The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s golf program has established a standard of success in the postseason.
Since 2009 the program has finished first or second in every Southern Conference tournament. However, coach Colette Murray’s Mocs haven’t won since 2014, and they want that to change.
The 2017 tournament starts Sunday at the Country Club in Lexington, S.C. The Mocs enter the three-day, 54-hole event ranked third behind Furman and East Tennessee State but are approaching it with their usual expectations.
“We want to win the tournament this year as a team. We don’t want to come in second place,” junior Monica San Juan said. “We want to win every year. We want to do at least as good as we did last year, and we’re looking to improve that performance to win the SoCon championship.”
The Mocs finished second to Furman last season, 14 strokes behind the champions. They did have the individual medal winner in Megan Woods, who won in a five-hole playoff.