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Women’s Golf Team Travels to Arizona 2/22/2004 NASHVILLE — With its off-season in the rear view mirror, Vanderbilt’s women’s golf team travels to the University of Arizona this weekend for the 2004 Wildcat Invitational, to be played Monday through Wednesday of next week. Coach Martha Freitag will take her usual quintet of seniors Sarah Jacobs and Courtney Wood, sophomore May Wood and freshmen Kristen Svicarovich and Chris Brady to the tournament. The Commodores join host Arizona, Arizona State, Cal, New Mexico State, North Texas, Northern Arizona, Ohio State, Pepperdine, San Diego State, Stanford, Tennessee, UCLA and UNLV. The tournament will be played over the 6,134 yard, par 72 Arizona National Golf Club. Pepperdine is the defending champion while Arizona’s Erica Blasberg, who won the 2003 Mason Rudolph Championship, is the defending medalist. The practice round will be played Sunday afternoon while play begins Monday morning. The Commodores ended the fall portion of their 2003-04 schedule ranked among the nation’s Top 15, won the championship at the Kentucky Wildcat Invitational and saw one of its prize freshmen earn co-medalist honors. Sarah Jacobs was the autumn season’s team leader, averaging 73.6 over 12 tournament rounds of play. Seven of her rounds were 72 or under and she ended the fall ranked fifteenth nationally by golfweek.com. “Sarah was our most consistent golfer,” Freitag says. “She has developed her game to become a threat to win every tournament we play. She is one of the best competitors in college golf.” Courtney Wood, the team’s other senior, won the LPGA’s Futures Qualifier Tournament last November. |
