Oct. 24, 2015 WACO, Texas ÃÆ' ¢Ãƒ ¢' ¬" The Baylor women's golf team is headed to San Antonio, Texas, to play in the seventh-annual Alamo Invitational. The three-day, 54-hole tournament will be played Sunday through Tuesday on the par-72, 6,428-yard Briggs Ranch Golf Club course.
Baylor, which is ranked No. 67 in the latest GolfStat rankings, has played the Alamo Invitational every year since the inaugural event in 2009. BU's best finish came in 2011, when the Bears took second place in a 14-team field. Baylor tied for seventh place in 2009, finished seventh in 2010, took fifth in 2012, finished 13th in 2013 and placed sixth in 2014.
Baylor is coming off a 15th-place finish at the Tar Heel Invitational, and this event will be the final tune-up before heading to the inaugural East Lake Cup, a match play event featuring the final four teams from last year's NCAA Championship.
The Bears' lineup features Laura Lonardi, Giovana Maymon, Maggie Beth Byers, Natalia Perez and Louise Gateau-Chovelon. Due to heavy rain, the first round has been changed to a 1 p.m. CT shotgun start. Lonardi and Maymon will begin from the 16th tee, Byers from the 17th tee and Perez and Gateau-Chovelon from the 18th tee. The Bears are paired with players from Texas Tech and Houston.
Saturday's practice round was cancelled due to wet course conditions. Monday's second round remains slated for tee times beginning at 8:30 a.m., and Tuesday's final round is an 8:45 a.m. shotgun start.
The 15-team field includes tournament-host UTSA, Baylor, No. 3 Arkansas, No. 11 Texas A&M, No. 16 Florida, No. 29 Texas Tech, No. 35 LSU, No. 36 Houston, No. 44 SMU, Mississippi State, Oklahoma, TCU, Texas State, Tulane and Wisconsin.
Live scoring throughout the tournament is available at www.birdiefire.com. Follow the team on Twitter, @BaylorWGolf, for updates throughout the season.