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2024 SoCon Women’s Golf Championship Begins Sunday
The league’s nine teams set to compete for the championship title, NCAA automatic bid
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – The 2024 Southern Conference Women’s Golf Championship will be played Sunday, Monday and Tuesday at Moss Creek Golf Club in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. This year’s tournament will be played at the par-72, 6,036-yard Moss Creek South course.
This season’s tournament has a traditional format of one round a day over three days.
The league’s nine teams – The Citadel, ETSU, Furman, Mercer, UNC Greensboro, Samford, Chattanooga, Western Carolina and Wofford – will be competing for the SoCon tournament title and an automatic bid to the NCAA Regionals. The individual medalist will also earn an automatic regional qualification if she is not on the winning team.
Furman is the two-time defending champion after winning the 2022 SoCon Championship at Barefoot Landing Resort’s Dye Golf Course in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and claiming the SoCon title last season at the Moss Creek South course.
The Paladins, who have won seven of the last eight championships played, carded a 16-over-par 304 in last year’s final round to claim the team title by 19 strokes over runner-up Mercer. Furman’s Anna Morgan, the defending individual champion, fired a 2-under-par 214 to win the 2023 title by two strokes. The Spartanburg, South Carolina, native finished the regular-season with a league-leading 69.44 stroke average and is ranked 12th in the nation after notching six top-five finishes, including three wins on the year.
Furman freshman Audrey Ryu owns five top-20 finishes this season and is coming off her best performance of the year after finishing in a tie for fourth at the Clemson Invitational late last month. A native of Dublin, Ohio, Ryu is tied with Samford’s Gabi Nicastro for second in the league with a 72.30 stroke average. Nicastro has posted a pair of wins this year and has not finished lower than 10th in eight tournaments.
Chattanooga will be seeking its first title since 2014, which was the last of five straight championships for the program, with ETSU looking for its second championship in four years after claiming the 2021 crown. The Mocs’ Violeta Fernandez-Tagle (72.56) and Makenzie Cooper (72.85) are ranked fourth and fifth, respectively, in stroke average this season among SoCon golfers.
Paced by junior Mikayla Dubnik’s 73.46 stroke average, Mercer comes into the SoCon championship with the most team wins in the league with three, while Samford owns two wins and has not finished lower than seventh in a tournament this year. Western Carolina’s Brie Mapanao won the Terrier Intercollegiate and is tied with Dubnik with a 73.46 stroke average.
Furman enters this year’s tournament as the No. 62 team in the Clipppd rankings. Chattanooga (No. 79), Mercer (No. 84) and ETSU (No. 124) are the top four SoCon teams in the national rankings.
The Southern Conference Women’s Golf Championship was first conducted in 1994. Furman owns the most team titles with 20, including the first nine, while Chattanooga has won five titles, all consecutively from 2010-14. Western Carolina owns two team titles (2003 and 2007) and ETSU (2021) and former SoCon member College of Charleston (2006) boast one each.
The Paladins have produced a league-best 18 individual medalists, while Chattanooga has seven and UNCG and Western Carolina and former members App State and College of Charleston claim one each.
The tournament tees off with threesomes at 8:30 a.m. Sunday. Live stats can be found here.
This season’s tournament has a traditional format of one round a day over three days.
The league’s nine teams – The Citadel, ETSU, Furman, Mercer, UNC Greensboro, Samford, Chattanooga, Western Carolina and Wofford – will be competing for the SoCon tournament title and an automatic bid to the NCAA Regionals. The individual medalist will also earn an automatic regional qualification if she is not on the winning team.
Furman is the two-time defending champion after winning the 2022 SoCon Championship at Barefoot Landing Resort’s Dye Golf Course in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and claiming the SoCon title last season at the Moss Creek South course.
The Paladins, who have won seven of the last eight championships played, carded a 16-over-par 304 in last year’s final round to claim the team title by 19 strokes over runner-up Mercer. Furman’s Anna Morgan, the defending individual champion, fired a 2-under-par 214 to win the 2023 title by two strokes. The Spartanburg, South Carolina, native finished the regular-season with a league-leading 69.44 stroke average and is ranked 12th in the nation after notching six top-five finishes, including three wins on the year.
Furman freshman Audrey Ryu owns five top-20 finishes this season and is coming off her best performance of the year after finishing in a tie for fourth at the Clemson Invitational late last month. A native of Dublin, Ohio, Ryu is tied with Samford’s Gabi Nicastro for second in the league with a 72.30 stroke average. Nicastro has posted a pair of wins this year and has not finished lower than 10th in eight tournaments.
Chattanooga will be seeking its first title since 2014, which was the last of five straight championships for the program, with ETSU looking for its second championship in four years after claiming the 2021 crown. The Mocs’ Violeta Fernandez-Tagle (72.56) and Makenzie Cooper (72.85) are ranked fourth and fifth, respectively, in stroke average this season among SoCon golfers.
Paced by junior Mikayla Dubnik’s 73.46 stroke average, Mercer comes into the SoCon championship with the most team wins in the league with three, while Samford owns two wins and has not finished lower than seventh in a tournament this year. Western Carolina’s Brie Mapanao won the Terrier Intercollegiate and is tied with Dubnik with a 73.46 stroke average.
Furman enters this year’s tournament as the No. 62 team in the Clipppd rankings. Chattanooga (No. 79), Mercer (No. 84) and ETSU (No. 124) are the top four SoCon teams in the national rankings.
The Southern Conference Women’s Golf Championship was first conducted in 1994. Furman owns the most team titles with 20, including the first nine, while Chattanooga has won five titles, all consecutively from 2010-14. Western Carolina owns two team titles (2003 and 2007) and ETSU (2021) and former SoCon member College of Charleston (2006) boast one each.
The Paladins have produced a league-best 18 individual medalists, while Chattanooga has seven and UNCG and Western Carolina and former members App State and College of Charleston claim one each.
The tournament tees off with threesomes at 8:30 a.m. Sunday. Live stats can be found here.