Alabama Women’s Golf Opens Spring Season at the Moon Golf Invitational

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Alabama women’s golf team is set to open its 2023 spring season this weekend at the three-day, 54-hole Moon Golf Invitational. The 17-team event will take place Sunday through Tuesday at the par 72, 6,400-yard Suntree Country Club in Melbourne, Fla.

The Crimson Tide will tee off in the event Sunday morning at 8:40 a.m. CT.

The Lineup

• The Tide’s starting five for the event will be Benedetta Moresco, Sarah Edwards, Kynadie Adams, Emilie Øverås and Taylor Kehoe
• Moresco, who concluded the fall campaign with a top-10 finish at the Landfall Tradition, leads the team in overall stroke average (72.60) and avg. vs. par (+0.60)
• Edwards enters the spring season after capturing two top-10 finishes in the Tide’s last three events of the fall season
• Adams also showed out last fall as the freshman led the team in eagles (2), and ranked second in overall stroke average (73.07) and avg. vs. par (+1.07)
• Øverås will compete in her second event of the 2022-23 campaign and her first event as part of UA’s starting five
• Kehoe, whose fifth-place finish at The Ally last fall was her season best, rounds out the Tide’s lineup

Tournament Preview

• The teams will compete in a five-count-four, stroke-play format
• The 17-team field features 13 teams ranked in the nation’s top 50, according to Golfstat.com
• The Crimson Tide, ranked No. 41 in the nation, will be joined by No. 8 Florida State, No. 9 LSU, No. 16 Auburn, No. 17 Vanderbilt, No. 22 UCF, No. 25 Arkansas, No. 27 Northwestern, No. 28 Florida, No. 32 Michigan, No. 38 Clemson, No. 43 Michigan State, No. 45 North Carolina
• Augusta, Louisville, Miami and Virginia Tech round out the field

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