If you ever played sports during high school, or even college, you know the feeling. Usually toward the end of the season, walking onto your home field for the final time ever, with a chance to leave one last memory in the minds of your friends, family, coaches, teammates and fans.

Senior night has always marked the culmination of years of hard work and sacrifice which brought with it one final, well-deserved recognition.

Now take that end-of-the-year feeling and move it to the second week of the season, with 90 percent of your matches left to play. That's what Maggie Lester, Evelyn Paik and Christina Kocinski, the seniors on the Penn State women's golf team, get to experience this coming weekend as they host the Nittany Lion Invitational. This is the final time to play in front of a supportive home crowd and family members, and it will be over before they realize it.

"It doesn't even feel like we're seniors yet, come March or April it will set in, but right now it doesn't feel any different," Lester said.

To them, this feels like just another match, but in March or April the seniors will be wishing for just one more chance to play at home under the veil of Mt. Nittany.

Sure, there are some difficulties since golf is different than most sports. For starters, events take entire weekends and competing mid-week is almost impossible.

Also, considering the fact that State College is essentially Siberia come late October, it is easy to see why the Blue Course only hosts one event each fall.

But golf is a two-season sport. The tees and greens may be permafrost for five months straight, but once spring arrives, who wants to be playing golf in humid, gator-infested Florida when you could be teeing off less than five miles from home?

True, there are also a ton of responsibilities to hosting a golf tournament. It is expensive and a logistical nightmare. The Blue Course is essentially shut down for four peak playing days, so there is lost revenue. Also, volunteers need to be found, hotels booked and with the demand of the Internet, the media needs to be informed of every stroke on every hole.

But let's not joke around here. Sure, it is expensive and requires a lot of planning, but this is Penn State we're talking about, with one of the best athletic departments in the country. With a yearly income of more than $47 million, I think we could find a couple dollars here or there to put together another golf tournament in the spring so that the seniors aren't forced to be playing their final home match on Sept 24.

Every other sport hosts multiple events yearly, which can boost popularity and serve as a vital recruiting tool. But golf gets one chance to not have to board a plane, sleep in their own beds and play under the most ideal conditions. This gives head coach Denise St. Pierre one shot to show off Penn State to high profile recruits.

So, although it may take some work, there needs to be another golf tournament here at Penn State. One is not enough, especially for a team and school of its caliber. We are, after all, in the Big Ten. They have a chance to strengthen the program and make Penn State an even better place to come to golf.

Let's take a little money, set aside a weekend in late March or early April and put together a real opportunity for the seniors to end their Penn State careers in style -- playing one last tournament on the fairways in Happy Valley.