ROCK HILL, SC—Winthrop men's golf is back on the links when it travels to Greenville, SC to play in a competitive field at The Furman Intercollegiate.
Event: The Furman Intercollegiate
Dates: Friday-Sunday, Mar. 21-23, 2019
Location: Greenville, SC
Course: Furman University Golf Course (Par 71, 6,994 yards)
Format: 54-Hole Tournament (Friday-18 holes / Saturday-18 holes / Sunday-18 holes)
Live Scoring: Golfstat.com
Tee Times: Friday, 1:10 p.m., Hole 1 / Saturday, 9:10 a.m., Hole 10 / Sunday, 9 a.m. shotgun, TBD)
Field: Akron, Charleston Southern, Cincinnati, Coastal Carolina, Dartmouth, Davidson, Francis Marion, Furman, Georgia State, High Point, Marshall, Minnesota, Presbyterian College, Samford, USC Aiken, USC Upstate, Virginia Tech, Wichita State, Winthrop, Wofford College, Yale
Weather Forecast: Friday, sunny, 71 degrees, W 12mph | Saturday, mostly sunny, 70 degrees, N 5mph | partly cloudy, 75 degrees, SE 6mph
A GLANCE AT THE EAGLES
- This is the 50th Annual Furman Intercollegiate as the Eagles participate in the event for the second straight season
- Winthrop finished T13 with Dartmouth in last year's tournament
- Senior Sawyer Mills led the Eagles with a T32 as he was +6
- Eagles will be matched up with Wichita State and Georgia State for the first two rounds while the third round groupings will be bases upon position after 36 holes
- Mills leads the Eagles in scoring at 73.06 while Ryan Tattan is next at 74.29 and Michael McKee is averaging 74.57
- Tattan leads the team with rounds under par at six, Mills is next at five while McKee and Zak Butt have four each
- Mills is averaging 70.5 in his final round of events this season and has been under par in the final round in 4-of-6 he's played
- In the last event Noah Peterson tied his career-low of 2-under with a second round 68
WINTHROP LINEUP
- Sawyer Mills
- Ryan Tattan
- Noah Peterson
- Michael McKee
- Rohan Boettcher
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