NORFOLK, Va. \u2013 Old Dominion women’s golf is back in action this weekend as the Monarchs travel to Greenville, South Carolina to play in the 52nd annual Lady Paladin Invitational, hosted by Furman on Sept. 18-20 at Furman University Golf Club.<\/p>\n
The three-day tournament will have 10 a.m. shotgun starts on Friday and Saturday and a 9 a.m. shotgun start on Sunday. The course has a par of 72 and is 6,439 yards in length. Fans will be able to follow along with live stats provided by Scoreboard by Clippd<\/a>.<\/p>\n The tournament field will consist of 12 teams. The Monarchs and Paladins will be joined by Alabama, Augusta, Daytona State, Florida Gulf Coast, Georgia State, High Point, Minnesota, Rice, Samford, and Xavier.<\/p>\n Making the lineup for the Monarchs are Puneet Bajwa<\/a>, Ellie Johnson<\/a>, Lucia Gonzalez<\/a>, Barbara Car<\/a>, and Darby Hancock<\/a>. Additionally, first year Julia Colombier<\/a> will make her ODU debut and compete as an individual.<\/p>\n Old Dominion is coming off a sixth-place finish at the Golfweek Fall Challenge on Sept. 6-8 to open its fall season. Bajwa led the team with a two-over par 215 to finish tied for 10th.<\/p>\n The Monarchs are playing in the Lady Paladin Invitational for the seventh time. ODU finished ninth at last year\u2019s tournament with a final tally of 19-over par 883. Bajwa, a fourth year from Mohali, India, went four-under par with a score of 212 to finish tied for seventh. Also finishing under par was Car, who shot a three-under 213 to tie for 11th.<\/p>\n The team\u2019s best outing at Furman was in 2022 when they placed second with a combined five-over 869. Alumni Leah Onosato<\/a> recorded a six-under 210 to grab fourth place while Gonzalez tied for fifth with a four-under 212.<\/p>\n Jeff & Billye\u00a0Chernitzer Athletics Hall of Fame Dinner & Induction\u00a0Ceremony The Course Tournament Field ODU Lineup * Competing as an individual<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORFOLK, Va. \u2013 Old Dominion women’s golf is back in action this weekend as the Monarchs travel to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-899878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The 2026 Jeff and Billye Athletics and Hall of Fame Dinner and Induction\u00a0Ceremony is set for Friday, Sept. 25 at\u00a0Chartway Arena.\u00a0Maggie Simmermacher<\/a>\u00a0will be honored along with four other inductees. Simmermacher played at ODU from 2014-18, earning multiple all-conference honors, and became the first golfer in program history to earn a conference player of the award when she was voted Conference USA Player of the Year as a senior.
\nThe event begins at 6 p.m. with a\u00a0cocktail hour with programming beginning at 7 p.m.\u00a0Click here<\/a>\u00a0to purchase tickets.<\/p>\n
Furman University Golf Club
Par: 72
Yardage: 6,439<\/p>\n
Alabama
Augusta
Daytona State
Florida Gulf Coast
Furman
Georgia State
High Point
Minnesota
Old Dominion
Rice
Samford
Xavier<\/p>\n
Puneet Bajwa<\/a>
Ellie Johnson<\/a>
Lucia Gonzalez<\/a>
Barbara Car<\/a>
Darby Hancock<\/a>
Julia Colombier<\/a>*<\/p>\n