Alpharetta, Ga. – Ranked No. 9 in the first fall Scoreboard NCAA Golf Ranking, Georgia Tech’s golf team continues its fall season with its home tournament, the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate Invitational, which will be contested Friday through Sunday at the Golf Club of Georgia’s Lakeside Course.
Tech has a victory under its collective belt at the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational, where the Yellow Jackets bested No. 2 Arizona State by a stroke and a 15-team field that included 11 other top-25 teams, and a pair of eighth-place finishes at the Visit Knoxville Collegiate and the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational. Redshirt junior Benjamin Reuter (Naarden, The Netherlands) has been Tech’s top player in terms of scoring average (69.89) with a runner-up finish at Olympia Fields and a tie for 14th at the Ben Hogan.
The 14-team field includes four teams – Tech, Virginia (7) and Vanderbilt (10) – who advanced to match play at the NCAA Championship last May, and eight teams that competed in stroke play. Ten teams are currently ranked among the top-50 in the Scoreboard rankings. Three of the top 10 players in the World Amateur Golf Ranking – Ben James of Virginia (4), Gordon Sargent (5) and Jackson Van Paris (9) of Vanderbilt are competing.
Tee times begin at 9 a.m. from the first tee and 9:20 a.m. from the 10th tee both Friday and Saturday. The first groups start at 8:30 a.m. and 8:50 a.m., respectively, for Sunday’s final round.
Head coach Bruce Heppler, in his 30th year at the helm of the Tech program, has returned four golfers who played significant roles in getting the Yellow Jackets to the semifinals of the NCAA Championship for the second straight year in 2024, including reigning NCAA Champion Hiroshi Tai (Singapore), who became Tech’s fourth national collegiate champion with his one-shot victory last May in Carlsbad, Calif.
Junior Hiroshi Tai won the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate Invitational as a freshman. (photo by Clyde Click)
TECH LINEUP – Tai, who has won three collegiate tournaments in two years, is on the Fall Watch List for the Fred Haskins Award and has been listed as a pre-season All-American by Golfweek magazine and Golf Channel, leads the five-man contingent for the Yellow Jackets this weekend. The junior from Singapore, who won medalist honors at the 2022 Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate as a freshman, is currently No. 32 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking and has finishes of 12th and sixth among…
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