The Troy Trojans women's golf teams represent
Troy University located in
Troy, Alabama
Troy is a city in and the county seat of Pike County, Alabama, United States. It was formally incorporated on February 4, 1843.
Between 1763 and 1783, the area where Troy sits was part of the colony of British West Florida.The Economy of Bri ...
, and compete in
National Collegiate Athletic Association
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(NCAA)
Division I and the
Sun Belt Conference. The Trojans play their home matches at the Troy Country Club, and use the recently built/renovated Trojan Oaks Golf Practice Facility for practicing.
History
The Troy women's golf team has a relatively short history on the golf course. Yearly records for the women's golf team only date back to the 1993–94 academic year.
Since current head coach Bart Barnes took over the team in 2013, he has led the team to three NCAA Regional appearances, three conference championships, and multiple national rankings. One of Barnes's top record-breaking players at Troy, Fátima Fernández Cano, won the Sun Belt Conference individual championship in 2014. In 2016, despite the women's golf team falling short of another Sun Belt title, Fernández Cano received an individual at-large bid to the
NCAA Golf Championships.
Barnes was named
Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year in 2014 and 2015.
National Championships
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NCAA Division II
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– national champions: 1984, 1986, 1989
Conference championships
*2014 Sun Belt Conference
*2015 Sun Belt Conference
*2017 Sun Belt Conference
All-Americans
The Troy women's golf team has had 4 players named All-Americans.
Trojans on professional tours
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Fátima Fernández Cano
Fátima Fernández Cano (born 23 October 1995) is a Spanish professional golfer and member of the LPGA Tour.
Early life, amateur and college career
Cano was born in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. As a junior player, Cano won the Galicia Champions ...
(
LPGA Tour
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)
* Sofia Bjorkman (
LET Access Series
The LET Access Series (LETAS) is a professional golf tour for women and the official development tour to the Ladies European Tour.
Launched in 2010, the LET Access Series provides players with an opportunity to compete and progress on to the LET ...
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Trojan Oaks Golf Complex
The Trojans golf team's home practice course is the Trojan Oaks Practice Course, located in Troy, Alabama. The facility, which underwent a $1.5 million renovation in 2013, used 40 acres of the original Trojan Oaks Golf Course and created a 9-hole, par-34 practice course plus state-of-the-art putting and chipping greens, a wedge practice area, a full driving range, and a new golf clubhouse. The courses hitting bays feature FlightScope Technology for swing analysis, Sam PuttLab for putting analysis, and BodiTrak monitors to measure the body weight shifting when players swing. It is the only course of its kind on the Sun Belt Conference.
References
External links
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