MOULTRIE — Colquitt County golfer Anna Leigh Keith made recruiting visits to Georgia, Auburn, Tulane, Vanderbilt and Kentucky.

She also had offers from a number of other top college women’s golf programs around the country, including Texas and Ohio State.

In the end, Keith chose to go to Nashville, where she can hear the best in country music when she is not striking and putting a golf ball for the Vanderbilt Lady Commodores.

Keith signed a letter of intent to attend Vanderbilt next year and put behind her an outstanding high school and junior golf career.

She is currently ranked No. 61 in the American Junior Golf Association’s Polo rankings and will be one of 78 girls from around the country to compete in the AJGA’s Polo Junior Golf Classic, which will begin Saturday and run through Nov. 28, at the Ginn Reunion Resort near Orlando.

Keith also has been named a member of the AJGA’s 2008 HP Scholastic Junior All-American Team.

That award is based not only on her performances on the fairways and greens, but also on her 97.83 grade point average and the No. 13 ranking in her Colquitt County High class of 472.

Also among her junior golf achievements is being named the Southern Junior Golf Tour’s Player of the Year in 2007.

She also qualified for the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship held last August in Eugene, Ore.

“She’s just what every coach wants,” Colquitt County High golf coach Donald Dale said. “She competes every time she plays. She’s the most dedicated girl I’ve ever coached and is as dedicated as any boy I’ve ever had.”

Dale calls her “a great ball-striker. She’s as good from tee to green as anyone I’ve had.

“If she improves on her putting — and she’s working on it — she has a chance to be a great player.”

Keith has been coached primarily by Bill Connally at Glen Arven Country Club in Thomasville and by Chan Reeves in Atlanta.

Dale said Keith’s outstanding performance this summer, which also included leading the Georgia team to a win in the Georgia/South Carolina team matches at Sea Island in July, impressed college coaches.

“She really had a great summer,” Dale said. “Coaches were all over her.”