Cheyenne Woods Playing in First Pro Tournament

When rising sophomore Cheyenne Woods tees her ball up Thursday morning, she will be playing in her first professional tournament at the Wegmans LPGA in Pittsford, N.Y.

The Phoenix, Ariz., native received a sponsors exemption into the field along with former Duke standout and former high school teammate Amanda Blumenherst. Since Blumenherst turned professional at the beinging of the month, Woods will be the lone amateur in the field.

With 95 of the top 100 players on the LPGA money list in the field this week, Woods will be in good company but ever since her arrival at Locust Country Club on Sunday, she has been quite the media darling.

The Buffalo News ran a preview feature and talked to not only Woods but teammate Natalie Sheary and head coach Dianne Dailey. Woods also recently sat down with Karen Crouse of the N.Y. Times and spoke about the tournament as well as her freshman season as Wake. Fox Sports caught up with Cheyenne and he mother Susan earlier in the week and asked Cheyenne about the pressures of being Tiger's niece as well as what her goals were for the tournament.

You can follow the tournament through Live Scoring on LPGA.com and ESPN2 will have coverage of the event on Friday from 5-7 pm EST, Saturday from 3-5 pm EST and on Sunday from 5-7 pm EST.