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Pirate women move up in Golf World Coaches Poll

Pirate women move up in Golf World Coaches Poll
Posted: Mar 13, 2014

NEW YORK – The Southwestern University women's golf team moved up one spot to No. 14 in the latest Golf World /WGCA Division III College Coaches' Poll as the Pirates prepare for the 11th annual Women's Jekyll Island Collegiate.

The Pirates are one of two SCAC schools ranked in the top 25 as Trinity moved up in the polls to No. 15. Methodist, recipient of all 19 first-place votes, continued as the No. 1 team in the latest Golf World/WGCA Division III women's college coaches' poll.

Washington U. of St. Louis remained in the No. 2 spot with Williams, UT-Tyler and DePauw holding steady in the Nos. 3, 4 and 5 spots. One new team worked its way into the top 10: No. 10 Whitman.

Southwestern will face five of the top 10 from the final 2013 Golfstat Poll including current-No. 1 Methodist, No. 4 UT-Tyler, No. 7 Mary Hardin-Baylor, No. 8 Olivet and No. 9 Rhodes.

"The depth on the women's side of the island has grown appreciably each year over the last 10 years", tournament director Jim Owen of Oglethorpe commented. "Further, we have 18 of the 24 teams in the field ranked inside of the Top 50. If you finish top 10 or 12 at Jekyll you are likely a top 20 team nationally. I am proud of how this event has grown."

The field is loaded with great teams, and as one would expect, the tournament has tremendous individual player talent. A record 30 of the 50 nationally ranked players in the country will tee it up on the Indian Mound course. The women's event has always been a top national field, but with 20 of the best 30 players in the South Region attending this year, that makes this a significant in-region tournament as well.

This week we are going to break new ground in the live scoring arena nationally, with the help of the Jekyll Island Authority Marketing. We are going to have one player in each group enter the group's scores in the few seconds after the hole is completed.

"In the small college arena logistics, costs and personnel make it prohibitive in general, for events like ours to have live scoring. We enjoy the live scoring feature twice a year at best. Now through the innovative folks at Golfstat and the willingness of players and coaches in the small college sphere to buy into this we could be onto something", Owen stated.

In D1, in virtually all of their events, they have live scoring either every 3 holes or 6 holes. We are going to have updates every minute all day long and individual scorecards updating every single hole.

First round action from Jekyll Island, Ga., will get underway at 8 a.m. on Friday.