March 30, 2017 Update: Friday's first round has been postponed due to rain. Teams will play 36 holes on Saturday, beginning with a 7 a.m. CT shotgun start. Sunday's final round remains scheduled for a 7:30 a.m. shotgun start.
WACO, Texas -- Baylor women's golf heads to Browns Summit, N.C., to play in the 20th annual Bryan National Collegiate. The tournament runs Friday through Sunday at the par-72, 6,386-yard Bryan Park Champions Course.
The 18-team field is comprised mostly of teams from the ACC and SEC, with those conferences combining for nine teams in the field. BU is competing at the tournament for the first time and is the first team to represent the Big 12 Conference at the event since Oklahoma State placed eighth in 2006.
Baylor is No. 20 nationally in the latest GolfStat rankings and is among 11 top-50 ranked teams in the field, joining No. 3 Alabama, No. 9 Georgia, No. 11 South Carolina, No. 12 Wake Forest, No. 15 Miami, No. 22 UCF, No. 29 North Carolina State, No. 33 Michigan, No. 37 North Carolina and No. 40 Oregon. Additional teams in the field include UNC Greensboro, College of Charleston, Colorado State, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Penn State and Virginia.
Friday's first round is slated for tee times beginning at 7:30 a.m. CT from both the first and 10th tees. Baylor players will be paired with golfers from Virginia and South Carolina and will tee off from No. 1 beginning at 8:15 a.m. Cheerie Tan, who is making her debut in the Baylor lineup, is up first, and she'll be followed in nine-minute intervals by Dylan Kim, Fiona Liddell, Amy Lee and Maria Vesga, respectively.
Saturday's second round is also set for tee times beginning at 7:30 a.m. CT from the first and 10th tees, with the top half of the field beginning on the first hole. Sunday's final round is a 7:30 a.m. shotgun start.
Duke and Virginia have combined to win the tournament each of the last five years, and ACC teams have claimed the title in 14 of the event's 19 years. The only non-ACC teams to win were Washington (1999), Georgia (2006), Purdue (2007), Florida (2008) and LSU (2009).
Lee leads BU with a 71.50 stroke average and has counted all 17 rounds toward the team score when in the lineup. Vesga is second with a 72.55 stroke average, followed by Kim at 73.90 and Liddell at 74.47. Those four players have combined for 31 round 77 rounds at par or better. Tan played as an individual in Sunday's 36-hole matchup at New Mexico State, carding scores of 73 and 70 to tie for fourth place in a 15-player field.
BU has played in seven tournaments this season, finishing among the top eight teams in every event, including three top-three finishes and one tournament title. The team has combined for a 78-25-1 head-to-head record.
Live scoring for the tournament is available at www.GolfStat.com. Follow @BaylorWGolf on Twitter and Facebook for updates throughout the season.