The William & Mary women's golf team released its 2015-16 schedule today, a challenging slate of 10 regular season tournaments that begins early in September.  The Tribe brings back four veterans from last year as well as adding two freshmen to try and improve on last year's fifth-place finish in the Colonial Athletic Association.

Complete Schedule

The year begins bright and early with a trip to the Nittany Lion Invitational on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 5-6.  Traditionally an early season destination for the Tribe, Penn State's home event features an unusual play-six, count-four lineup.  The next week, Sunday-Tuesday Sept. 13-15, the Green and Gold returns home to host the W&M Fall Invitational at Kingsmill.  The 54-hole tournament is once again scheduled to play on the Plantation Course.  The final tournament of September is Sept. 28-29, at the Lady Pirate Intercollegiate in Greenville, N.C.

The fall still has two more tournaments coming early in October, before the weather turns too cold for the courses.  On Oct. 5-6, the Tribe will head to North Charleston, S.C., for the Wendy's Invitational, and the following week (Oct. 12-13) stops by Pinehurst, N.C. on the way back to Williamsburg.  The Pinehurst Challenge will be hosted this year on Pinehurst No. 1, first opened in 1898 and featuring 40 bunkers along the course.

After the winter layover is complete, W&M finds itself down south yet again for the Kiawah Island Intercollegiate Feb. 28-March 1.  The largest intercollegiate golf tournament in the country with more than 40 teams, the Kiawah is played on two courses on the island, with each team playing each course once before the final round splits the field in half.  Just a short distance away is Hilton Head Island, which will host the Low Country Intercollegiate on March 19-20 at the Moss Creek Golf Club.

After the two southern tournaments, the Tribe returns home on March 28-29 to host the 28th Annual W&M Intercollegiate.  The tournament returns to Kingsmill for the fifth time, and was won last spring by senior Alessandra Liu (Cynwyd, Pa.), the first Tribe golfer to win at home since 2001.  April 9-10 finds the Green and Gold in Wallace, N.C., for the River Landing Classic, and just a week later W&M will be in Southport, N.C. to wrap the regular season at the CAA Championships.  The conference tournament will once again feature eight teams on the St. James Plantation Golf Club, a course that has rapidly become the traditional home for the league.

The winner of the CAA Championships earns an automatic bid to the NCAA Regional round, May 5-7, which features 18 teams and six players at each of four regional sites.  The top six teams from each regional will continue on to the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore., May 20-25.  The national finals include four rounds of stroke play to determine an individual champion, followed by an eight-team match-play bracket for the team title.