| 2018 Sun Belt Conference Championship |
| Dates |
Sunday, Apr. 15 - Tuesday, Apr. 17 |
| Format |
18 holes each day |
| Times |
6:30 a.m. CT tee time starts (1 & 10) |
| Location |
Sandestin, Fla. |
| Course |
Raven Golf Course |
| Teams (11) |
Little Rock, Appalachian State, Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, South Alabama, Texas State, Troy, ULM, UT Arlington |
| Scoring |
Golfstat.com |
| Tournament Central |
SunBeltSports.org |
Opening Tee
Little Rock closes out the 2017-18 schedule in Florida, competing in the 2018 Sun Belt Conference Championship at the Raven Golf Club in Sandestin, Florida Sunday, April 15 through Tuesday, April 17.
Tournament Information
The 2018 Sun Belt Conference Championship will be a 54-hole event, played over a span of three days at the Raven Golf Club in Sandestin, Florida, a par-72, 6,171-yard course on the Florida panhandle. Each team will play one round per day, beginning with tee time starts from holes 1 and 10 beginning at 6:30 a.m. CT each day. Live scoring will be available at GolfStat.com.
Tournament Field
All 11 Sun Belt schools that sponsor women's golf will be competing with first round seeding purposes based off the most recent GolfStat rankings. Little Rock currently ranks eighth with ranking of 178 and will be seeded with Georgia Southern (No. 153) and ULM (No. 189) in the opening round pairings. Coastal Carolina (No. 56) and Texas State (No. 93) both boast top-100 rankings heading into the championship with South Alabama (No. 106), Troy (No. 133) and Georgia State (No. 149) all among the top-150.
Trojan Lineup
Little Rock will head into the conference meet with the same five players it has utilized virtually all season, led by senior
Sabrina Bonanno and her 74.72 average and nine top-20 finishes. Junior
Emelie Blennow will get the nod at the number one spot following back-to-back top-10 finishes with junior
Lucy Owen moving up to the number three spot after just missing a top-20 finish at the Kansas City Intercollegiate.
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Trojans at the Sun Belt Championship
Little Rock will look to build off its strong showings over the past month as it heads to the conference tournament. Since 2006, the Trojans have finished in the top-10 in all but one season, highlighted by a fourth-place showing in 2012. This is the fourth-straight season the conference event has been held at Raven Golf Club, placing eighth in both 2015 and 2017 and sixth in 2016.
Last Time Out
The Trojans gained some momentum heading into the Sun Belt Conference Championship, posting its best team finish of the year in a fourth-place showing at the Kansas City Intercollegiate April 9 and 10. Shortened to 36 holes due to wintry weather, Little Rock posted a 40-over 616 for its third-straight top-five team finish. The Trojans were paced by
Emelie Blennow and
Sabrina Bonanno, who finished sixth and seventh, respectively, as Blennow registered her second-straight top-10 individual finish. Bonanno's top-10 showing was her fifth of the season and 11th of her Little Rock career as she has now posted a top-20 finish in 30 of her 40 career events as a Trojan.
Bonanno in the Record Books
Senior
Sabrina Bonanno will cap the regular season of her final year in Little Rock next week as she has established herself among the all-time greats of the Trojan golf program. Bonanno ranks third all-time in career scoring average at 75.70 as her 74.72 scoring average this season is seventh all-time. She is second all-time in career birdies (241), tied for second in career eagles (four) and fifth in career par or better rounds (13) and likely will move into third in program history in career rounds played after this weekend with 120.
Florida Bound
Little Rock returns to the Sunshine State to close out its 2017-18 season, one that has taken the Trojans across the country. Of the 11 events Little Rock will have played, the Trojans have competed in nine different states and four time zones, racking up over 14,000 miles in the process.
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