Golf resumes at UALR Women’s Golf Classic

By Katrina Murphy
Sports Editor

The Western Michigan University golf team will participate in the 2010 University of Arkansas-Little Rock Women’s Golf Classic on March 29-30.

This will be the first competitive round of golf for the Broncos in 22 days.

The 54-hole event will be held at the Diamante Country Club with 36 holes being played on Monday and the final 18 on Tuesday.

The event

This will be the second-straight year that the Broncos have participated in the Women’s Golf Classic and the Brown and Gold will look to unseed the host as champions in their own event.

UALR captured the title last season thanks to a tiebreaker based on the final round score of each team’s fifth golfer.

The course

The Diamante golf course is one of the most challenging, yet flexible courses ever built.  Because of its unique design, players feel as though they are playing on five separate courses built into one.

The course challenges both high and low handicappers with its five sets of tees, ranging in distance from 7,560 yards to 5,322 yards.

Golf Digest ranked Diamante as the No. 1 golf course in Arkansas in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000.  The magazine also ranked it as the 38^th most difficult course in the United States in 2009.

Private Clubs magazine named Diamante as a “Monster Course” in 2006 and also named it as one of the 10 Toughest ClubCorp Courses.

Finally, in 2006, the 17^th hole was voted as the Arkansas Democrat Gazette readers’ favorite par four hole in the entire state of Arkansas.

The field

WMU will be one of the 18 teams participating in this year’s field, in which in-state rival Eastern Michigan University will also be competing.

Five of the teams participating – No. 59 Oral Roberts University, No. 77 UALR, No. 88 Missouri State University, No. 91 Eastern Michigan University and No. 97 Middle Tennessee State University – rank in the Top 100 GolfStat.com rankings.

The Brown and Gold will look to overwrite their 20^th place finish in last year’s contest.

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