MOBILE, Ala. | After not competing for nearly a month, the South Alabama women's golf team will return to action this weekend when it competes at the 46th Annual FIU Pat Bradley Invitational hosted by Florida International at Lakewood Ranch Golf & Country Club on the par 72, 6,223-yard course.

The three-day, 54-hole event will feature 18 holes each day beginning on Saturday with the Jaguars paired up with Western Kentucky and Northern Illinois on the opening day and scheduled to tee off on hole No. 1 beginning at 7:50 a.m. (CT). 

Scheduled to compete for the Jaguars at the tournament with their first-round tee-times on Saturday are Malia Uyeshiro (7:50 a.m.), Icie Cockerham (8 a.m.), Laura Burch (8:10 a.m.), Cassidy Lambert, (8:20 a.m.) and Grace Suter (8:30 a.m.).

Sunday's second round action is scheduled to begin again at holes No. 1 and 10 at 7 a.m. (CT) with Monday's final round set for a 7:30 a.m. (CT) shot-gun start.

Live scoring for the tournament can be accessed at Golfstat. 

Along with South Alabama, the 11-team field includes Cincinnati, Daytona State, FIU, Florida Gulf Coast, Miami, Northern Illinois, Seminole State, South Dakota, Stetson, Western Kentucky and Wyoming, as well as 18 different individual players, including three from Florida.

The appearance at the event marks the third overall by the Jaguars and the first by the program since 2019 where South finished sixth out of 17 teams (283-307-291—881). Siti Shaari and Julie Hovland earned top-five and top-10 finishes, respectively, as Shaari finished in third place with a three-round, 9-under par total of 207. Hovland finished tied for seventh after turning in a 2-under par 214 over three rounds. South Alabama recorded a then-program-low single round 5-under par 283 in the opening round.

Suter is averaging a team-low 76.3 strokes per round, while Cockerham is close behind her at 79.5. Cockerham leads the club with 15 birdies through the first two tournaments this fall, while Suter has 13. 

Lambert has 14 birdies and an eagle, while Burch recorded the first hole-in-one by a player since Caroline Berge during the 2019 spring season, on her final shot at the Leadership and Golf Invitational four weeks ago.

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