Dates: Sunday, Sept. 4 – Monday, Sept. 5
Location: South Bend, Ind. – The Warren Course
Host: Notre Dame
Course Par/Yardage: 70 / 7,023 yards
Format: 36 holes – Sunday and 18 holes – Monday
Tee Instances: TBA
Reside Scoring: Golf Stat
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TEE OFF
The Florida males’s golf crew opens up the 2022-23 marketing campaign on the Preventing Irish Traditional on Sunday, Sept. 4th.
TOURNAMENT HISTORY
The outing will mark the Gators first look within the Preventing Irish Traditional.
A SEASON AGO
After a bumpy begin early within the fall, the Gators concluded with a top-5 end which carried momentum into the spring with back-to-back victories to start out. The latter included profitable the VyStar Gators Invitational for the twenty eighth time and third consecutive en path to Fred Biondi tying the match report at 196 (-14) for his first profession collegiate title.
The spring featured eight straight top-5 finishes with a runner-up efficiency on the SEC Championship and advancing to the match play for the finals for the primary time in program historical past. John DuBois laid declare to the SEC Particular person Championship for his first collegiate victory.
Florida secured its thirty second NCAA Regional bid and took a 3rd place end to advance its fifty fifth look within the Nationwide Championships. On day three of stroke play, the Gators used late birdies on the again 9 to make the primary lower. UF concluded the season with a tenth place end and solely seven strokes from making match play.
TOUR U
Following a breakout season, Fred Biondi earned the No. 1 rating within the preseason PGA TOUR College Velocity International Class of 2023 Rankings as a complete of 4 Gators positioned within the top-25, the TOUR introduced Wednesday. The following three Florida golfers had been ranked in consecutive order with Ricky Castillo (No. 19), John DuBois (No. 20) and Yuxin Lin (No. 21). The 4 alternatives had been probably the most of any faculty as each North Carolina and Pepperdine had three.
PRESEASON NODS
Previous to the beginning of their senior seasons, Fred Biondi and Ricky Castillo had been named to the Preseason Haskins Award Watch Record. The award is taken into account probably the most prestigious award in collegiate golf, and is introduced yearly to probably the most excellent male golfer.
THE CHAMP
Profitable his first collegiate title, John DuBois grew to become the twenty fifth Gator to win the SEC Particular person Championship, which is probably the most by any faculty within the convention. He tied for the third-lowest spherical (64, -6) in SEC historical past as concluded the stroke play portion of the match setting profession lows in spherical (64), match rating (204) and greatest end (1).
The native of Windermere, Fla., adopted his historic efficiency by sending the Florida males’s golf crew to the SEC Championship Finals together with his victory on the playoff gap within the semifinals vs. No. 1 Texas A&M. He teed off the 18th 1-down and gained the outlet to drive extras. DuBois practically eagled the outlet (565 yards, par 5) as he two putted from seven ft for one more memorable second. The junior went 2-1 within the match play portion of the SEC Championship as he performed in all 27 rounds for the primary time in his profession.
ROOKIE GATORS
Florida brings in each expertise stateside and oversees this season in Park Bell (Tallahassee, Fla.), Toby Bishop (Wales, United Kingdom), Will McGriff (Ponte Vedra Seashore, Fla.) and Luke Poulter (Orlando, Fla.).
GATOR GREAT COACHES
Within the fall, head coach J.C. Deacon introduced the addition of Dudley Hart as the following assistant coach. The Gator Nice spent the final 4 seasons because the volunteer assistant coach. He was four-time All American, the 1987 SEC Freshman of the Yr and a two-time PGA Tour winner.
To start out final spring, Deacon once more took this system to a different degree with the addition of Gator Nice and former FedEx Cup Champion, Billy Horschel, as a volunteer assistant coach. He was a four-year (2006-09) member of the Gator golf crew, three-time (2006-07, 2009) first-team All-American and two-time (2007 & 2009) SEC Participant of the Yr with over 280 skilled outings.
THE TURN
The autumn slate continues with three straight weeks of motion on the OFCC/Preventing Illini Invitational (Sept. 16-18), SEC Match Play (Sept. 25-27) and the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational (Oct. 3-4).