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Rod Myers Invitational
Toledo will open its fall season at Duke's Rod Myers Invitational this weekend.
Toledo to Tee Off Fall Season at Duke's Rod Myers Invitational
9/11/2019 1:55:00 PM | Men's Golf
TOLEDO, Ohio — Toledo will open the fall portion of its 2019-20 men's golf season this weekend with a trip to Durham, N.C. for Duke's Rod Myers Invitational. The 54-hole tournament will be played on Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 14-15 at the par-72, 7,154-yard Duke University Golf Club. The event will feature 36 holes of play on Saturday and an 18-hole final round on Sunday, with tee times beginning at 7:35 a.m. on Saturday and 7:55 a.m. on Sunday.
The tourney field includes five schools – Duke, Liberty, Louisville, North Carolina and Wake Forest – that advanced to the 2019 NCAA Championships and two more – Princeton and UNC Greensboro – that qualified for last year's NCAA Regionals. In this year's Golfweek preseason rankings, Wake Forest is ranked No. 6 and is joined by No. 12 Louisville, No. 14 North Carolina, No. 15 Duke and No. 24 Liberty.
"The team is excited to kick things off at Duke," Head Coach Jeff Roope said. "The Rod Myers Invitational has a great reputation and we are grateful be a part of the field. With schools like Wake Forest, North Carolina, Louisville and host Duke in the field it will be a great way to jump right into our season."
Roope said his Rockets are familiar playing in tournaments filled with talented golfers and is looking forward to see how they match up.
"For most of our guys, it'll be a continuation of the challenging schedules they played during the summer," Roope said. "It's a chance to once again compete with some of the best amateurs in the world and continue our growth as a program."
Toledo's lineup this week will include seniors Nate Thomson, Rasmus Broholt Lind and Grant Godfrey, along with sophomore Muhammed Afif Mohd Fathi and freshman Jack Doody.
THE FIELD
• Thirteen schools are competing in the Rod Myers Invitational. The tournament will be played at the par-72, 7,154-yard Duke University Golf Club.
• Five schools – No. 3 Wake Forest, No. 15 Duke, No. 22 Liberty, No. 23 North Carolina, No. 30 Louisville – were ranked in the Top 30 of last year's Golfstat rankings. Joining the Rockets and that fivesome in the tourney are Charlotte, Cincinnati, East Carolina, Nebraska, Penn State, Princeton and UNC Greensboro.
LIVE SCORING
• Live scoring for the Rod Myers Invitational can be found at golfstatresults.com.
ON THE HORIZON
• Toledo will return home to host the 15th-annual Inverness Intercollegiate next week. The tournament will be held on Monday-Tuesday, Sept. 23-24 and include three 2019 NCAA Championship participants – Auburn, LSU and Ohio State - and six 2019 NCAA Regional qualifiers – Texas Tech, Tennessee, Michigan State, St. Mary's, Kent State and UNC Wilmington. Also competing in the tournament will be Kennesaw State, Michigan, Missouri, Northern Illinois and Notre Dame.
The tourney field includes five schools – Duke, Liberty, Louisville, North Carolina and Wake Forest – that advanced to the 2019 NCAA Championships and two more – Princeton and UNC Greensboro – that qualified for last year's NCAA Regionals. In this year's Golfweek preseason rankings, Wake Forest is ranked No. 6 and is joined by No. 12 Louisville, No. 14 North Carolina, No. 15 Duke and No. 24 Liberty.
"The team is excited to kick things off at Duke," Head Coach Jeff Roope said. "The Rod Myers Invitational has a great reputation and we are grateful be a part of the field. With schools like Wake Forest, North Carolina, Louisville and host Duke in the field it will be a great way to jump right into our season."
Roope said his Rockets are familiar playing in tournaments filled with talented golfers and is looking forward to see how they match up.
"For most of our guys, it'll be a continuation of the challenging schedules they played during the summer," Roope said. "It's a chance to once again compete with some of the best amateurs in the world and continue our growth as a program."
Toledo's lineup this week will include seniors Nate Thomson, Rasmus Broholt Lind and Grant Godfrey, along with sophomore Muhammed Afif Mohd Fathi and freshman Jack Doody.
THE FIELD
• Thirteen schools are competing in the Rod Myers Invitational. The tournament will be played at the par-72, 7,154-yard Duke University Golf Club.
• Five schools – No. 3 Wake Forest, No. 15 Duke, No. 22 Liberty, No. 23 North Carolina, No. 30 Louisville – were ranked in the Top 30 of last year's Golfstat rankings. Joining the Rockets and that fivesome in the tourney are Charlotte, Cincinnati, East Carolina, Nebraska, Penn State, Princeton and UNC Greensboro.
LIVE SCORING
• Live scoring for the Rod Myers Invitational can be found at golfstatresults.com.
ON THE HORIZON
• Toledo will return home to host the 15th-annual Inverness Intercollegiate next week. The tournament will be held on Monday-Tuesday, Sept. 23-24 and include three 2019 NCAA Championship participants – Auburn, LSU and Ohio State - and six 2019 NCAA Regional qualifiers – Texas Tech, Tennessee, Michigan State, St. Mary's, Kent State and UNC Wilmington. Also competing in the tournament will be Kennesaw State, Michigan, Missouri, Northern Illinois and Notre Dame.
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