The 13th-ranked Tennessee men’s golf team begins postseason play Wednesday, competing at the SEC Championships in St. Simons Island Georgia, at Sea Island Golf Club.
The event, which runs from Wednesday through Sunday, features three rounds of stroke play and match play. The top eight teams following the final round of stroke play will advance to the match play portion of the tournament, with the quarterfinals and semifinals on Saturday and the championship on Sunday. For the fifth consecutive year, the final match play round will be televised live on SEC Network.
This marks the 22nd year for the Southeastern Conference Championship to be contested on the Sea Island Golf Club’s Seaside Course. In addition to hosting the SEC Championship, the par 70, 7,005 yard Tom Fazio re-design course is home to the PGA Tour’s annual RSM Classic.
Tennessee has captured three SEC Championships in program history, most recently in 2007.
According to Golfstat’s most recent rankings, seven of the SEC’s 14 teams are ranked inside the top 25, including three in the top 10.
During the 2022 SEC Championships, UT finished seventh place as a team in stroke play, with VFL Spencer Cross shooting 3-under and finishing tied for fifth place overall and VFL Tyler Johnson shooting 1-over and placing tied for 23rd.
Current Vol Bryce Lewis recorded a top-25 finish in last year’s conference tournament after shooting 2-over.
Tennessee is coming off a second-place finish in its last regular season tournament at the Mason Rudolph Championship.
Lewis posted a 9-under total score to finish runner-up, while Caleb Surratt registered a 7-under finish to place tied for fifth.
THE VOLS’ LINEUP
Caleb Surratt
Surratt is coming off his first regular season as a Vol where he logged five top-10 finishes and was Tennessee’s highest finisher in four of its tournaments. The true freshman has also shot a program second-best 22 rounds of par or better so far this season and holds a team-leading 69.78 stroke average.
Bryce Lewis
Having finished tied for 20th (2021) and tied for 25th (2022) during his two career appearances at the conference championship, Lewis is set to make his third career appearance at Sea Island Golf Club’s Seaside Course. This season alone, Lewis has notched six top-25 finishes, including an individual title at the Purdue Fall Invitational and a runner-up finish at the Mason Rudolph Championship.
Jake Hall
The redshirt junior…
The event, which runs from Wednesday through Sunday, features three rounds of stroke play and match play. The top eight teams following the final round of stroke play will advance to the match play portion of the tournament, with the quarterfinals and semifinals on Saturday and the championship on Sunday. For the fifth consecutive year, the final match play round will be televised live on SEC Network.
This marks the 22nd year for the Southeastern Conference Championship to be contested on the Sea Island Golf Club’s Seaside Course. In addition to hosting the SEC Championship, the par 70, 7,005 yard Tom Fazio re-design course is home to the PGA Tour’s annual RSM Classic.
Tennessee has captured three SEC Championships in program history, most recently in 2007.
According to Golfstat’s most recent rankings, seven of the SEC’s 14 teams are ranked inside the top 25, including three in the top 10.
During the 2022 SEC Championships, UT finished seventh place as a team in stroke play, with VFL Spencer Cross shooting 3-under and finishing tied for fifth place overall and VFL Tyler Johnson shooting 1-over and placing tied for 23rd.
Current Vol Bryce Lewis recorded a top-25 finish in last year’s conference tournament after shooting 2-over.
Tennessee is coming off a second-place finish in its last regular season tournament at the Mason Rudolph Championship.
Lewis posted a 9-under total score to finish runner-up, while Caleb Surratt registered a 7-under finish to place tied for fifth.
THE VOLS’ LINEUP
Caleb Surratt
Surratt is coming off his first regular season as a Vol where he logged five top-10 finishes and was Tennessee’s highest finisher in four of its tournaments. The true freshman has also shot a program second-best 22 rounds of par or better so far this season and holds a team-leading 69.78 stroke average.
Bryce Lewis
Having finished tied for 20th (2021) and tied for 25th (2022) during his two career appearances at the conference championship, Lewis is set to make his third career appearance at Sea Island Golf Club’s Seaside Course. This season alone, Lewis has notched six top-25 finishes, including an individual title at the Purdue Fall Invitational and a runner-up finish at the Mason Rudolph Championship.
Jake Hall
The redshirt junior…
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