2019 OVC Women's Golf Championship
The 2019 OVC Women's Golf Championship was held April 15-17 at The Shoals on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. It marked the fourth time the event has been held at the venue (it was also held there in 2008, 2014 and 2018). For the second year in a row it will be contested on the on the Schoolmaster Course (the 2008 and 2014 events were played on the Fighting Joe course).
The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at The Shoals is home to two 18-hole championship courses and lies between the Wheeler and Wilson dams on the Tennessee River. Wheeler Dam is named in honor of General Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler - the only Confederate General to attain the same rank later in the United States Army.
The tree-lined Schoolmaster Course (named for President Woodrow Wilson who was responsible for getting Wilson Dam built and was also known as "The Schoolmaster" of politics), opened in the Summer of 2005. Schoolmaster is more traditional golf with every hole keeping with the natural topography along the Tennessee River. It's wooded, rolling and spectacular. It's hard to beat the beauty that the par-4 eighteenth hole holds on the high bluffs over the river.
Murray State led wire-to-wire at the Championship to win its third-straight and record 12th overall OVC Championship.