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GREENWOOD, Ind. – Four Bridges Country Club and the town of Middletown, Ohio, will serve as the next location for the Great Midwest Athletic Conference Men’s & Women’s Golf Championships set to get underway.
After the G-MAC Track & Field Championships were wrapped up on the campus of Cedarville, the spring conference championship swing continues on the links Monday and Tuesday.
A total of 54 holes is scheduled to be played by the men and 36 holes will attempt to be completed by the women.
Tee-times for the men will start at 8 a.m. while the women are set to begin at 9:30 a.m. The second round of 18 holes on Monday for the men will approximately start around 12:30 p.m.
Teams will get their first look at the course on Sunday with a practice round on the par-72 layout. Yardage for the men ranges from 6,870 to 6,895 yards while the women will play a distance of 5,827 to 5,912 yards.
Alderson Broaddus, Cedarville, Davis & Elkins, Kentucky Wesleyan, Ohio Valley and Trevecca Nazarene, comprise the men’s field. The women’s side includes Alderson Broaddus, Kentucky Wesleyan, Ohio Valley, Trevecca Nazarene and Ursuline.
Admission and parking is free for the G-MAC Golf Championships. Carts for spectators are available for $12.50 at the clubhouse.
The 2015 edition marks the third conference golf tournament. Trevecca Nazarene is aiming for its third straight conference men’s and women’s crown.
2013 G-MAC women’s medalist Mikayla Dodson and 2014 individual winner Kaylon King, both now juniors from TNU, are back in the fold for the Trojans and head coach David Head, who joined the program around the calendar new year.
Dodson posted a G-MAC tourney record of back-to-back rounds of 77 in Old Hickory, Tenn. King won last year’s weather-shortened event in Maineville, Ohio, with an 82.
TNU sophomore Alexa Rippy, a two-time G-MAC Women’s Golf Athlete of the Month this season, also will be one of the featured players to watch.
Ursuline’s Eadoin Cronin is the most recent G-MAC Women’s Golf Athlete of the Month after placing second and third in a pair of spring events. The Arrows closed the gap on TNU in the team race, ultimately being edged out by just a six-shot margin.
The men’s individual race will be one to keep an eye on after two of last year’s top three placewinners -- Evan DeGrazia (D&E) and Luis Herrera (OVU) -- have moved on.
The title of top returners goes to Alderson Broaddus' James Jeffries and Kentucky Wesleyan senior Patrick Schirmer, who carded the tourney’s best round of even-par 72 in third-round play. The Panthers were 15 strokes off the pace set by the Trojans last year.
Trevecca Nazarene’s Logan Martin tied for fifth in the 2014 event in Cincinnati while one of Cedarville’s G-MAC Men’s Golf Athletes of the Month, Jacob Forsythe, was in the medalist hunt in 2013 while tying for third overall.
The G-MAC tournament record goes to Stephen Williams of Trevecca Nazarene in 2013 after his 69 (-3) set a pace for medalist honors.