DAYTON - The University of Dayton women's golf team will be competing in the Shirley Spork Invitational hosted by Eastern Michigan Oct. 4-5. The three-round event is being played at Eagle Crest Golf Club in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and the course will be played at par 72 and 6,571 yards.

LIVE SCORING

DAYTON LINEUP
1. Sarah O'Connor
2. Jenna Harter
3. Megan Yoder
4. Sarah Frazier
5. Hailey Tanis

THE FIELD (11)
Akron, Bowling Green, Central Michigan, Dayton, Detroit Mercy, Eastern Michigan, Green Bay, Oakland, Ohio, Western Michigan, Youngstown State

FORMAT
36 holes on Monday with a 9 a.m. shotgun start - Dayton will be starting from holes 15, 16, 17 and 18. Tuesday's round will also be a 9 a.m. shotgun start.

WHO IS SHIRLEY SPORK
The first female inducted into the E-Club Hall of Fame in 1981, Spork began her golf career early in life. She started playing with one club, a putter, at age 10. While attending then-MSNC, Spork won the Women's District Match Play Championship three times in four years. In 1947, she was the winner of the first-ever National Collegiate Championship held for women's athletics, plus she was the victor of the 1949 Michigan Amateur. After graduation, Spork became a teacher in the Detroit public schools, but realized she would much rather be playing golf. She turned professional in 1950 and played the tour, but along the way realized she was still a teacher at heart. In 1959 along with Marilynn Smith, Betty Hicks and Barbara Rotvig, she founded the LPGA's Teaching and Club Professional Division. Spork was the first LPGA professional to conduct golf clinics in foreign countries and was a two-time LPGA Teacher of the Year (1959, 1984). She was the chairperson of the LPGA T&CP Division from 1960-66, and received the Meritorious Service Award in 1989. Among her honors are the 1994 Byron Nelson Award, the 1998 LPGA Ellen Griffin Rolex Award, membership in the inaugural class of the LPGA Teaching & Club Professionals Division Hall of Fame in 2000, and a 2002 inductee in the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame. Spork was recently named one of the inductees into the 2019 Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) of America Hall of Fame.

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