MONROE, La. – The ULM women's golf team, which has a pair of Top-10 finishes this season, returns to the course after a month-long hiatus this weekend to compete at the Little Rock Classic in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The Warhawks are one of 17 teams taking part in the three-day, three-round event, which will take place at the Diamante Country Club.
The Diamante Country Club is a par-72, 6,076-yard course located in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The course opened in 1995 and has a design that features panoramic rolling fairways and immaculately maintained bent grass greens along with newly renovated "Better Billy Bunkers."
Golf Digest ranked Diamante as the number one golf course in Arkansas from 1997 through 2000 and it is currently ranked #3 in the state. In 2006, hole No. 17 was voted as the Arkansas Democrat Gazette readers' favorite par four hole in the state of Arkansas.
A total of six Warhawks will be competing in the event, including
Jahaanvie Walia,
Sharmaine Rapisura,
Eva Bjornsdottir,
Shani White and
Angela Tocco, who will make up the ULM team. Freshman
Line Petersen will also travel to Arkansas, but will compete as an individual.
Walia has put together an impressive fall slate for the Warhawks, posting a third-place finish (South Alabama Intercollegiate) and fourth at the Wyoming Cowgirl Desert Intercollegiate. Her best two rounds of the 2019-20 season (69) came in the first and third rounds of the South Alabama Intercollegiate.
In the first two tournaments of her senior campaign, White has finished 35
th (South Alabama Intercollegiate) and 27
th (Wyoming Cowgirl Desert Intercollegiate), in succession. She carded a 74 in the first two rounds of the South Alabama Intercollegiate, before coming through with a 75 in the third round, marking her lowest scores of the early season.
Another Warhawk golfer that has taken part in each of the first two tournaments of the season is Bjornsdottir. She began her season with a three-round score of 229, which included her lowest score of the slate (75), at the South Alabama Intercollegiate. Two weeks later, on Sept. 28-29, she finished 40
th at the Wyoming Cowgirl Desert Intercollegiate after a 28-over-par score of 244.
Rapisura rebounded from a difficult showing at the South Alabama Intercollegiate to finish tied for 29
th at the Wyoming Cowgirl Desert Intercollegiate. It was in the Wyoming Cowgirl Desert Intercollegiate, which took place in Palm Desert, Calif., that the Warhawk junior had her lowest round of the season (75).
Tocco will return to the course for ULM after participating in the season opening South Alabama Intercollegiate. She posted an 18-over-par score of 234, following rounds of 82, 77 and 75 in her lone tournament of the slate.
Petersen will compete as an individual for the second time this season and first time since taking part in the South Alabama Intercollegiate. She capped off that event with a 14-over-par score of 230, recording her lowest round of the season (74) in the first round. Peterson's best finish (47
th) came at the end of September after a 34-over-par score of 250.
