CLEMSON, S.C. — The Clemson men’s golf team will travel to Jacksonville, Fla. this weekend to compete in The Hayt Collegiate at Sawgrass Country Club. Sixteen teams will compete for the championship of the tournament that will be played March 7-9.
This will be Clemson’s first trip to The Hayt since March of 2021 when Clemson won the tournament with a 19-under par score of 845.
The field includes three of the top six teams in the nation, as #1 Virginia, #2 Auburn and #6 LSU headline the field that includes five ACC teams and four from the SEC. The ACC teams in the field include #20 Duke, #31 Louisville, #40 Clemson, #17 North Carolina, and the top ranked Virginia Cavaliers.
The SEC teams in the field include #2 Auburn, #6 LSU, #15 Alabama and #49 South Carolina. This will the be the second tournament the Tigers and the Gamecocks have been in the same field. Clemson finished ahead of South Carolina in the first meeting.
Clemson’s lineup will include one senior, one freshman, one junior and two sophomores.
Senior Lucas Augustsson will be in the number-one position in Jordan Byrd’s Clemson lineup. Augustsson has a 73.12 stroke average for his six tournaments and 17 rounds so far this year. He leads the team in rounds in the 60s with five and is tied for the team lead in under-par rounds with five. He had consecutive top 10 finishes earlier in the season at The Honor Course and the Bryan Brothers.
Oscar Bredkjaer is a junior transfer from the University of San Francisco. He has the top stroke average on the team so far this year with a 72.14 figure for 14 rounds. Bredkjaer has four rounds in the 60s and six total rounds at par or better,. He also had a seventh place finish at the Bryan Brothers Intercollegiate in September.
Sophomores Rich Wills and Colin Salema also will be in the Clemson lineup. Wills is second on the team in stroke average with a 72.80 stroke average for his 15 rounds. He is tied for the team lead in rounds at par or better with six. Wills had a 10th-place finish at the Marquette Invitational to help Clemson win the team championship.
Salema has a 74.06 stroke average for his 18 rounds. He leads the team in even-par rounds. His third-place finish at Marquette is the best finish of the year by any Clemson golfer.
Freshman Jackson Byrd will play in his third tournament of the year when he tees it up at The Hayt. His best finish is a 20th place as an individual at the Myrtle Beach Invitation last September.
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