WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The No. 40-ranked Purdue men’s golf team begins its stretch run this weekend, when it resumes to action at the Hootie at Bulls Bay Golf Club in Awendaw, South Carolina.
Action gets underway Sunday at the difficult Bulls Bay Golf Club as 15 teams descend on the South Carolina low-country. The teams will play 18 holes on three straight days, beginning Sunday and ending Tuesday.
The Boilermakers enter the event as the top-ranked team in the field (40), but will be among 11, top-100 teams looking to be called Hootie at Bulls Bay champions. Purdue is 6-4-0 against teams in the field, having seen South Carolina (2-1-0), East Tennessee State (1-1-0), College of Charleston (1-0-0), VCU (1-0-0), West Virginia (1-0-0) and Wisconsin (0-2-0) previously.
THE FIELD (Golfstat Rankings / as of March 24, 2023)
40 Purdue
41 East Tennessee State
47 Missouri
51 South Carolina
55 New Mexico
59 North Carolina State
61 Furman
62 Kent State
70 Wisconsin
89 Kentucky
90 VCU
121 West Virginia
125 Virginia Tech
158 College of Charleston
262 Eastern Kentucky
LAST TIME OUT
Playing over a month ago, Purdue couldn’t get it going until the third round at the Puerto Rico Classic, finishing 10th in the elite field at 7-under par 857 (289-288-280). The Boilermakers had its five players finish between 28th and 54th, led by Herman Sekne at 3-under par 213 (28th) and Peyton Snoeberger (34th) and Kent Hsiao (34th) at 2-under par 214. Hsiao was competing in his first tournament on the counting team.
TEAM NOTES
- Purdue has finished in the top five of four of its six tournaments played this season. Purdue is on track to make NCAA Regionals for the eighth time in nine regionals under head coach Rob Bradley.
- Purdue’s best team round average is the final round, almost three shots better than the second round and four shots better than round…
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