Women's Golf Sun Belt Conference

Women's Golf Championship Heads back to Muscle Shoals

Championship Central | Round 1 Tee Times/Pairings | Live Video (starting at approx. 10:15 a.m. CT)
MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. - The Sun Belt Conference Women’s Golf Championship heads back to Muscle Shoals, Ala. and the Robert Trent Jones the Fighting Joe course for the first time since the 2013 season.

Competition for the title on the 6,200-yard, 54-hole tournament begins on Monday, April 17 and continues through Wednesday, April 19. Teams will tee off on split tees Monday morning at 8:00 a.m. (CT) with six teams starting on the No. 1 hole and four teams going off on the No. 10 tee.

Texas State is the reigning women's team champion as they took the 2016 title at the Raven in Sandestin with a team total 895 (+43). The Bobcats currently rank second in the Sun Belt behind league newcomer Coastal Carolina. The Chanticleers own a 298.92 scoring average which is tops in the league. Texas State is just behind Coastal at 300.08.

Troy, which claimed the 2014 and 2015 titles, ranks third in the league with a 301.00 average. Those three teams are all ranked in the top 100 of the NCAA for women's golf.

Coastal's Malene Krolboll Hansen, a junior from Taastrup, Denmark, leads the Sun Belt individually with a 72.46 scoring average over 24 rounds. She has competed in eight tournaments this season with one win and a low round of 66. She finished third at the Big South championship in 2016.

Troy's Fátima Fernández Cano ranks second in the league with a 73.52 scoring average. She has competed in 25 rounds this season. Cano is no stranger to the women's golf championship as she has finished in the top ten in each of her three years at the championship, claiming the individual title as a freshman in 2014.

Texas State's Maty Monzingo was last year's individual champion.

Live video from the 18th green will also be available starting at approximately 10:15 a.m. (CT). Groups 11-20 will be the first groupings through 18 and groups 1-10 will finish on the scenic 18th hole.

For more information on the 2017 Sun Belt Conference Women's Golf Championship, as well as live scoring and continuous updates, visit www.sunbeltsports.org. Be sure to also follow the Sun Belt Conference on twitter @SunBelt.