Texas Tech University Athletics
Women's Golf Aims for Big 12 Preview Title
June 21, 1999 | Women's Golf
October 2, 1998
AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas Tech University women's golf team will play in the Big 12 Conference Fall Preview on Saturday and Sunday at the Circle C Golf Club in Austin.
"It is always exciting to go head-to-head in the Big 12," Texas Tech director of golf Mitchell said. "Texas, Texas A&M and Oklahoma State are very good teams. All are nationally ranked. Any time we have a chance to knock off one of those schools we have to give it a good try."
Ninth-ranked Texas, No. 12 Texas A&M and No. 13 Oklahoma State are the favorites in the 54-hole tournament. The tournament begins at 8:00 a.m. Saturday at the par 72, 6,086-yard Circle C course. The Big 12 squads will play 36 holes on Saturday and 18 holes in Sunday's final round.
"This will be a real test for us," Mitchell said. "We do not have any experience at Circle C. Hopefully, we will learn a great deal from the practice round and be able to carry that into the tournament."
Texas Tech's five-player lineup will include senior Brooke Lowrance, juniors Jamie Vannoy and Heather Wrede, sophomore Priscillia Hunt and freshman Jennifer Newhouse. Texas Tech finished third in the opening Jeannine McHaney Memorial and struggled to a 14th-place finish last weekend at the Intercable/Dick McGuire Invitational.
"Brooke is coming off of a mediocre finish at the McGuire," Mitchell said. "But she has played extremely well as evidenced by her victory here in Lubbock in the McHaney Memorial. Jamie Vannoy is continuing to play solid golf. I look for her to be a serious factor this season."
Oklahoma State took the team title last year at the Country Club of Missouri, shooting a three-round total of 921 to beat Texas A&M by 11 strokes. Nebraska won the first Preview title in 1996 at Pebble Creek in College Station.
Texas' Jennifer Waterhouse and Oklahoma State's Maria Boden shared medalist honors a year ago. Baylor's Mary Coleman Hornsby won in a playoff in 1996.
