Dates: Friday, Sept. 20 – Sunday, Sept. 22
Location: Chicago, Ill. – Olympia Fields CC
Host: University of Illinois
Course Par/Yardage: 70, 7,353
Format: 18 holes each day
Tee Times: 10 a.m. on Friday and TBA Saturday and Sunday
Scoring: Golfstat
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TEE OFF
The fall season continues with a trip to the Fighting Illini Collegiate at Olympia Fields Country Club for the Florida men’s golf team this weekend.
LINE UP
No. 1 – Jack Turner
No. 2 – Ian Gilligan
No. 3 – Parker Bell
No. 4 – Matthew Kress
No. 5 – Zack Swanwick
Individual – Rylan Shim
TOURNAMENT HISTORY
The Gators have competed in the nine eight times with the most recent last season. In 2022, Florida finished T2 behind a runner-up finish from current Korn Ferry Tour member Ricky Castillo. Florida won the tournament in the fall of 2010.
COMPETING TEAMS (Bushnell/Golfweek Preseason Coaches Poll)
No. 16 Alabama, No. 2 Arizona State, RV Baylor, No. 10 Florida, No. 3 Florida State, No. 11 Georgia Tech, No. 9 Illinois, Michigan, No. 5 North Carolina, RV Northwestern, No. 20 Oklahoma State, No. 23 Sanford, No. 8 Texas, No. 19 Texas A&M and No. 15 Texas Tech.
STACKED FIELD
This weekend’s field features one of the best fields in the country this season:
- 14 of 15 teams in the field are ranked or receiving votes in the GCAA Preseason Bushnell/Golfweek Coaches Poll released Aug. 30.
- Programs in the 2024 tournament field have combined to account for 18 of 30 spots in the 15 NCAA Championship match play finals since the current format began in 2009
- 14 of 15 teams in the field competed in the 2024 NCAA Regionals
- 11 of the 15 teams in the field advanced to the 2024 NCAA Championship stroke play
- The field includes four of the final eight teams that made up match play at the 2024 NCAA Championship: quarterfinalists Illinois and North Carolina; semifinalist Georgia Tech; and finalist Florida State
LAST TIME OUT
For the second consecutive round the Florida owned the low round in the field en route to a second-place finish in the season opener at the Sahalee Players Championship.
The Gators climbed multiple spots (4 in round three, 5 in round two) in back-to-back rounds to finish with a team score of 868 (+4) behind a final round of 285 (-3) to finish runner-up. Florida’s rounds of 283 and 285 marked the second and fourth lowest by a team outside of Arizona State’s 282 and 284, who won the tournament at…
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