The Alabama women’s golf team will compete in the NCAA Fall Preview played at Legends Golf Club in Franklin, Tenn., the same golf course that the national championship will be held on in the spring.
Coming off of a tie for seventh place in the Cougar Classic in Charleston, S.C., the Crimson Tide still holds its number three national ranking.
“I was expecting a better result, and I felt like we could have finished higher,” head coach Mic Potter said. “We didn’t play poorly, we just couldn’t get any momentum going where we could start making birdies and keep making them — its always a little bit of a battle. And you have tournaments like that. Phil Mickelson and Rory McElroy and Tiger Woods don’t have good weeks every week, so it wasn’t anything that would cause great concern, but we’d like to win every time we go out there.”
This weekend acts as a preview to both the national championship as well as the remainder of the season. The Tide gets to test out the course that will play host to the national championship in the spring.
“Number one, it’s an opportunity to play that golf course under competitive circumstances,” Potter said. “Number two, the best teams will be there, so you get an opportunity to measure yourself against them.”
The Tide is looking for constant improvement. The team never settles for anything but their best.
“It’s a lot different from last year,” said Stephanie Meadow, a sophomore and first-team All-American. “Last year, we won our first tournament, so we didn’t really see a huge need for improvement. But now we’re kind of working from the opposite way, and we’re hoping to just build every time and get ready for the finals in the spring.”
Jennifer Kirby, who is also a first-team All-American, is looking forward to future tournaments as well.
“We want to place a little bit better this weekend, but I think last tournament, we were just sort of finding where we were at that point, so this past week we’ve made more adjustments,” Kirby said. “Hopefully it should be a little better, because everyone sort of pin-pointed what they needed to work on the most.”
