Cards Face Difficult Field at the Inverness Intercollegiate

LOUISVILLE– The University of Louisville golf team will compete against some of the nation’s top teams and players at the 16th-annual Inverness Intercollegiate on Monday-Tuesday, Sept. 26-27 at the Inverness Club. The 54-hole tournament will be played on a par-71, 7,265-yard layout that has hosted numerous major golf championships. The teams will begin with 36 holes on Monday (8:45 a.m. shotgun start) followed by the final 18 holes on Tuesday (8:30 a.m. tee times on Holes No. 1 and 10).
 
The Inverness Club was founded in 1903, and along with the University of Toledo, served as host for the 2009 NCAA Men’s Golf Championships. Inverness hosted the 2021 Solheim Cup in addition to previously hosting four U.S. Opens, two U.S. Senior Opens, two PGA Championships and one U.S. Amateur. In the future, Inverness will host the 2027 U.S. Women’s Open and the 2029 U.S. Amateur.

All 16 schools competing in this year’s tournament were ranked in the Top 100 of last year’s Golfweek final rankings. Highlighting the field are five 2022 NCAA Championship participants – East Tennessee State, Georgia Tech, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Texas Tech – and seven more 2022 NCAA Regional qualifiers – Charlotte, Louisville, Notre Dame, Purdue, SMU, Virginia and Washington. The Sooners and Red Raiders both lost in the quarterfinals of match play at the NCAA Championships

Oklahoma was ranked No. 4 in the first Bushnell/Golfweek Division I Coaches Poll and will be joined in the Glass City by No. 6 Georgia Tech, No. 8 Texas Tech, No. 20 Notre Dame and No. 22 Washington. Also receiving votes in the poll were Ohio State, Purdue, SMU and Virginia.

The tournament will also feature the No. 1 player in the World Amateur Golf Rankings in Texas Tech’s Ludvig Aberg.  Other individuals ranked in the Top 100 are Georgia Tech’s Ross Steelman (No. 24), Ohio State’s Maxwell Moldovan (No. 27), Virginia’s Ben James (No. 31), Georgia Tech’s Christo Lamprecht (No. 39), Notre Dame’s Palmer Jackson (No. 43), Louisville’s Jiri Zuska (No. 51), East Tennessee State’s Archie Davies (No. 52), Texas Tech’s Bard Skogan (No. 53), Georgia Tech’s Connor Howe (No. 59), Georgia Tech’s Bartley Forrester (No. 61), Notre Dame’s Taichi Kho (No. 80), Oklahoma’s Drew Goodman (No. 81), and Virginia’s Pietro Bovari (No. 93).

Texas Tech will be looking to defend its title from 2019 when…