Dawgs Open Season By Hosting Husky Invitational
September 18, 2015 | Men's Golf
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2015 Husky Invitational |
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Monday to Tuesday, September 21-22, 2015 |
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| Tumble Creek Club | Par 71 - 6887 Yards | Suncadia, Washington | |||
| University of Washington | |||
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Play Five, Score Four | ||
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UW, Boise State, BYU, Gonzaga, Idaho, Minnesota, Oregon, Oregon State, Sacramento State, Seattle U., UC Davis, USC, Utah, Washington State. |
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| Live Scoring at TC | Live Scoring at Prospector | Twitter | Facebook | |||
BREMERTON, Wash. -- The Washington men's golf season begins on Monday when the Dawgs host the Husky Invitational at the Suncadia Resort just outside of Cle Elum, Wash. The Husky Invitational will be a five players, score four team tournament at Tumble Creek Club, but the weekend will also feature the Husky Individual at Suncadia's Prospector Golf Course.
The tournament includes 36 holes on Monday, Sept. 21, followed by and 18-hole final round on Tuesday, Sept. 22. The Invitational will be played in the 6,887-yard Tumble Creek that plays as a par 71. There will also be a separate Individual Tournament played on the par-72 Prospector Golf Course that plays 7,112 yards.
The Dawgs are one of three ranked teams in the field according to the Golf Coaches Association of America preseason poll. USC is the top-ranked team coming in at No. 5, while Oregon is No. 15 and the Huskies are No. 19. The rest of the field includes Boise State, BYU, Gonzaga, Idaho, Minnesota, Oregon State, Sacramento State, Seattle U., UC Davis, Utah and Washington State.
The Huskies will go with a lineup of Corey Pereira, champion of the Steve Lane Invitational, followed by Jordan Lu, Jonathan Sanders, Matt Marrese and Frank Garber. Chris Babcock, Tyler Salsbury, Kevin Kwon, Greg Gildea and Spencer Weiss will play in the Husky Individual at Prospector.
The Huskies return four players from last year's team that finished tied for 15th at the NCAA Championships. The headliners are senior Jonathan Sanders and junior Corey Pereira who will take on the leadership role now that Cheng-Tsung Pan has graduated and is out winning tournaments as a professional.
Sanders is a former Regional champion and two-time winner for the Dawgs, while Pereira won twice over the summer as an amateur at the Sahalee Players Championship and the Sierra Players Invitational.
Other returners are sophomore Frank Garber and junior Kevin Kwon who played at NCAA's last season, along with senior Chris Babcock who was a member of the 2014 NCAA squad. Senior Tyler Salsbury also has plenty of experience in the Husky lineup, while Greg Gildea and Spencer Weiss look to make an impact after solid freshmen seasons.
The newcomers are freshmen Yechun (Carl) Yuan and Matt Marrese, both who have the potential to make an immediate impact. Yuan is one of the top players to enter college in the country, already with a European PGA Tour event under his belt in China. Marrese is the top local product, coming from Sammamish High School in Bellevue.
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Washington Starting Lineup |
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| Corey Pereira | Jordan Lu | Jonathan Sanders |
Matt Marrese | Frank Garber |
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Off The Tee |
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This is the 15th season under head coach Matt Thurmond. He has led the Dawgs to seven top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships.
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Washington returns five players that have played at the NCAA Championships, including Jonathan Sanders and Corey Pereira who have experience in multiple years.
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Washington was ranked 19th in the Golf Coaches Association of America preseason poll.
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Cheng-Tsung Pan and his Husky record eight tournament wins is gone, but the Dawgs have three other players who have won college tournaments: Corey Pereira, Jonathan Sanders and Frank Garber.
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The Husky Invitational will be the only home tournament for the Dawgs this season.
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The Huskies won two tournaments last season, the Lamkpin San Diego Classic and the Redhawk Invitational at Chambers Bay.
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About This Week's Tournament |
The Husky Invitational is the annual tournament hosted by Washington to begin the season, but this is the first year it is being hosted at Suncadia. The Dawgs had won the past four Husky Invitationals, before Oregon and UCLA tied for the title last season. Jake Knapp of UCLA won the Husky Invitational title with the Dawgs Cheng-Tsung Pan winning the two previous seasons.
The Tumble Creek Club is a private community located within the Suncadia Resort in Cle Elum, Washington. Suncadia is a 54-hole Resort, four season mountain destination resort that encompasses 6,400 acres only 80 miles from the heart of Seattle.
Tumble Creek Club opened in 2005 and was designed by the renowned golf course architect, Tom Doak. The layout was modeled after the great parkland style golf clubs of the Northeast with the signature natural element to Tom Doak's design philosophy, taking care to emphasize the natural assets in the land.
The course is lined with native Douglass Fir and Ponderosa Pine trees and flows with the rolling mountain topography. Tumble Creek Club includes beautifully manicured bent grass fairways, 100 natural edge bunkers and green shapes with significant movement, designed to perfectly blend into the Northwest landscape. The strategy of the course lends to birdie and bogey opportunities with variety in length and difficulty of holes.
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