasin tied for third, and Haley Yerxa took fifth. The Eagles tied with Lipscomb, three shots behind second-place College of Charleston and four back of Charleston Southern, which won the team title.
Keyed by a second-round 69, Rattanasin (E) shot 73-69-71=213 and finished three strokes behind the co-medalists. Yerxa's second-round 67 tied for the second-lowest score of the event, and the redshirt senior finished 1-over for the tournament, posting 75-67-72=214. Georgia Southern led the field in par-4 scoring and total pars and ranked third in par-3 scoring.
Newton makes her 23rd start in the lineup for the Eagles, while Rattanasin will be playing in the lineup for the 15th time. Karlee Vardas makes her fifth start in the lineup and Alex Stevenson makes her 11th career start. Yerxa, a transfer from FGCU, is in the lineup for the third straight event.
It's the final tournament of the fall for Georgia Southern, which opens the spring campaign at the FAU Paradise Invitational Feb. 6-7, at Osprey Point Golf Course in Boca Raton, Florida.
About the Course:
Players enjoy a 6,481-yard Donald Ross designed 18 hole championship golf course layout that boasts Par 72, which provides a challenge to golfers of all skill levels. Historic Civil War bunkers line fairways, moss draped oaks and unique water features give way to natural undulations of topography and give the course and a geography a feel that makes it both memorable and walkable. Most recently, famed course restoration architect, Gil Hanse has developed and implemented a grand restoration plan and restored the original Donald Ross designs back to life.
Dates: Oct. 17-19
Host: Georgia Southern
Course: The Savannah Golf Club - Par 72, 6036 yards
Location: Savannah, Ga.
Format: 18 holes each day - tee times off 1 and 10 beginning at 8:30 a.m. Monday and Tuesday, 9 a.m. shotgun start Wednesday
Field: Augusta, Campbell, Georgia Southern, Jacksonville State, Incarnate Word, Kennesaw State, North Florida, Seminole State, Western Kentucky and Yale
Georgia Southern Lineup (scoring average)
Sarunchana Rattanasin (9 rds, 72.00)
Abby Newton (9 rds, 72.44)
Haley Yerxa (6 rds, 73.50)
Alex Stevenson (6 rds, 75.17)
Karlee Vardas (9 rds, 75.33)
Indys
Meiqi Gao (9 rds, 76.78)
Regina Plascencia (3 rds, 76.67)
Taylor Oberparleiter (3 rds, 76.67)
Georgia Southern hosts The Southern at The Savannah Golf Club in Savannah, Georgia, for the first time. The Eagles will host nine other teams for the three-day tournament, which starts Monday, Oct. 17.
It's the first time Georgia Southern has hosted a fall tournament and the first time the Eagles have hosted an event at The Savannah Golf Club. GS hosted a spring tournament, The Strutter, at Georgia Southern University Golf Course in 2019 and 2021. The Eagles won the event in 2019 and finished second in 2021.
The Eagles are coming off a tie for third place at the Edisto Island Invitational Tuesday at the Plantation Course at Edisto Island. Sarunchana Rattanasin tied for third, and Haley Yerxa took fifth. The Eagles tied with Lipscomb, three shots behind second-place College of Charleston and four back of Charleston Southern, which won the team title.
Keyed by a second-round 69, Rattanasin (E) shot 73-69-71=213 and finished three strokes behind the co-medalists. Yerxa's second-round 67 tied for the second-lowest score of the event, and the redshirt senior finished 1-over for the tournament, posting 75-67-72=214. Georgia Southern led the field in par-4 scoring and total pars and ranked third in par-3 scoring.
Newton makes her 23rd start in the lineup for the Eagles, while Rattanasin will be playing in the lineup for the 15th time. Karlee Vardas makes her fifth start in the lineup and Alex Stevenson makes her 11th career start. Yerxa, a transfer from FGCU, is in the lineup for the third straight event.
It's the final tournament of the fall for Georgia Southern, which opens the spring campaign at the FAU Paradise Invitational Feb. 6-7, at Osprey Point Golf Course in Boca Raton, Florida.
About the Course:
Players enjoy a 6,481-yard Donald Ross designed 18 hole championship golf course layout that boasts Par 72, which provides a challenge to golfers of all skill levels. Historic Civil War bunkers line fairways, moss draped oaks and unique water features give way to natural undulations of topography and give the course and a geography a feel that makes it both memorable and walkable. Most recently, famed course restoration architect, Gil Hanse has developed and implemented a grand restoration plan and restored the original Donald Ross designs back to life.
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