Men's Golf Begins Spring Season With Match Play Tournament in Florida

Dade City, Fla. – The BGSU men's Golf team will open its spring schedule Feb. 11 when they travel to Dade City, Florida to 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. Bowling Green also finished runner up last year to Miami.

On the fall campaign, BG finished in fourth place in is opening tournament, the Raising Canes Invitational, hosted by Eastern Kentucky University. The Falcons then finished as co-runner ups at the Firestone Invitational, hosted by the University of Akron. Bowling Green was just one stroke back from finishing as co-champions. The Falcons placed three inside the top ten on the individual leaderboard -- Nick Hofland, Rodrigue Vie and Tom North.

The Orange and Brown then followed up that finish with the first program win since 2017 at the Tom Tontimonia Invitational. The Falcons shot a team score of 837 (-15) and were just five strokes shy of tying the program record for a 54-hole tournament. There were three Falcons in the top five in Vie, North and Ward Kyle. Rodrigue Vie finished first among 78 golfers in the individual ranks, which marks the first individual win for BGSU men's golf since 2015. Vie's score was just three strokes behind the program record at 202, which was set by Jose Narro in 2015.

Since taking over as head coach, John Powers has had five finishes during the fall season inside of fourth place. The team win at the Tom Tontimonia is the best finish under Powers since he took over the job.

There are seven events for the spring season, including tournaments hosted by Michigan State University, the University of Missouri and Penn State University.

Tournament Format
Host: Ball State University
Dates: Feb. 10-11
Location: Dade City, Florida
Course Info: Lake Jovita South Course; Par 72 -- 7,153 Yards
Tournament Field (seed in parenthesis) (1) Ball State (2) Bowling Green (3) Dayton (4) Eastern Michigan (5) Loyola Chicago (6) Xavier (7) Drake (8) DePaul

The Falcons will roll out Rodrigue Vie, Tom North, Nick Hofland, Ward Kyle, Dylan Fitchet and Ian Mackenzie-Olson for this tournament. Players are seeded for each match according to their national ranking according to Golfstat.

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. 10 | First and Second Rounds (8:30 a.m. shotgun start; continuous play)
Tuesday, Feb. 11 | Third Round (8:30 a.m. shotgun start)

Follow the Falcons
There will be live scoring for the event through Golfstat at this link:
http://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=participants&tid=20479

Up Next
The Falcons will compete at the Border Olympics, hosted by the University of Houston in Laredo, Texas over Feb. 24-25.

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