No. 4 Gamecocks Set to Compete at Liz Murphey Friday

ATHENS, Ga. — No. 4 South Carolina opens play at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic on Friday afternoon. It will be the Gamecocks final stroke play tournament of the spring.
 
It’s a loaded field with 11 teams ranked in the top-50 of the Golfstat Team Rankings, including seven inside the top-20.
 
Carolina will be paired with Louisville tomorrow and will be starting on the backside. Junior Justine Fournand will lead things off at 12:32 p.m. (ET). She’s joined in the lineup by junior Mathilde Claisse. freshman Louise Rydqvist, graduate transfer Tai Anudit and freshman Hannah Darling.
 
The Gamecocks have used the same five-player lineup all season, the order tweaked slightly at each event.
 
This will mark the 20^th all-time appearance for South Carolina at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic. The team won the event in 2019 (match play format) and 2021 on the heels of runner-up medalist honors by All-American Ana Pelaez.
 
2022 Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic Field
1. No. 12 Alabama
2. No. 17 Arkansas
3. College of Charleston
4. No. 31 Georgia
5. No. 31 Georgia (B)
6. Georgia Southern
7. Houston
8. No. 38 Louisville
9. Mercer
10. No. 30 Mississippi State
11. No. 22 Ole Miss
12. No. 4 South Carolina
13. No. 13 Southern Cal
14. No. 11 Texas
15. No. 3 Wake Forest
 
2022 Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic Gamecock Lineup
1. Hannah Darling
2. Tai Anudit
3. Louise Rydqvist
4. Mathilde Claisse
5. Justine Fournand
IND. Paula Kirner

*playing as an individual this week 
 
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