Women’s Golf Continues Spring Play at Gamecock Intercollegiate

OXFORD, Miss. – The Ole Miss women's golf team will travel to Columbia, South Carolina, this week to compete in the Gamecock Intercollegiate, which will feature 11 teams currently ranked in the top 25 by Golfstat.

The three-day event, hosted by South Carolina, will be held at the Columbia Country Club and will begin Monday morning.

In total, 18 other women's NCAA Division I teams from the SEC, Big 12, ACC, Southern Conference and Conference USA will join Ole Miss in Columbia.

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE

Monday, March 1 – 18 holes (Rebels tee off at 8 a.m. CT)
Tuesday, March 2 – 18 holes
Wednesday, March 3 – 18 holes

THE LINEUP

Julia Johnson (Sr.)
-- Leads team and ranks third in SEC with 71.38 on the year
-- Ranked No. 17 individually in NCAA by Golfweek and No. 23 by Golfstat
-- Has registered back-to-back runner-up finishes (Heroes Ladies & Gators Invitational)
-- Set season low with a 67 (-3) during second round at Gators Invitational
-- Her 9-under, 207 in Sarasota tied for the third-lowest 54-hole score in program history
-- Been in lineup all 39 team tournaments since arriving on campus
-- Will participate in the 2021 Augusta National Women's Am

Andrea Lignell (So.)
-- 73.15 stroke average this season
-- Tallied a 15th place finish at both the Heroes Ladies Intercollegiate and the East Lake Cup
-- Posted her first top 10 finish of the season with eight place showing at Gators Invitational
-- Registered an 11th place finish in first tourney of the season at The Blessings Collegiate
-- Two top-10 and six top-20 finishes in 10 career tournaments
-- 2019-20 SEC All-Freshman Team

Kennedy Swann (Sr.)
-- On the ANNIKA Award watch list
-- Ranked fifth in SEC with 72.00 stroke average this season
-- Ranked No. 22 individually in NCAA by Golfweek and No. 29 by Golfstat
-- Earned second top-five finish of the season with a third place showing at Heroes Ladies
-- Registered co-medalist honors at the East Lake Cup to end fall season
-- Will participate in the 2021 Augusta National Women's Am
-- Finished fifth 2020 U.S. Women's Amateur

Chiara Tamburlini (So.)
-- 73.30 stroke average this season
-- Tied career-low with a 69 during the second round at Heroes Ladies Intercollegiate
-- Registered third top 10 finish with a seventh finish at the East Lake Cup
-- Finished 20th at Gators Invitational (73-73-72—218)
-- Tied for team-best round of 70 (-2) during final round at The Ally
-- Has registered two top-five finishes in eight career tournaments

Smilla Sonderby (Fr.)
-- Competing in second collegiate tournament
-- Arrived on campus at the start of the spring season
-- Member of the Danish Ladies' National Team since 2019
-- Competed in two European Girls' Team Championships and one European Nations' Cup
-- Member of the Danish team that placed third at the 2020 European Team Championships
-- Finished second in the 2019 Danish Match Play Championship.

THE FIELD

#20 Alabama
#16 Arkansas
#11 Auburn
#1 Baylor
Charlotte
#22 Duke
#8 Florida
#44 Furman
#13 Georgia
#41 Kentucky
#4 LSU
Mississippi State
North Carolina
#7 Ole Miss
#2 South Carolina
#34 Tennessee
Texas A&M
#32 Vanderbilt
#5 Wake Forest

THE COURSE

The course at Columbia Country Club plays as a par 72 at 6,398 yards. The club was voted as the 2020 Club of the Year by the South Carolina Golf association.

LAST TIME OUT

The Ole Miss women's golf team earned its second team title of the season with a three-day total of 856 (293-279-284) to take home co-champion honors at the Gators Invitational last week in Gainesville. The Rebels shared the team title with tournament host Florida. Ole Miss trailed the Gators by as many as six strokes with four holes remaining, but were able to pick up some key birdies down the stretch to catch Florida. Julia Johnson fired a final round 67 (-3) and finished at 2-under (72-69-67—208) to tally her second consecutive runner-up finish. Andrea Lignell also earned a top-10 finish for the Rebels (72-67-74—213). Lignell carded a final round 74 (+4) to tie for eighth place overall.

ONE-TWO PUNCH

Seniors Julia Johnson and Kennedy Swann have been a lethal one-two punch for the Rebels for the last two-and-a-half seasons. The dynamic duo leads the Rebels in stroke average this season (Johnson: 71.4, Swann: 72.0) and ranked No. 3 and 5 in the SEC respectively in average. They've combined to participate in 74 tournaments over their collegiate career. Both Johnson and Swann recently earned invitations to participate in the 2021 Augusta National Women's Amateur later in the spring.

REBELS RANKED TOP 10 IN BOTH POLLS

After earning co-champ honors at the Gators Invitational and a runner-up finish at the Heroes Ladies Intercollegiate to start the spring season, the Rebels are ranked No. 6 in the Golfweek/Sagarin College Rankings and No. 7 in the Golfstat Team Rankings.

BUILDING A POWERHOUSE

Kory Henkes took over the Ole Miss program in 2015 and has turned the Rebels into a top-tier program. Henkes has led the Rebels to two straight NCAA Championship berths and a No. 11 final ranking in the WGCA Coaches Poll last season. The Rebels were one of only two teams nationally to have four or more wins in 2019-20. Ole Miss also won its first SEC Championship in school history under Henke's guidance in 2019.

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Players Mentioned

Julia Johnson

Andrea Lignell

Smilla Sonderby

Kennedy Swann

Chiara Tamburlini

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