Males’s Golf to Host Colonel Shootout on Thursday, Friday
EKU is internet hosting its first Colonel Shootout, previously referred to as the EKU Intercollegiate, in over two seasons resulting from extreme climate and the COVID-19 pandemic. EKU’s final displaying got here in 2021 the place the Colonels positioned fifth out of 16 groups and have been led by Lake Leroux, who shot two-under to tie for a sixth-place end.
Thursday’s Colonel Shootout is the primary residence event underneath head coach Justin Tereshko.
This week’s residence opener at The College Membership at Arlington is the primary NCAA Division I 54-hole event of the season and can play at par-72 over 5,986 yards. Format for the occasion will likely be 36 steady holes on Thursday, with an extra 18 holes on Friday to find out the winners.
EKU is scheduled to tee off at 8:30 a.m. on the entrance 9, followers can comply with alongside on Spikemark, the NCAA’s new scoring associate for reside scoring updates and the total staff/particular person leaderboards.
Tereshko submitted a beginning lineup consisting of Pablo Carrascosa Vivas, Justin Begley, Reese Sexton, Kannon Tucker, and Zach Watterson.
EKU can have 12 whole student-athletes taking part in within the occasion, as Jason Kolbas, Deacon Pinson, Camden Robertson, Isaac Meador, Malik Dao, Joe Benton, and Gehrig Sexton are listed as particular person members. The seven people are scheduled to tee off on holes 13-18 starting at 8:30 a.m.
Tucker, Watterson, Kolbas, Pinson, and Meador are making their first profession look for the Colonels. Begley enters his second season within the maroon after being chosen to the ASUN Convention All-Freshman staff final yr.
Different collaborating colleges within the discipline consists of Alabama State, Austin Peay, Bellarmine, Belmont, Butler (People solely), Campbellsville Harrodsburg, Chicago State, IUPUI, Northern Kentucky, Purdue Fort Wayne, Robert Morris, and Tennessee State. The ultimate discipline consists of 13 colleges and 92 members.
The Colonel Shootout marks the primary event of the 2023-24 season for EKU, who’s scheduled to compete in seven occasions this fall from late August to early November.
