The Bellarmine University women’s golf team will begin postseason play on April 17 as they travel to Dothan, Alabama for the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship at Dothan Country Club.
The event is scheduled from April 17 to April 19 and will feature three rounds of play. Tee times are set to begin at 9 a.m. Eastern Time each day. The par-71 course measures 6,256 yards with a course rating of 69.7 and a slope rating of 128, according to Bluegolf.com.
Twelve teams are participating in the championship: Austin Peay, Bellarmine, Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky University (EKU), Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU), Jacksonville, Lipscomb, North Alabama, North Florida, Queens, Stetson and West Georgia. Bellarmine’s starters include seniors Piper Davis and Rozlyn Rooke as well as sophomores Geriann Ackermann, Abigayle Buchanan and Raquel Nelson.
Ackermann, Davis, Buchanan and Nelson have played in all seven events this season for Bellarmine. Rooke leads the Knights with a scoring average of 77.2 while Ackermann holds the team’s lowest round score of the year with a 68 during the third round of the Butler Invitational. Ackermann also has recorded Bellarmine’s only top ten finish this season by placing ninth at that event.
GolfDigest.com describes Dothan Country Club as having undergone major renovations in 2023 led by architect Billy Fuller: “Dothan Country Club in south Alabama was built in 1960 by Hugh Moore… In 2023, architect Billy Fuller… completed a major renovation of the golf course that included the installation of new irrigation, drainage, turf…and the development of a sharpened bunker style that evokes the courses of the ’20s with strong top lines and grassed down faces.” The club has hosted notable amateur tournaments since its founding.
In their most recent outing at the Colonel Classic tournament earlier this month, Bellarmine finished eighth out of ten teams with Davis and Buchanan tying for twenty-fifth place individually. Last year at this conference championship event—then held at Hampton Cove’s Highlands Course—the Knights placed twelfth.
