CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson will be one of 14 teams competing in the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate at The Golf Club of Georgia in Alpharetta, Ga. this weekend. The tournament runs Friday, October 16 through Sunday, October 18 with each team playing 18 holes per day.
The field includes six ACC schools. In addition to Clemson, Duke, Stanford, Boston College, Virginia and host school 15th ranked Georgia Tech will be in the field. Big Ten schools Southern California, UCLA and Northwestern will be joined by Loyola Marymount, UAB, Pepperdine, Charlotte and Georgia Southern.
Clemson is coming off a 2-1 record at the Barbara Nicklaus Cup October 5-6, wins over Michigan and Ohio State and a loss to Charlotte. The Tigers are ranked 24th in the first Scoreboard college rankings.
Clemson’s lineup this weekend will be led by Oscar Valdemar Holm Bredkjær who has a 70.67 stroke average through two stroke-play events. He was 1-1-1 at the Nicklaus match play and is currently ranked as the #25 player in the nation by Scoreboard. He finished second at the season opening Inverness Collegiate.
Senior Hampton Roberts will be the number-two player in the Clemson lineup. He is coming off a 2-1 match play record at the Nicklaus Cup and has a 72.83 stroke average through two stroke play events. The transfer from North Carolina was Clemson’s best player at the Bryan Brothers Collegiate with a ninth-place finish.
David McBrien is second on the Tigers team in stroke average at 71.33 and he was Clemson’s best player at the Nicklaus Cup with a 2-0-1 record. The freshman from Holly Springs, N.C. was a top 80 player in the nation as a senior in high school, the number-three player in North Carolina.
The Clemson lineup also will include Gabriel Holtz. The freshman has a 72.00 stroke average with a pair of rounds in the 60s. Rich Wills also will be in the lineup at the Golf Club of Georgia. The junior has a 75.17 average and is coming off a victory in is last match against Ohio State’s Giedrius Mackelis.
Biagio Gagliardi will play the event as an individual. He posted a 1-1-1 record at the Nicklaus Cup.
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