Oct. 8, 2011
SDSU Women's Golf Tournament Notes
The San Diego State women's golf team resumes its fall schedule a little closer to home, as the Aztecs compete in the inaugural 2011 Wyoming Cowgirl Desert Intercollegiate, Oct. 8-9, in Palm Desert, Calif.
The tournament features two rounds of golf on Saturday and the final 18 on Sunday (54 holes total). The shotgun start begins both days at 7:30 a.m. PT at the par-72, 6,144-yard The Classic Club.
SDSU will be one of 15 schools in the field, which also includes fellow Mountain West member and tournament host Wyoming. They will be joined by British Columbia, Cal State Northridge, Eastern Washington, Fresno State, Idaho State, Montana State, Northern Arizona, Northern Colorado, Portland State, Southern Utah, UC Riverside, USF and Weber State.
The Aztecs will be by far the highest rated team in Palm Desert, as they earned the No. 34 slot in the early golfstat.com rankings released earlier this week.
There will be no live scoring for this tournament, however, daily results will be posted on goaztecs.com.
Six Aztecs Headed To The Desert
First-year head coach Leslie Spalding will bring six Aztecs on the two and a half hour journey northeast, including all five who played in the team's 2011 fall opener in New Mexico.
The lineup will be altered just slightly with newcomer Tessa The (Los Altos, Calif.) slated for her SDSU debut. The Colorado transfer will take the spot of junior Alessia Knight (Bologna, Italy), who will instead compete as an individual.
Senior Malin Enarsson (Gothenburg, Sweden), juniors Gina Clark (Murrieta, Calif.) and Christine Wong (Richmond, B.C.) and freshman Amy Alston (Mission Viejo, Calif.) will all log their second consecutive tournaments.
For the first time since taking the position with the Aztecs this summer, Spalding will get to coach against her old school, Montana State, who is also in the 15-team field.