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Florida Continues Fall Campaign at Georgetown Intercollegiate

Florida Continues Fall Campaign at Georgetown Intercollegiate


TOURNAMENT INFORMATION

Dates:
Sunday, Oct. 15 – Monday, Oct. 16
Location: Rockville, Md. – Woodmont Country Club
Host: Georgetown Univeristy 
Course Par/Yardage: 72 / 7,385 yards
Format: 54-Hole Tournament (36 on Sunday and 18 on Monday)
Tee Times: 8:30 a.m. both days 
Scoring: Golf Stat
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TEE OFF
The Florida men’s golf team continues the fall campaign this weekend at the Georgetown Intercollegiate from Oct. 15-16 at Woodmont Country Club.

LINEUP

No. 1 – Matthew Kress

No. 2 – Luke Poulter

No. 3 – Ian Gilligan

No. 4 – Tyler Wilkes

No. 5 – John DuBois

Ind. – Jack Turner

COMPETING TEAMS 

Campbell, Columbia, Eastern Michigan, Florida, Howard, Georgetown, Loyola Md., Penn, Princeton, Richmond, St. Joseph’s, Navy and William & Mary.

LAST TIME OUT

Florida finished T4 at the Williams Cup after a team round fo 291 that was led by Luke Poulter, who had a career-best finish at T11. His performance earned him SEC Freshman of the Week as Tyler Wilkes (competing as an individual) shot a 54-hole score of 214 (-2) with two rounds in the 60s (69-66) and finished tied for 3rd, tying his collegiate-best.

TOURNAMENT HISTORY

Florida will make its tournament debut at Georgetown Intercollegiate this weekend.

HISTORIC SEASON REWIND 

It was a historic season for the Gators in 2022-23 that led to the program’s fifth National Championship and 16th SEC Championship.

Florida captured a national title for the first time in 22 years last week as the Gators swept NCAAs with Fred Biondi winning the NCAA Individual Championship. It was the third UF golfer (Nick Gilliam 2001, Bob Murphy 1966) to achieve the honor and second time in 30 years the program swept both titles. Florida is one of seven schools to achieve the mark twice. The Gators won the NCAA team title, individual title and conference title in the same season for the first time in program history. 

Head Coach J.C. Deacon was tabbed both the SEC and National Coach of the Year for the first time in his career as assistant coach Dudley Hart earned National Assistant Coach of the Year. It was the first time in history that UF won both awards in the same season. 

UF reached match play at nationals for the first time in program history after playing in the fourth round of stroke play for the fifth time overall.  Florida finished stroke play in 2nd with a score of 1118 (-2), its lowest all-time at Grayhawk and first under par team score at the NCAAs…

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