Justine Fournand

AWARDS/HONORS

• Landfall Tradition Champion (Oct. 29-31, 2021) – fifth career win and first at South Carolina
• 2021 C-USA Golfer of the Year ; 2021 First Team All-C-USA
• 2020 C-USA Freshman of the Year
• WGCA All-American Scholar (2022)
• SEC Academic Honor Roll (2022)

2021-22 (JUNIOR)

• Started all 11 stroke play events and helped the team to a program record five wins in her first season in Garnet and Black
• Had four top-20 finishes overall and a pair of top-10s while logging a scoring average of 74.76 ; shot par or better eight times in 33 rounds played
• Finished 68^th at the NCAA Championship (May 20-25) ; logged 72-hole score of 306 (+18)
• T-18^th at the NCAA Tallahassee Regional (May 10-12) with a four-under 68 in the final round to help the team finish second and punch its ticket to Grayhawk for the NCAA Championship
• T-15^th at the SEC Championship (April 13-15) ; shot 219 (+3) at Greystone ; fell 1-up in 22 holes to Alabama’s Emilie Overas in the quarterfinals of match play
• Was dominant in a team victory at the Wolfpack Match Play ; went 3-0 in her matches winning, 6&5, 6&4 and 6&5
• Finished T-25^th in back-to-back events helping the team to wins at the Valspar Invitational (March 12-13) and the Liz Murphey collegiate Classic (March 25-27)
• Season was highlighted by a victory at the Landfall Tradition (Oct. 29-31) in the fall ; shot season-best score of 208 (-8) with a career-best score of 67 (-5) in the opening round ; trailing by two shots with three holes remaining, finished birdie-birdie-eagle to win by three strokes ; team was dominant, winning by 12 shots for its second victory of the fall slate
• T-8^th at the Stephens Cup (Oct. 18-20) with a 54-hole total of 223 (+7) ; fell 3&1 to LSU’s Elsa Svensson in the title match
• Made her Gamecock debut at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate (Sept. 13-15) ; shot 71 (-1) and 72 (E) the first two rounds en route to helping Carolina to a season-opening win

PRIOR TO SOUTH CAROLINA

• Spent first two seasons of collegiate career (2019-21), staring for FAU where she won four times in two seasons of competition (T-2^nd most career wins in school history)
• 2021 C-USA Golfer of the Year and 2021 First Team All-C-USA ; became the third FAU player to win conference golfer of the year honors and the first to do so in C-USA
• Her 71.67 season scoring average in 2020-21 was the lowest in program history and first sub-72 average ; set program records in Par 3 (3.0526), Par 4 (4.0406) and Par 5 (4.7764) scoring
• Became just the second player in program history to earn a spot in NCAA Regionals in 2021
• Finished third in the C-USA Championship (April 19, 2021), the best conference championship finish in program history ; logged two wins in the regular season at the Low Country Intercollegiate (March 13-14, 2021) and Brickyard Collegiate (April 5-6, 2021) ; also won a pair of C-USA Golfer of the Week awards
• Posted four sub-70 rounds in 2020-21 including the second-best round in program history, a 67 in Round 2 of the Low Country Intercollegiate
• Named 2020 C-USA Freshman of the Year after logging a 72.90 scoring average with a win and top-25 finishes in in five of her seven starts ; shot par or better in nine rounds, the second best single-season mark in program history
• First career win came at the Pat Bradley Invitational (Oct. 20-22, 2019) ; shot a career-best score of 205 (-11) with rounds of 69, 68 and 70
• Logged her first career hole-in-one at the Florida Gators Invitational

PERSONAL

• Daughter of Muriel and Vincent Fournand
• Psychology major