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Women's Golf Set to Play Pinehurst in Spring Opener
March 17, 2016 | Women's Golf
The Spring Training Intercollegiate will bring the women's golf teams from Princeton, Columbia, Harvard and local Sandhills Community College to Pinehurst No. 8 for the Tigers' first tournament of the spring season.
The three Ivies and Sandhills will play 18 holes each day Friday and Saturday. The Pinehurst Resort has nine golf courses, and No. 2 has hosted three U.S. Opens with another coming in 2024, plus the 2014 U.S. Women's Open, the 2008 U.S. Amateur and the PGA Championship (1936) and Ryder Cup (1951) in decades past.
Princeton will send Hana Ku, Jordan Lippetz, Alex Wong, Amber Wang and Tenley Shield to the tees beginning at 8:36 a.m. Friday on the par-72, 6,340-yard course. Tiana Lau, Sydney Kersten, Christine Kong and Amanda Brown will compete as individuals.
The Tigers are coming off a fall season which ended with a first-place finish at the Lehigh Invitational, two seconds at the Bucknell Invitational and the home Princeton Invitational, and a fifth in the Yale Invitational, the Tigers' largest field of the fall at 16 teams.
Wang, a freshman, led the Tigers at the Bucknell and Yale tournaments with sophomore Shield pacing the team at the home tournament and junior Ku closing the fall with medalist honors at Lehigh.
The Pinehurst tournament is one of four on the spring slate, which will continue with tournaments hosted by Georgetown and Brown in April before the Ivy League Championship goes to Stanwich Golf Club in Greenwich, Conn., April 22-24.