WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – William & Mary men's golf returns to action when it hosts the Golden Horseshoe Intercollegiate on Monday and Tuesday.
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The Tournament
W&M has hosted a spring men's golf tournament since 1978, and this will be the sixth 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 and 2021 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-71 and 6,817 yards, and was renovated in 2017 by Rees Jones to update a classic 1963 Robert Trent Jones design.
In addition to William & Mary, 12 other teams will be playing the event, including Fairleigh Dickinson, George Mason, Georgetown, Longwood, Old Dominion, Penn, St. Bonaventure, St. Francis (PA), St. Joseph's, Towson, Villanova and Washington & Lee
The Tribe will have two teams competing at the event. W&M's first group is graduate student
Ethan Mangum, senior
Matthew Feinstein, junior
Jimmy Taylor, freshman
Logan Hunter and junior
Trevor Binau. The Green and Gold's second team for the event includes redshirt freshman
Jake Newman, sophomores
Matt Epstein and
Will Rieck, freshman
Scott Hanna and senior
Jack Grier.
Last Time Out
- W&M, which finished ninth, shot a 4-over par 292 on the final day of the Forest Creek Collegiate, which was shortened to 36 holes due to weather, on March 13. The second-round score was the third-best round of the day and ranked fourth overall in the event's two rounds.
- Feinstein led the Tribe in a share of 26th thanks to a 6-over par 150. He fired a 1-under par 71 in the second round, one of 15 rounds under par on day two.
News and Notes
- On Thursday, Mangum was W&M institutional honoree for the Colonial Athletic Association's male Scholar-Athlete of the Year award. Mangum is pursuing his graduate degree in public policy at W&M.
- Mangum was named the inaugural Pathway Player at the Genesis Invitational, earning a spot in the Collegiate Showcase. Competing in the loaded field on Feb. 14, the Tribe graduate student sat atop of the leaderboard after three-straight birdies to open the round. He eventually finished in 11th with a 75.
- Mangum was ranked No. 1 in the first update of the APGA Collegiate Ranking, which is a partnership between PGA TOUR University presented by Velocity Global and the APGA Tour, for the 2021-22 season following the fall season. The APGA Collegiate Ranking. Eligible players are Black golfers from NCAA Division I, II or III programs – including HBCUs. The APGA Collegiate Ranking is based on players' Golfstat adjusted scoring average, designed to evaluate the top players positioned to qualify for APGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament access.
- Though six events, Mangum leads the Tribe with a stroke average of 74.06 followed closely by Feinstein at 74.40 and Hunter at 74.88. Hunter's freshman average ranks ninth in school history.
- During the fall, the Tribe fired a school-record 14-under 850 over the 54-hole VCU Shootout, Sept. 13-14, finishing in a share of third place. On day one, W&M shot the second-best 36-hole total of 10-under 566, which included the second-best 18-hole score of 10-under 278 in round two. The Tribe's third-round score of four-under 284 was the 12th-best 18-hole score in program history.
