This is the 3rd year RU has hosted and Johnny-O sponsored the 54 Hole event on St Simon's Island, Ga. There are 3 courses with the 7016yd Par 72 Plantation Course being the venue in 2023 and 2024. For those familiar with the PGA Tour's RSM Classic, this is the course it's played on. The course was originally a 1928 Walter Travis design, remodeled in 2019 by Davis Love.
In '24 the Knights finished 7th out of 14 after finishing 6th in '23.
This year's 13 team field is not nearly as strong as previous years At #50, Kansas is the only Top 50 team. Last year the field was headed by 4 Top 50, led by at the time, #16 Illinois, #19 Texas, and Notre Dame who won the tourney by 10 strokes. Instead, along with the Jayhawks there are 5 teams ranked 51-75. For them every finish is important with time starting to run out, all 5 could be looking at a possible NCAA bid with strong finishes to their season which ends by later in April. You usually don't want to be any lower than #70 and have to sweat out lower level conf tourneys. 81 teams make the Rgionals, 30 Auto Bids and 51 At Large.
At #131, Rutgers is the 12th ranked team in the field, only ahead of #147 PSU. Other B1G teams entered are #56 Mich St and #85 Nebraska. Other team include #51 Marquette, #94 WVU, #67 Cincy, and #72 Princeton. I may be forgetting one but believe this is the first time in years RU and PU will be competing against each other at the same event. Princeton has 2 Freshman who were prized recruits, one being the younger brother of the Tours' Max Greyserman
Rutgers has not yet posted the 5 who will play in the team event or if they will have anyone competing as an individual.
With #14 Austin McCullough not playing again this week for Mich St, the top 100 ranked players entered are #54 Pattrick Adler (Marquette) and #95 Gunnar Broin (Kansas). At #412, Senior Weston Jones is Rutgers' highest ranked player.
In '24 the Knights finished 7th out of 14 after finishing 6th in '23.
This year's 13 team field is not nearly as strong as previous years At #50, Kansas is the only Top 50 team. Last year the field was headed by 4 Top 50, led by at the time, #16 Illinois, #19 Texas, and Notre Dame who won the tourney by 10 strokes. Instead, along with the Jayhawks there are 5 teams ranked 51-75. For them every finish is important with time starting to run out, all 5 could be looking at a possible NCAA bid with strong finishes to their season which ends by later in April. You usually don't want to be any lower than #70 and have to sweat out lower level conf tourneys. 81 teams make the Rgionals, 30 Auto Bids and 51 At Large.
At #131, Rutgers is the 12th ranked team in the field, only ahead of #147 PSU. Other B1G teams entered are #56 Mich St and #85 Nebraska. Other team include #51 Marquette, #94 WVU, #67 Cincy, and #72 Princeton. I may be forgetting one but believe this is the first time in years RU and PU will be competing against each other at the same event. Princeton has 2 Freshman who were prized recruits, one being the younger brother of the Tours' Max Greyserman
Rutgers has not yet posted the 5 who will play in the team event or if they will have anyone competing as an individual.
With #14 Austin McCullough not playing again this week for Mich St, the top 100 ranked players entered are #54 Pattrick Adler (Marquette) and #95 Gunnar Broin (Kansas). At #412, Senior Weston Jones is Rutgers' highest ranked player.
