THE FLATS – Ready to take on a major championship venue in its second fall event, Georgia Tech’s sixth-ranked golf team is in Ohio for the Inverness Intercollegiate Monday and Tuesday at the Inverness Club in Toledo.
Head coach Bruce Heppler’s 28th Tech team, which has three All-Atlantic Coast Conference players back from 2021-22 and four individuals listed in the top 100 of the World Amateur Golf Ranking, is coming off a fourth-place finish in its first fall event, the Maui Jim Intercollegiate the second weekend of September.
TOURNAMENT INFORMATION – The Yellow Jackets are competing in the Inverness Intercollegiate for the first time. Host to four men’s U.S. Open championships, two PGA Championships and two men’s NCAA Championships, Inverness is hosting this regular-season event, hosted by Toledo University, for the 16th time.
The tournament begins with 36 holes at 8:45 a.m. Monday, utilizing a shotgun start and no re-pairing for the first two rounds, followed by the final 18 holes Tuesday, with players starting on holes 1 and 10 beginning at 8:30 a.m.
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. Also competing in the tournament along with the Rockets will be Iowa, USC, and South Alabama.
Georgia Tech was ranked No. 6 in the first Bushnell/Golfweek Division I Coaches Poll and will be joined in the Glass City by No. 4 Oklahoma, 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.
Connor Howe tied for third at the Maui Jim Intercollegiate to open the fall season, and is No. 31 in the PGA Tour University ranking. (photo by Todd…
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