Big Ten Women's Championship Comes to The Fort!

Big Ten Conference Selects The Fort Golf Course
As Site of 2015 and 2016 Women’s Golf Championships  

For Immediate Release:May 22, 2014 

Contacts:Olivia Truby, Big Ten Conference, (847) 696-1010 

INDIANAPOLIS – The Big Ten Conference announced that The Fort Golf Course in Indianapolis, Ind., will be the site for the 2015 and 2016 Big Ten Women’s Golf Championships.  

The 2015 championships are April 24-26, 2015, while the 2016 event dates are April 22-24, 2016. 

Michigan State and Ohio State shared the 2014 Big Ten title as the championships were played at the Pete Dye Course in French Lick, Ind. Five Big Ten teams were selected to the NCAA Women’s Golf Regionals field in 2014 with three of those teams – Michigan State, Northwestern and Ohio State – advancing to the 2014 NCAA Women’s Golf Championships.  

The Fort

As part of the former Ft. Benjamin Harrison military base that was decommissioned in the early 1990s, the state of Indiana took over the facility as well as the surrounding 1800 acres. The wooded acreage was transformed into a state park. The golf course was redesigned by renowned architect Pete Dye and reopened in 1997. The Fort is consistently ranked by numerous national golf publications as one of the top facilities in Indiana. In 2014, GolfWeek magazine said that The Fort was the top ranked public golf course in the Indianapolis area and the highest ranked course not associated with an accompanying casino in the entire state. More information is available at TheFortGolfCourse.com.

About the Big Ten Conference: The Big Ten Conference is an association of world-class universities whose member institutions share a common mission of research, graduate, professional and undergraduate teaching and public service. Founded in 1896, the Big Ten has sustained a comprehensive set of shared practices and policies that enforce the priority of academics in student-athletes’ lives and emphasize the values of integrity, fairness and competitiveness. The broad-based athletic programs of the 12 Big Ten institutions provide in excess of $141 million in direct financial aid to more than 8,200 student-athletes playing on more than 300 teams in 43 different sports. The Big Ten sponsors 26 official conference sports, 13 for men and 13 for women, and will add men’s and women’s lacrosse as the 27th and 28th official sports for the 2014-15 academic year. For more information, visit www.bigten.org.