BGSU Concludes Regular Season With Elite Playing Field In Alabama

Shoal Creek, Alabama – The BGSU men's Golf team will wrap up their regular season with a trip down south to compete in the Shoal Creek Invitational, hosted by Auburn University. The event will be the toughest playing field the Falcons have been a part of this season.

There are five teams in Golf Stat's top 25 playing in this event in LSU, Auburn, North Florida, Tennessee and Alabama (rankings as of 4/10/19). The tournament will be held at Shoal Creek Golf Club, which was designed by Jack Nicklaus and played host to the 2018 U.S Women's Open.

In seven of the eight tournaments the Falcons have played in, there has been at least one Falcon that has finished in the top 20. Rodrigue Vie posted the best score of any Falcon this year last week at the Ryman Hospitality Intercollegiate. Vie had a total score of -1 (69-72- 141), placing him T-3 overall. Collectively, BGSU finished eighth, which is their best finish of the spring season. In six of the eight tournaments BGSU has played in this year, it has finished eighth or better, including finishing runner up at the Earl Yestingmeier Match Play Tournament.

Some other 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: Auburn University
Dates: April 15-16
Location: Shoal Creek, Alabama
Course Info: Shoal Creek Golf Club, 7,400 Yards, Par 72
Tournament Field: The Falcons are one of 15 teams competing along with Auburn, Georgia State, Jacksonville State, Jacksonville, Lamar, LSU, Samford, Troy, Alabama, UAB, UNC-Charlotte, North Florida, Tennessee and Kentucky.

Schedule of Events
Day 1: 12 p.m. start time, 36 holes, Day 2: 8:30 a.m. start time, 18 holes. Monday will begin with teams starting at holes No. 1 and No. 10 and will continue in nine minute increments. Shotgun start on Tuesday.

Coach Powers Quote
"This is a special opportunity to play against a world class field of teams on a true championship venue. Our team has shown tremendous growth over the past several weeks and now it is time to see it pay off in the scores top to bottom."

Falcons Lineup
The Falcons lineup this weekend will be Rodrigue Vie, Pablo Heredia Iglesias, Trey Walker, Nick Hofland and Noah Firestone.

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Live stats will be available on Golfstat, a link will be provided once it becomes available.

Up Next
This will be the final regular season tournament before the Falcons compete in the MAC Championship, beginning on April 26.

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