TEXARKANA, Ark. – The Florida Atlantic University men's golf team heads to Western Arkansas on Monday for the Conference USA Championship. The Owls, coming off a win in their last event, will be the fourth-highest ranked team in the field according to GolfStat rankings. The tournament will feature 13 teams and 65 competitors.
Texarkana Country Club will play as a 6,969-yard par-72. The course features 10 par-fours, four par-fives, and four par-threes. TCC is located about an hour north of Shreveport, La. on the Arkansas-Texas border. Other than the 2020 event which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Texarkana CC has hosted the C-USA Championship every year since 2014.
The field of 65 individuals will feature five players ranked in the Top 150 by GolfStat
- No. 48 Dongjin Park (Charlotte)
- No. 87 Matt Sharpstene (Charlotte)
- No. 90 Khavish Varadan (UAB)
- No. 111 Ben Woodruff (Charlotte)
- No. 133 Nick Robillard (UAB)
- Charlotte (No. 28)
- UAB (No. 54)
- Middle Tennessee (No. 71)
- Florida Atlantic (No. 77)
- UTSA (No. 80)
- North Texas (No. 82)
- Southern Miss. (No. 83)
- Louisiana Tech. (No. 102)
- UTEP (No. 150)
- Rice (No. 155)
- Marshall (No. 166)
- Old Dominion (No. 178)
- WKU (No. 195)
The C-USA Championship will consist of 54 holes of stroke play (18 per day, Monday-Wednesday). On Thursday, the top four finishing teams will compete in a seeded match play playoff to determine a team champion.
- Alex Maguire
- Earned his first win at the Bayou City Collegiate two weeks ago in Houston
- Finished fourth at the Southern Invitational in Lake Worth, Fla. on March 15
- 71.65 scoring average is a team-best
- Finished tied for 31st in this event last season
- Max Sturdza
- Three straight Top 25s entering the C-USA Championship
- Best finish was a solo second at the Southern Invitational
- 72.33 scoring average
- Tied with Maguire for 31st at last year's event
- Juan Delgado
- Two Top 25s this season
- Best finish was T13 at the Florida Gators VyStar Invitational in mid-February
- 73.14 scoring average
- Jake Hibbert
- Finished Top 20 in two of his last three events
- Tied for 11th last time out at the Bayou City Collegiate, capped off by a final round 68 (-4)
- 73.71 scoring average
- Guilherme Grinberg
- Tied for 15th at the White Sands Bahamas Invitational in October
- 73.27 scoring average
The Conference USA Champion will receive the League's automatic bid to the NCAA Men's Golf Regionals. The individual medalist will also receive a bid to Regionals if they are not on the championship team.
Monday, April 25
Update, 10:30 am EST: tee times have been moved back due to inclement
1:10 pm –
Guilherme Grinberg
1:18 pm –
Jake Hibbert
1:26 pm –
Juan Delgado
1:34 pm –
Max Sturdza
1:42 pm –
Alex Maguire
Team Leaderboard
Individual Leaderboard
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