The William & Mary men's golf team returns home this week, hosting the 43rd Annual Golden Horseshoe Intercollegiate on Monday and Tuesday, March 29-30.  The tournament will be hosted on the Golden Horseshoe's iconic Gold Course, in the middle of Colonial Williamsburg, and can be followed via live results on GolfStat.com and TribeAthletics.com.

Live Results

The Tournament
W&M has been hosting a spring men's golf tournament since 1978, and this will be the fifth time that the event has been held at the Golden Horseshoe.  In 2001, 2002, and 2005, the tournament was held on the Green Course, before returning in 2019 on the Gold Course.  The Gold Course also hosted the NCAA Men's Golf Championships in 2007, and the Colonial Athletic Association Men's Championship in 2008.

This year, the tournament will include 54 holes, with teams playing 36 holes beginning with a 9 a.m. shotgun start on Monday and another 18 hole shotgun start beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday.  The course will play par-70 and 6,799 yards, and was renovated in 2017 by Rees Jones to update a classic 1963 Robert Trent Jones design.

In addition to William & Mary, 15 other teams will be playing the event, including Georgetown, Richmond, St. Joseph's, Old Dominion, VCU, St. Bonaventure's, Longwood, Radford, Temple, Drexel, George Washington, Delaware, St. Francis (Pa.), Washington & Lee, and Howard.  Especially of note, the Howard Bison will be playing its first tournament in program history.

Scouting the Tribe
W&M is coming off two solid showings to open the 2021 season, finishing ninth at the Ross Collegiate Classic and fifth at the Bash at the Beach.  For this week, the Tribe will have a full five-player scoring line-up, as well as three individuals.  W&M will be looking for its fourth team title in the event, and first since head coach Tim Pemberton '05 led the 2005 squad to the championship.

The scoring line-up will feature each of W&M's top five players through the first two tournaments.  Sophomore Jimmy Taylor (Alexandria, Va.) is averaging 73.67 strokes per round, and had a ninth-place finish in the season opener earlier this month.  Junior Matthew Feinstein (McLean, Va.) is just behind him with a 73.83 average, and has also posted a 104-37 (.738) head-to-head record.  Grad transfer Preston Ball (Raleigh, N.C.) will be just a few thousand feet away from his normal daily home, the William & Mary Law School, and will be looking to improve up his 75.33 stroke average.  Sophomore Trevor Binau (Columbus, Ohio) is also averaging 75.33 strokes per round, and has the Tribe's best single round so far in 2021 with a 69 (-3) coming in the final round at the Ross Collegiate Classic.

Rounding out the scoring line-up will be freshman Matt Epstein (Hopkinton, Mass.), who made his collegiate debut at the Bash at the Beach with a 231 (+15), averaging 77.0 per round.  Playing as individuals will be junior Jack Grier (Chicago, Ill.), who also played at the Ross Collegiate Classic, as well as freshman Will Rieck (Franklin, Tenn.) and grad student Garrett deFisser (Gilbert, Ariz.).