Patrick Martin and the Commodores golf team embarks on the NCAA Championships on Friday
The Vanderbilt Commodores golf team starts play in the NCAA Championships this Friday, may 26th in the NCAA Championships. The Commodores have made the Match Play quarterfinals the last 2 years and hope to extend that all the way to the national title this year, but there is a lot of work to do to get to that point.
The Championships are being held at Rich Harvest Farms golf course in Sugar Grove, Illinois, about 50 miles from Chicago. The course is 7,300 yards and plays to a par 72.
The Championships take place from this Friday, May 26th-until Wednesday, May 31st when a national champion is crowned. Friday through Sunday are 3 rounds of 18 holes each day with the 30 teams in the field playing. After the third round Sunday, 15 teams make it to Monday and the fourth day of stroke play. After the fourth round of 18 holes, the 8 lowest scoring teams qualify for the match play. The quarterfinals and semifinals of match play take place Tuesday morning and afternoon, and the 2 winners play in the National championship match on Wednesday, May 31. Along with us, SEC teams Ole Miss, LSU, Alabama and Auburn are competing. No.1 USC and No.2 Oklahoma State are also competing. There is a plethora of talent in these championships. We’ll have to be at our best.
VU coach Scott Limbaugh says the team just needs to be who they’ve been all year. Scott said he and assistant coach Dusty Smith have asked the team to be their best every day, every round, every tournament, and the guys have responded each time out. We won the SEC Championship on some amazingly clutch play, so we have it in ourselves to go a long way, even go the distance and emerge as national champions. But Coach Limbaugh and his players are focused on Friday and getting off to a stellar start. Sophomore stud Patrick Martin, stellar senior Matthias Schwab, junior Theo Humphrey, sophomore Will Gordon and clutch freshman John Augenstein, who got the clutch victories in the final two days of the SEC ,Championship will be ready. This team always is. The NCAA regional championship got away from us on a massively windy final day. We just didn’t have our best that day. But I expect our best at Rich Harvest Farms.
Will keep you posted throughout. Go Vandy!
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Lots of SEC teams in it: Ole Miss, LSU, Vandy, Auburn and Alabama are in the field. I like Vandy and Patrick Martin to do well. Will be pulling for Auburn to do well. Not sure if Auburn, Alabama or Ole Miss has the fire power at the top of their teams to make a big run, but Auburn and Alabama both have solid depth. Should be a fun tournament.
Should be Brownie