NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Vanderbilt men’s golf team lifted the curtain Monday on an exciting and challenging schedule, a slate consisting of 10 regular-season events designed to challenge the Commodores each time out on the course.
“Our schedule will once again give our student-athletes the opportunity to play against the best competition on some of the best golf courses in the world,” Vanderbilt head coach Scott Limbaugh said. “When you choose to play at Vandy, you are choosing excellence in everything and our schedule is a huge part of that.
“As always, we’ve added a few new tournaments to our schedule and there are some regulars that we hope will always be there. We are thankful to have these type of opportunities for our guys. We are very excited about the upcoming season and looking forward to seeing what type of team we can become.”
Vanderbilt will begin the 2022-23 season by playing host to the Frederica Cup. The Commodores will be one of eight teams competing Sept. 7-8 at the Frederica Golf Cub on Saint Simons Island, Georgia.
Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi State, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Texas Christian and Texas Tech make up the remainder of the impressive field. Oklahoma, Texas Tech, Georgia, Ohio State and Arkansas all made the 2022 NCAA Championships and Vandy, Oklahoma and Texas Tech all advanced to the match play portion of that event.
Oklahoma was ranked the No. 1 team in the country for much of the 2021-22 season and Texas Tech’s Ludvig Aberg is considered one of the world’s top amateur golfers. The Frederica Cup is a 54-hole event over two days.
“It’s exciting to be able to start a new event at a place as special as Frederica,” Limbaugh said. “We’ve had a great time with this group of teams and coaches and it was important to us to find a place that really wants to embrace who we are as a group.
“We have certainly found that in the membership and ownership of Frederica and this will continue to give all our student-athletes an opportunity to play against the best competition on a championship course.”
Vandy will next head to Birmingham, Alabama, to take part in the three-day SEC Fall Preview (Sept. 25-27) at the Old Overton Golf Club. That event will consist of 36 holes of stroke play the first day followed by 18 holes of stroke play the second day. The final day of competition will feature match play with the bracket set based upon each team’s respective finish in stroke play.
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