The Second Annual Elizabethtown-White Lake Collegiate Invitational Golf Tournament is scheduled for Carolina Sands Golf Course at White Lake this weekend.

The event gets underway Friday afternoon with the 13 teams participating in practice rounds.

The tournament gets underway Saturday at 12 noon, and resumes Sunday at 8 a.m.

"We are looking forward to the tournament," UNC-Pembroke golf coach John Haskins said.

UNC-Pembroke is one of the 13 teams participating, along with Catawba College, Newberry, Queens College, Presbyterian College, Tusculum, Wingate College, Belmont Abbey, USC-Aiken, Coker College, Barton College, Longwood College, St. Andrews College, and Pfeiffer College.

Several of the teams are ranked among the top forty teams in the nation.

USC-Aikens is ranked as the No. 2 team in the nation. Pfeiffer is ranked 12th, Presbyterian is 30th, Coker is 39th, Tusculum 47th, and UNC-Pembroke is ranked 68th.

"In only two years, this has become one of the top collegiate golf tournaments around," Haskins said.

"The folks in Elizabethtown and White Lake do a tremendous job with this event," he said.

"All the teams look forward to returning to White Lake each year," Haskins said. "The sponsors there do a great job making this one of the best tournaments in the nation."

Progress Energy is the key sponsor for the tournament