ATLANTA, Ga. – Oglethorpe head golf coach Jim Owen has released the fall and spring schedule for the Stormy Petrel women’s golf team. The schedule features four fall events and four spring tournaments that will challenge this young 2024-25 squad.
“Nine of the 12 team members are freshmen or sophomores,” Owen said. “Our three upperclassmen have gained plenty of experience the last few years, but we will probably be considered a youthful squad.”
The schedule features two September tournaments and two October tournaments this fall. The Petrels will open up the season in Memphis, Tennessee, at Mirimichi Golf Club in a 54-hole tournament Sept 16-17 hosted by Rhodes. A week later the team travels to Montgomery, Alabama, for the Huntingdon College Montgomery Country Club Classic September 22-23.
In October, the team will travel to the 24-team national event in Destin, Florida, at the Golfweek Invitational on October 13-15.
“It will be a good measuring stick for our program in a mid-October elite national field,” assistant coach Mark Random said.
The women wrap up the fall in Rome, Georgia, at the Berry College Chick-fil-A Classic at Stonebridge Golf Club at the end of the month.
The spring season kicks off in Statesboro, Georgia, at a new venue: the Georgia Southern University Golf Course.
The Petrels host the Jekyll Island Collegiate March 21-23, this year on St. Simons Island at the King and Prince Golf Course. This will be the 20th-annual women’s collegiate in the Golden Isles hosted by Oglethorpe.
In early April, the women return to Marine Base Camp Lejeune. Last year, the women earned the third-place trophy and then best finish of the season in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
The Southern Athletic Association Championships will return to Dickson, Tennessee, again April 24-27 to determine the SAA champion and earn the league’s automatic qualifier bid to the NCAA National Championships in Houston, Texas, in mid-May.
“We are looking to improve on our fourth-place finish last year in the SAA Championship, and our goal is to win our first conference championship this coming April,” commented Random.