STARKVILLE –The 11th-ranked Mississippi State women’s golf squad is set to return to the course for the Spring portion of its season on Sunday where they will tee off at the UCF Challenge. The three-day event will begin Sunday, Feb. 5th, and run through Tuesday.
Eagle Creek Golf Club Orlando will set the stage for the 54-hole stroke play event. Designed by world-renowned golf course architects Ron Garl and Howard Swan, Eagle Creek is an extraordinary 18-hole, 6379-yard, Par 72 championship course. This unique course is part of an elite group of designated “Audubon International Silver Signature” courses and features more than 60 white sand bunkers with water hazards walled with bulkheads, all nestled beneath a canopy of towering trees and foliage.
The 2023 edition of the UCF Challenge features a very talented 18-team field loaded with top-25 ranked teams as well as individual players all vying for the first win of 2023. The five teams ranked inside this week’s Golf Stat rankings include the eleventh-ranked Bulldogs who will be joined by No. 2 Wake Forest, No. 6 Texas A&M, No. 20 Kent State and No. 23 Iowa State. Host university UCF, Charleston, Kansas, Kentucky, Miami, Michigan State, North Florida, North Texas, Northwestern, Old Dominion, Penn State, UNC Greensboro, and Virginia Tech round out the field.
Individually, seven of the nation’s top 25 collegiate golfers reside in this tournament. Bulldog standout Julia Lopez Ramirez enters the UCF Challenge ranked 11th following a very strong fall season. No. 5 Rachel Kuehn (Wake Forest), No. 8 Tunrada Piddon (UCF), No. 12 Jennie Park (Texas A&M), No. 13 Karisa Chul-Ak-Sorn (Iowa State), No. 17 Carol Lopez Chacarra (Wake Forest), and No. 22 Emma Schimpf (Charleston) highlight some of the very best in women’s collegiate golf.
State will roll with the same lineup from the final tournament of the fall that featured the debut of freshman Surapa Janthamunee.
Senior Abbey Daniel will take the number one spot in her 28th career appearance. In the fall, Daniel began her senior season with a top-15 finish, carding 4-over (220) to finish tied for 13th at the Carmel Cup. In the 2022 Mason Rudolph Championship, Daniel used a very strong showing in the final rounds to secure her second top-10 finish of her career (tied for 10th with 4-over) to…
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