Dates: Sunday, Sept. 25 – Tuesday, Sept. 27
Location: Vestavia Hills, Ala. – Old Overton Club
Host: University of Alabama
Course Par/Yardage: 70 / 7,204 yards
Format: 36 holes Sunday, 18 holes Monday and match play Tuesday
Tee Times: 9:30 a.m. ET on Sunday and TBA Monday and Tuesday
Scoring: Golf Stat
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TEE OFF
After winning the first tournament of the season and a runner-up finishing in a loaded field last week, the Florida men’s golf team heads to the SEC Match Play Championship.
COMPETING TEAMS
Alabama (host), Arkansas, Auburn, Georgia, LSU, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&M and Vanderbilt.
TOURNAMENT HISTORY
After 35 seasons (1986-2020), the Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate will make the transition to a first-of-its-kind SEC Match Play hosted by Jerry Pate. All 14 SEC schools will compete in 54 holes of stroke play – 36 holes Sunday followed by 18 Monday – with match play coming on Tuesday. The top two finishers from stroke play will square off in the final groupings of the day, while the 12 other teams will square off in East vs. West match play format.
LAST TIME OUT
Ricky Castillo and the Gators reocrded a runner-up finish at the OFCC/Fighting Illini Invite last week. The Gators shot a team score of 843 (+3) backed behind a round three of 279 (-1) after starting the day in fourth. Florida opened up the season with a victory at the Fighting Irish Collegiate as the field this weekend with five of the eight teams that made match play at the 2022 NCAA Championships, including last year’s national champion, Texas, and runner-up, Arizona State.
Castillo posted three rounds of 68 (-2) to end 6-under overall at Olympia Fields. The round marked his fourth under-par this season as we went bogey-free on the back with birdies on 10 (par 4, 444 yards) and 18 (par 4, 496 yards). His 54-hole score of 204 was only three strokes away from tying ninth all-time last set by Chris Nido in the 2019 NCAA Regional. He also was tied for a tournament-leading 12 birdies.
Yuxin Lin (T15) and Fred Biondi (T20) both placed in the top-25 for the second consecutive tournament. Biondi used his lowest round (69, -1) of the weekend to jump 17 spots. Starting and ending the day with a birdie, Lin shot an even 70 in round three.
A SEASON AGO
After a bumpy start early in the fall, the Gators concluded with a top-5 finish…
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