Falcons Open Spring Season In Florida With Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play

Dade City, Fla. – The BGSU Men's Golf team will open its spring schedule Feb. 11 when they travel to Dade City, Florida and compete in the Earl Yestingsmeier match play hosted by Ball State. Bowling Green won the event, formally known as the Mid-American Match Play, in 2013.

The Falcons are coming off of a fall campaign where they finished in the top seven in four of five tournaments they competed, including a fourth place finish at the Sam Hall Intercollegiate and a third place finish at the Fuzzy Zoeller Invitational.

Some standout individual performances included Rodrigue Vie winning the MAC Men's Golfer of the Week on Sept. 13. Vie shot -7 over three rounds at the Fuzzy Zoeller Invitational to finish fourth out of 75 golfers at the event. His 67-73-69-209 was the top BG result and he led the team to a third place finish out of 13 teams, including defeating MAC-rival Toledo. Pablo Heredia Iglesias had two top ten finishes in the fall campaign, finishing T-4th at the Sam Hall Intercollegiate and finishing T-10th at the Dayton Flyer Invitational.

Tournament Format
Host: Ball State University
Dates: Feb. 11-12
Location: Dade City, Florida
Course Info: Lake Jovita South Course; Par 72 -- 7,153 Yards
Tournament Field (seed in parenthesis) (1) Eastern Michigan (2) Miami (3) Ball State (4) Bowling Green (5) Ohio (6) DePaul (7) Drake (8) Loyola Chicago

The two-day event will consist of 54 holes of match play competition. Teams are seeded 1-8 based upon Golfstat rankings and then placed into a bracket. All teams are guaranteed three matches with losing teams from the first and second rounds continuing to compete in a consolation bracket. Each team match will consist of six individual matches. Lineup order for each team is based upon individual player Golfweek rankings, with the top-rated player in the No. 1 position and so on.

Schedule of Events
Monday, Feb. 11 First and Second Rounds (8:30 a.m. shotgun start; continuous play)
Tuesday, Feb. 12 Third Round (8:30 a.m. shotgun start)

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Up Next
The Falcons will compete in the Colleton River Collegiate Tournament hosted by Michigan State in Bluffton, South Carolina on March 4-5.

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