THE FLATS – Georgia Tech’s 11th-ranked golf team returns to action for its fifth event of the spring season, making its third appearance in The Goodwin, set to take place Thursday through Saturday at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco for the second time in the tournament’s history since 1968.
Head coach Bruce Heppler will send his starting five and one individual against a 28-team field that includes seven teams ranked among Golfstat’s current top 50, led by the host team, No. 8 Stanford. Tech has yet to win a tournament in 2022-23, but has finished as the runner-up four times, including twice this spring at the Watersound Invitational and the Linger Longer Invitational. The Yellow Jackets also tied for sixth at the Southern Highlands Collegiate.
The format is 54 holes, 18 each day beginning at 10 a.m. Eastern time from both the first and 10th tees, with the low four individual scores of five each day counting toward the team total. Tech, which finished in sixth place in the event last spring, with Christo Lamprecht leading the way by tying for eighth individually, will tee off at 4 p.m. Eastern time Thursday in round 1 and 11 a.m. Friday in round 2. Saturday’s round 3 will be paired according to 36-hole scores.
TEAM UPDATE – Tech has been ranked as high as No. 8 this spring in the Golfstat rankings following their second-place finish at the Watersound Invitational in February, and currently sit No. 11. But the Jackets hold a season-high No. 7 spot in the Golfweek/Sagarin Index having played the nation’s ninth-toughest schedule with an 18-21-3 mark against the nation’s top 25 teams by that measure.
Statistically, Tech ranks 10th nationally in average individual score, No. 2 in final-round scoring average, No. 8 in par-3 scoring, and No. 13 in both par-4 and par-5 scoring.
Heppler will field the same starting lineup that has competed in the Jackets’ first four tournaments this spring, including All-American Christo Lamprecht and fifth-year senior Connor Howe, who are the only Yellow Jackets to be a part of the starting five for every event this year.
Lamprecht, a 6-8 junior from South Africa who reached match play at the U.S. Amateur in August, won the Inverness Invitational in the fall and has finished in the top 10 in each of Tech’s last three events, including a tie for second at the Linger Longer Invitational most recently. Howe, from Ogden, Utah, recorded his best finish of the spring last time out at the Linger Longer…
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