Owls Open C-USA Women’s Golf Championships Thursday

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – The Florida Atlantic women's golf team is set to begin postseason play when it competes at the 2023 Conference USA Championship this week. The tournament will take place Thursday through Saturday, April 13-15 in nearby Palm Beach Gardens at the par 72, 6,102 yard Champion Course at the PGA National Resort.

Play will begin on the first hole at 10:27 a.m. Thursday morning. Blanka Decker will be the Owls' first to tee off. She'll be followed by Rosa Barnak (10:36), Olivia Bergner (10:45), Clemence Cadeac (10:54) and finally Letizia Bagnoli (10:54) in the anchor spot. The Owls will be paired with UAB and Middle Tennessee.

The nine-team, 45-player field will compete in a 54-hole, stroke play format. 18 holes will be played each day. The event is open to the public. Carts will be reserved for coaches and athletic trainers only.

The Lineup

Letizia Bagnoli will enter this week as the defending champion after running away from the field for a seven-shot victory in 2022.
The native of Florence, Italy has a win and a runner-up in her four spring events this season.
After finishing runner-up at last season's Tallahassee Regional, Bagnoli became the first FAU women's golfer to qualify for the NCAA Division I National Championship in 2022.
Clemence Cadeac will be in the Owls' number two spot this week.
In first season in Boca Raton, Cadeac has been the Owls' most consistent performer – she's finished outside the Top 25 one time in nine events dating back to the fall.
Junior Olivia Bergner enters her third C-USA Championship. She tied for 26th last season and comes into this week with a 76.80 scoring average in 2022-23.
Rosa Barnak tied for 12th at the 2022 C-USA Championship. The fifth-year senior will be competing in this event for the fourth time.
Blanka Decker will be in the Owls' fifth spot. The German opened with 75 (+3) in last season's event before eventually finishing 46th.

Previewing the C-USA Championship

The Owls recorded a tie for third at last year's C-USA Championship, staged on the same course.
Bagnoli, the 2022 C-USA Women's Golfer of the Year, opened with a 70 (-2) last season in what turned out to be the lowest round of the tournament by three shots.
PGA National showed its teeth in last year's final round. The average score for the 59 players who completed the third day was 83.56 – nearly four shots higher than the first two rounds.
Florida Atlantic is No. 166 in the Golf Stat Team Rankings.
North Texas is the highest ranked team in the field at No. 35.
UNT's Audrey Tan is the highest individually ranked player in the field at No. 71.
This will be the final Conference USA Championship for Florida Atlantic women's golf before they make the move to the American Athletic Conference (AAC) in the fall.

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Letizia Bagnoli

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