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No. 3 Alabama Men's Golf Ready to Compete at Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate Invitational
10/18/2018 2:20:00 PM | Men's Golf
Crimson Tide set to play in fourth tournament of the fall season
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama men's golf team will travel to Alpharetta, Ga. to take part in the 2018 Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate Invitational (GCOGC). The event will be held Friday through Sunday, at the par-72, 7,017-yard Golf Club of Georgia.
This weekend's tournament will be Alabama's first since claiming the team title at the Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate on Oct. 7-8. With the win, the Crimson Tide, who is ranked No. 3 nationally in the Golfweek Coaches Poll and No. 5 in the Golfstat.com Poll, improved its fall record to an impressive 33-5-0.
This year will be the team's fourth appearance in the GCOGC and its first since 2009, when Bud Cauley claimed medalist honors and the team recorded a fifth-place finish. The Tide's best result at the tournament was in 2008 when they finished in third place.
Eleven teams in the 14-team field are ranked in the Golfstat top-50 rankings. Four of the eight ranked teams are in the current top-10, including second-ranked Duke, No. 3 host team Georgia Tech and No. 9 Wake Forest.
Other ranked teams participating are No. 11 USC, No. 13 Texas A&M, No. 15 Clemson, No. 28 Stanford, No. 34 Florida State, No. 39 Virginia and No. 45 TCU. Also participating in this weekend's event are East Tennessee State, New Mexico and UCLA.
The Tide's lineup is led by senior Davis Riley and sophomores Davis Shore and Wilson Furr. Also competing for the team will be a pair of freshmen in Prescott Butler and Frankie Capan.
Alabama will begin play on Friday at 9:25 a.m. CT on Hole No. 1, grouped with Georgia Tech and Texas A&M. Live scoring can be followed at www.golfstat.com.
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