ATLANTA, Ga. — The Oglethorpe women’s golf team is set to host the 21st annual Jekyll Island Collegiate Invitational at a new venue this spring. The Indian Mound Course hosted this tournament for the first 20 years, but is currently undergoing renovations. The Stormy Petrels have moved this year’s home event to St. Simon’s King and Prince Resort.
Five of the Clippd Scoreboard top-10 ranked schools will be in attendance this year, including No. 1 Emory, No. 2 Carnegie Mellon, No. 4 Wellesley, No. 8 NYU and No. 10 Claremont Mudd-Scripps. Several top-20 teams will also be competing: No. 11 Amherst, No. 15 Randolph-Macon, No. 16 Washington & Lee, No. 18 Denison and No. 20 Christopher Newport.
Several top-25 and top-50 teams will also be in attendance, including conference member No. 25 Rhodes. The 24 competing teams hail from 13 different states. Combined with the men’s Jekyll tournament and the individual invitational, 308 players and over 80 teams will descend on the Golden Isles for the week. This will be one of the strongest fields for Division III women.
Host team No. 64 Oglethorpe will be led by senior Sophia Morettini along with juniors Elizabeth Powell and Grace Daech. The invitational will begin Friday, March 21, and run through Sunda, March 23.
The Jekyll Island Invitational will take place at King and Prince only temporarily, as Jekyll Island’s Great Dunes Course will reopen in October 2025. The competition will return to the historic course in 2026.