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Briar's Creek Invitational
This Week in Michigan Women's Golf: Briar's Creek Invitational
3/12/2021 4:07:00 PM | Women's Golf
» Michigan heads to South Carolina to play in the College of Charleston's Briar's Creek Invitational.
» The Wolverines were scheduled to play in the 2020 Briar's Creek Invitational before the global coronavirus pandemic canceled the remainder of the spring season.
» Hailey Borja will head up the Wolverines' starting five after leading the Maize and Blue in the season opener.
» The Wolverines will travel early and take a practice day on Saturday at Bulls Bay Golf Club.
THIS WEEK
Mon-Tue., March 15-16 -- at Briar's Creek Invitational (Johns Island, S.C.)
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Next on the Tee: Briar's Creek Invitational
After getting back to tournament play in Florida, the University of Michigan women's golf team will head to South Carolina for the College of Charleston Briar's Creek Invitational, Monday and Tuesday (March 15-16). The two-day, 54-hole event at the Golf Club at Briar's Creek in Johns Creek, S.C., will feature an 18-team field. Scoring will be five players, count four low scores with the tournament set up for a par of 72 at 6,110 yards.
The Briar's Creek Invitational Field
There will be 18 teams competing in the Briar's Creek Invitational: Boston College, Campbell, College of Charleston, East Carolina, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Miami (Fla.), Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Ohio State, Old Dominion, Penn State and UCF.
The Briar's Creek Invitational Schedule
Friday, March 12 -- Travel Day
Saturday, March 13 -- Practice Day at Bulls Bay Golf Club
Sunday, March 14 -- Practice Round, 11:34 a.m.
Monday, March 15 -- First Round (18), 9 a.m. (shotgun start)
Monday, March 15 -- Second Round (18), continuous play after completion of first round
Tuesday, March 16 -- Final Round (18), 8 a.m. (tee times off Nos. 1 and 10)
The Briar's Creek Invitational Lineup
Michigan will travel five starters for the Briar's Creek Invitational -- sophomore Hailey Borja, freshman Monet Chun, junior Ashley Lau, senior Ashley Kim and sophomore Mikaela Schulz.
Wolverine Bites
• It was a year ago that the Wolverines were scheduled to play in the 2020 Briar's Creek Invitational before the global coronavirus pandemic canceled the remainder of the spring season.
• Michigan returned to tournament play after nearly a year away and posted a third-place finish at the Florida State Match Up (Feb. 26-28). The top-five finish was the third straight in the state of Florida after finishing third at the 2020 Florida Gators Invitational (March 7-8) and fourth at the 2020 Hurricane Invitational (March 2-3).
• After Hailey Borja paced the Maize and Blue at the opening Florida State Match Up, she will start in the No. 1 position for the Wolverines. In her season debut, she posted her third career top-10 finish, with her 222 (72-76-74) total placing her in a tie for ninth. She finished with 35 pars in 54 holes.
• In her collegiate debut, Monet Chun used a team-best nine birdies to post her first career top-15 individual finish at the Florida State Match Up. She tied for 12th with a 223 (75-74-74) total.
• Hailey Borja was named the Big Ten Golfer of the Week (Jan. 20) after tying her career low with a 69 (-3) as Michigan prepared for its tournament season with a 289-322 victory over Florida Gulf Coast during a training trip in Florida. She compiled four birdies and a match-best 13 pars, finishing as U-M's top golfer by four shots and posting the Wolverines' only sub-par round of the match.
• Before the cancellation of the spring/postseason, Ashley Kim was having a career year, leading U-M with a 72.67 scoring average -- more than a stroke and a half better than her prior best in 2018-19 (74.86). She posted 11 of her 21 rounds at or below par with a team-best seven sub-par tallies, including her season-low 68 (-2) in the final round of the Florida Gators Invitational (March 7-8) -- one of four sub-70 scores. A two-time Big Ten Golfer of the Week, she posted five top-20 individual finishes in her seven events, with three in the top five, including her first individual win at Miami's Hurricane Invitational (March 2-3). She carded four of the top five 54-hole tournament totals, with three sub-par tallies.
• It was quite a start to her U-M career for Hailey Borja a season ago. She posted nine rounds at par or better including three sub-par rounds. She posted a career-low 69 (-1) in the second round of the Florida Gators Invitational while adding a 70 (-2) in the final round of the IJGA Collegiate Invitational and a 71 (-1) in the first round of the Glass City Invitational -- her first collegiate round. She had three top-20 finishes, two top-10 and one top-five -- tying for fourth at the Glass City Invitational in her first career event. She was second on U-M with a 73.76 per round average.
• Ashley Kim (first team) and Hailey Borja (second team) were named All-Big Ten in 2019-20. It marked the fourth time in program history the Wolverines had multiple selections in the same season, while Borja became the first U-M freshman to be named all-conference. Overall, Kim and Borja become U-M's 14th and 15th all-conference selections. The pair combined to finish as the top Wolverine in five of the seven events, with Kim nabbing Michigan's top spot in the final four events of the season.
• Ashley Lau quietly went about her business in her second season in Ann Arbor. Last season she averaged 74.62 per round as she produced 18 of her 21 rounds at 76 or lower. She tied her career low with a 71 (+1) in the final round of the Florida Gators Invitational, which led to her career-low-tying 217 54-hole total. She averaged 223.86 per 54-hole event.
• Last year, seven of the nine Wolverines recorded a sub-par round tally. Mikaela Schulz and Ashley Kim owned the team's season low as Schulz posted a 68 (-4) in her first collegiate round at the Shirley Spork EMU Invitational, while Kim had a 68 (-2) in the final round of the Florida Gators Invitational. Overall, Kim led with seven sub-par rounds, while Sophia Trombetta, Hailey Borja and Anika Dy each had three.
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