The Flat – Georgia Tech’s No. 8 golf team heads to Fort Worth, Texas Monday and Tuesday for the Ben Hogan University Invitational at Colonial Country Club.
28 years old directed by Bruce Hepplerth Tech team returns with all five starters from 12-finishing 2021-22 teamsth In the NCAA Championship, he played twice this fall season, finishing fourth at the Maui Jim Inter-College in Arizona and runner-up at the Inverness Inter-College in Toledo, Ohio.Junior Christ Lamprecht He earned his first college tournament victory at Inverness, winning by two shots at 7-under 206.
Tournament information – The Yellow Jackets will be competing in the Ben Hogan University Invitational for the first time. Hosted by TCU, the tournament will consist of 36 holes on Mondays with a shotgun start at 8:15am. Tuesday’s 18-hole round starts at 8am with his 1st hole and his 10th.
The 7,204-yard, par-70 Colonial Country Club has hosted an annual PGA TOUR event since 1946. The club was founded in 1936 and hosted the 1941 US Open, the 1975 Tournament Players Championship and the 1991 US Women’s Open. The course is located on the banks of the Trinity River, less than a mile from the TCU campus.
Ben Hogan’s event will feature 14 teams from the 2022 NCAA Championship. This includes all eight teams that have advanced to match play. Thirteen of the 16 teams currently rank in the top 25 nationally, according to a September 30 Bushnell/Golf Week Coaches poll. The complete field (with current Bushnell/Golfweek coach rankings) – Vanderbilt (1), Oklahoma (2), Stanford (t3), Arizona State (6), Texas Tech (7), Georgia Tech (8), Florida (10), Oklahoma State (11), North Carolina (13) ), Georgia (17), Texas (19), Wake Forest (t21), Pepperdine (25), Oregon (29), Southern California, TCU.
Christ Lamprecht won Inverness Inter-College and led the Yellow Jackets to the runners-up. (Photo by Stacey McBride)
Technology lineup – All five starters are back from a team that finished 12 timesth At the 2022 NCAA Championships, they won five tournaments and earned a final Top 10 national ranking. Georgia Tech is ranked 3rd by Golf Channel and 4th by Golfweek Magazine, and in his first in-season he finished 6th. Bushnell coach poll.
Heppler has leveraged his three seniors to assemble one of his deepest and most experienced teams. Bartley Forrester (Gainesville, Ga.), Conner Howe (Ogden, Utah) When Ross Steelman (Columbia, Missouri) together Christ Lamprecht, a junior from George, South Africa. Combined with the quartet a year ago he had 19 top 10 finishes, with Lamprecht and Steelman each in his six top ten finishes. Calusa, with his Cup winning share and the team’s only individual title, Forrester has four top-10 finishes and won the NCAA Championship (15).th place).
However, qualifying for Tech’s first three events was fierce, leading to three very different starting lineups. Only Howe and Lamprecht start all three of his events, while Forrester and the freshman join Ben in his Hogan event. Hiroshi Tai (Singapore) When Aidan Tran (Fresno, Calif.).
Let’s take a quick look at this week’s Yellow Jackets, ranked in order of their lineup.
Let’s take a quick look at this week’s Yellow Jackets, ranked in order of their lineup.
Christo Lamprecht (Junior, George, South Africa) – All-ACC player returning to pre-season 3rd Team All-American … Earns first college win (206, -7) at last Inverness Inter-College, wins by 2 strokes … advances to Round 2 of Match Play in Europe The US Amateur, tied for 9th in the Amateur Championship, represented South Africa in the World Amateur Team Championship, competing for an international team that won this summer’s Arnold Palmer Cup…39th in WAGR…tied for 44th.th Maui Jim Intercollegiate (-1) with an at-bat average of 68.33.
Conner Howe (Sr., Ogden, Utah) – 31st in the latest PGA Tour College Rankings, 59th in the World Amateur Golf Rankings… 3rd and 14th in the Maui Jim Intercollegiateth At the Inverness Intercollegiate … 5th year senior to capitalize on the year of COVID after finishing 85th in the 2021-22 Golfstat rankings … 6 top 10 finishes in the last 2 years and an average of 2021 At-bats hit a career-low 70.94 – 22 … current average of 69.00 over 6 rounds … tied at 10th Tohoku amateur 18th placeth at the Monroe Invitational last summer.
Bartley Forrester (Sr., Gainesville, GA) – 75th in WAGR and 23rd in PGA Tour College Rankings …returning to All-ACC Player and named All-American after ranking 81st in Golfstat late last spring… NCAA Championship (15th), last spring he had four top 10 finishes, including a title share at the Carsa Cup…this summer he won the Monroe Invitational and tied for sixth at the Southern Amateur…at the US Amateur advanced to the second round of match play for… 2 wins in his college career (2020 Puerto Rico Classic, 2022 Calusa Cup)th Place it on the Maui Jim.
Hiroshi Tai (new student, Singapore) – Playing your second event as a member of the starting line-up since winning a contested individual event at Maui Gym Intercollege (-14) … tied at 24th Location of Inverness Intercollegiate … Enrolled with Tech last January after 22 months of service in the Singapore Navy … Graduated from Prep in Windermere, Florida in November 2020 prior to military service … Asian tour cut (T44 ) defeated former Tech star and 2019 US Amateur Champion Andy Ogletree at the International Series event in Singapore in August … tied for 58th place with Singaporeth at the World Amateur Team Championship.
Aidan Tran (freshman in Fresno, CA) – Started as a freshman at Tech’s first event in 2022-23 at Maui Gym Intercollegiate and finished tied for 24thth Ranking: 39th by the U.S. Junior Golf Association at graduation last May, 35th in the Golf Week/Sagarin Boys Rankings: Entered match play in U.S. Junior Amateurs: 3 wins and 8 Top 10s Juniors from 2018 Finish by category.
Directed by Bruce Heppler
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