NDSU Girls’s Golf Travels to Diane Thomason Invitational

THIS WEEK
The North Dakota State ladies’s golf group travels to Iowa City, Iowa for the annual Diane Thomason Invitational. The occasion can be hosted by Iowa at their very own Finkbine Golf Course on September 29-30.
 
TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
The Diane Thomason Invitational can be a two-day, 54-hole event, with rounds one and two on Monday and the ultimate spherical on Tuesday. Both days will characteristic a shotgun begin with a tee off slated for 8:30 a.m. CT.
 
FOLLOW THE ACTION
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TOURNAMENT FIELD
The 2025 Diane Thomason Invitational will characteristic 16 groups within the competitors. Along with NDSU, the sphere consists of Iowa, Montana State, Creighton, Southern Miss, Missouri State, Northern Iowa, Southern Illinois, Bradley, Bowling Green, Western Michigan, St. Thomas (MN), Drake, Northern Illinois, Omaha, and South Dakota.
 
THE COURSE
Named after W.O. Finkbine, who donated the land used for the course to the University of Iowa, Finkbine Golf Course is the house of the Iowa Hawkeyes Men’s and Women’s golf groups and the annual Hawkeye Invitational for the boys, and Diane Thomason Invitational for the ladies. Finkbine Golf Course is in its seventieth 12 months after opening to the general public in 1955. The par-72, 6,547-yard course holds a novel, signature thirteenth gap, that options an island inexperienced surrounded by the lone water characteristic on the course and presents two greens and a number of totally different tee packing containers. The course hosted the Men’s Big Ten Championships in 1992 and 2002, and on the skilled stage, was the location of the PGA Amana VIP Pro-Am for over 20 years.
 
BISON AT THE DIANE THOMASON
This can be NDSU’s fourth look on the Diane Thomason Invitational, with their first being in 2014. The Bison positioned fifth out of 15 groups of their final look in 2024, and the very best group end being second place in 2018. Taylor McCorkle is the one Bison to have claimed a person title on the occasion in program historical past.
 
LAST TIME OUT
The Women’s group enters the Diane Thomason Invitational following a fourth-place end on the Yellowstone Intercollegiate. Avery Bartels was the lone Bison within the prime 10 and shot a career-low spherical of 68 within the remaining spherical of the occasion.
 
BISON COMPETING
NDSU will carry six golfers right down to Finkbine for the 2025 Diane Thomason Invitational. The Bison competing can be Norah Roberts, Madi Hicks, Cora Larson, Avery Bartels, and Hannah Dunk, with Jeri Lafleche competing as a person.
 
ON THE LINKS
– Avery Bartels enters the Diane Thomason Invitational following her third collegiate prime 10 end on the Yellowstone Intercollegiate and holds the bottom spherical of the season for the Bison at 68 (-4).
 
– Senior Madi Hicks will make her thirty fourth consecutive begin for the ladies’s golf group. Hicks was the very best inserting Bison on the 2024 Diane Thomason Invitational, ending in a tie for fifth at +9 general.
 
– Freshman Jeri Lafleche will make her first journey look with the Bison. Lafleche was the very best inserting particular person on the NDSU Invitational, ending in a tie for twelfth at +11 general.
 
LOOKING AHEAD
Following the Diane Thomason Invitational, the Bison will take practically a month off earlier than returning to motion on the Powercat. Hosted by Kansas State, this event will happen at Colbert Hills Golf Course in Manhattan, Kansas on October 20-21.