AUBURN, Ala. – Making the trek to Myrtle Seashore, South Carolina for the 21st Yearly Standard Hackler Championship Sunday and Monday, Auburn men’s golfing appears to be to continue on its steady engage in and develop off a 19-underneath group finish last 7 days at the Tiger Invitational.
“As normally, we’re excited for another chance to get out there and compete,” Tigers head mentor Nick Clinard said. “We’re dealing with the challenge of playing 54 holes in two times, but that is precisely what we did very last 7 days, so we are likely to be working with a whole lot of what we figured out at the Tiger Invitational to form our sport program and assistance us to engage in good golf. Our six men are likely to go out there and give their all each and every time they phase out on the one-way links, and which is all I can question for.”
Teams are established to kickstart enjoy on Sunday, playing two rounds right before the initiating the ultimate round on the adhering to day. The Tigers have built a single prior look at the Standard Hackler Championship, in 2011, during Clinard’s next year on The Plains. As a workforce, Auburn completed third in a field of 17 and were led by sophomore Michael Hebert who shot 6-around to complete in a tie for 10th place. Tigers’ volunteer assistant Blayne Barber also performed in the event, shooting 7-over to position 13th.
For this year’s celebration, Auburn sends a crew of two freshmen, just one sophomore and three juniors to battle it out at The Dunes Golfing Club.
Building his return to the lineup is Auburn’s main scorer from the Tiger Invitational and the reigning SEC Freshman of the 7 days, Brendan Valdes. Valdes shot 11-underneath last time out to solidify his to start with occupation best-5 finish and the 1st SEC Freshman of the Week honor for the Tigers considering that J.M. Butler a yr in the past.
Valdes is joined by a different freshman in Evan Vo. The Austin, Texas indigenous offers a 72.58 annually scoring common and has carded eight of his 12 rounds at par or improved.
Sophomore J.M. Butler will be the 3rd underclassman in the Tiger lineup this week. Butler has finished within the prime-10 in four of his 5 outings this season and offers a 70.60 scoring regular on the calendar year.
Top the trio of juniors slated to strike the backlinks this 7 days is Austin Coggin. Coggin enters the tournament with a few best-20 finishes, 7 rounds below par and a group-major 66 birdies produced on the year. The Birmingham, Alabama native’s best outing of the year came in the spring-opener with an 11-beneath tally at the Amer Ari Invitational.
Oxford, Mississippi indigenous C.J. Easley will spherical out Auburn’s five-man lineup and Palm Seaside, Florida product or service Alex Vogelsong will golf as the Tigers’ individual participant. Easley has arguably had the most regular period for the Tigers and has carded major-15 finishes in each and every of his very last two outings.
With a 2-less than 54-hole score last 7 days, Vogelsong now fulfills the minimum amount 60 occupation rounds to etch his title into the Auburn file guides with what is currently the sixth-finest job scoring common, 71.90 strokes for every round, in faculty background.
In buy to appear absent with their 2nd crew title of the year, the Tigers will need to outplay rivals from 14 other universities. Established to be a part of No. 19 Auburn this 7 days is host Coastal Carolina, East Carolina, ETSU, Kent Point out, RV Liberty, RV Louisville, NC State, RV North Florida, No. 3 Oklahoma Point out, Penn State, South Carolina, UCF, UNCG and Virginia.
Are living scoring will be available equally days at Golfstat.com.
