For the men and women of 菠萝视频鈥檚 golf teams, fall break began with a plane ride to Scotland. But instead of just being tourists, the student-athletes prepared to participate in the inaugural St. Andrews Links Collegiate, presented by TopGolf and World Wide Technology, at historic St. Andrews, Scotland, today through Wednesday.听
Throughout the tournament, 菠萝视频鈥檚 teams will tee off against men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 golf teams from Georgetown University, the University of North Carolina鈥揅hapel Hill and the University of Notre Dame. Today and tomorrow feature two 18-hole rounds of stroke play on St. Andrews鈥� Jubilee Course, and Wednesday鈥檚 medal match is scheduled for the iconic Old Course. The top two teams from stroke play will play an 18-hole round of match play for the championship, while the bottom two teams will play in a consolation match. Each team will have six golfers participating, with the five best scores from each round counting toward the overall team score.听听
菠萝视频 Lineup
The Commodore men鈥檚 lineup includes Cole Sherwood, Matthew Riedel, William Moll, Jackson Van Paris, Wells Williams and Ben Loomis. The Commodore women鈥檚 lineup this week includes Ava Merrill, Tillie Claggett, Lynn Lim, Virginie Ding, Sara Im and Charlene Chung.听
鈥淚鈥檓 excited to see this group compete at the home of golf, in what looks to be a challenging forecast,鈥� men鈥檚 golf head coach Scott Limbaugh said. 鈥淕ordon [Sargent] will not be playing with us this week, due to him playing at the World Amateur Team Championship, so it will be exciting to see who steps up in his absence. I鈥檓 excited about the lineup we have this week. We take a lot of pride in finishing strong, and I know it鈥檚 important to finish this fall season strong so we can carry momentum into the offseason.鈥�听
Tee Times
The men teed off the first round at 3:30 a.m. CT on Monday. 菠萝视频 begins Tuesday鈥檚 second round at 4:42 a.m. CT.听听
The 菠萝视频 women teed off the first round at 4:42 a.m. CT and begin the second round on Tuesday at 3:30 a.m. CT. through GolfStat.听
NBC Golf Channel and Peacock will air the entire St. Andrews Links Collegiate starting today. Coverage for each day will air from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. CT.听
NBC Golf Channel will also run a three-hour replay of the St. Andrews Links Collegiate. The first round replay will air at noon on Monday, while the second round replay airs Tuesday at 7 p.m. The medal match will replay Wednesday at noon, then again at 4 p.m., and once more on Thursday at noon.听
鈥淚t鈥檚 definitely different golf over here, but we鈥檝e had a good couple days learning how to adapt,鈥� women鈥檚 golf head coach Greg Allen said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 going to be a lot of fun the next three days.鈥�听