ROCK HILL, SC—Winthrop men's golf will play in its fourth of five fall events this week when it heads to Outer Banks to tee it up in the ODU/OBX Intercollegiate hosted by Old Dominion University. The tournament will be contested October 21-23 as the Eagles will make their first trip back to the ODU/OBX Intercollegiate since they finished 4
th in 2011.
Event: ODU/OBX Intercollegiate
Dates: Sunday-Tuesday, October 21-23, 2018
Location: Outer Banks, NC
Course: Kilmarlic Golf Club (Par 72, 6550 Yards)
Format: 54-Hole Tournament (18 Holes each day)
Live Scoring: BirdieFire
Tee Times: Tee times beginning at 8 a.m. each day
Field: Akron, Campbell, Delaware, Drake, George Mason, Georgetown, Hartford, Longwood, Manhattan, North Dakota State, Old Dominion, Nebraska- Omaha, Towson, UNC-Wilmington, Winthrop
Weather Forecast: Sunday, high of 59 degrees (sunny/wind); Monday, high of 60 degrees (sunny); Tuesday, high of 67 degrees (partly cloudy)
A GLANCE AT THE EAGLES
- This is Winthrop's first trip back to Kilmarlic since 2011
- Winthrop is one of three Big South teams in the field (Campbell and Longwood)
- Four Eagles currently have 18-hole stroke averages that are lower than any from a Winthrop player in the 2017-18 season
- Sawyer Mills is coming off a Top 10 finish at the Health Plan Mountaineer Invitational, where he tied the lowest round of the season by a Winthrop player in the first round by shooting 68
- The Eagles finished sixth at the Health Plan Mountaineer Invitational, which was their best finish in a tournament since finishing fifth at the Big South Championship in 2017
WINTHROP LINEUP
- Sawyer Mills
- Michael McKee
- Ryan Tattan
- Zak Butt
- Tyler Koch
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