Tuesday, February 8
Dade City, Fla.
All Day
University of Toledo
at
Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play
Senior David Amm and the Rockets will open their spring season on Monday.
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Toledo Heading to Florida to Tee Off Spring Season
2/4/2022 3:40:00 PM | Men's Golf
TOLEDO, Ohio - The Toledo men's golf team will open its spring season on Monday-Tuesday, Feb. 7-8 at the Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play event in Dade City, Fla. The Rockets are one of eight schools competing in the tournament at the Lake Jovita Country Club.
The two-day event will consist of 54 holes of match-play competition. Teams are seeded based upon Golfstat rankings and then placed into a bracket. Each team match will consist of six individual matches. The lineup order for each team is based upon individual player Golfweek rankings.
Toledo will open the tournament Monday morning as the No. 1 seed against DePaul and face either Loyola Chicago or Drake in the afternoon. Toledo will play its final match on Tuesday morning against Ball State, Dayton, Eastern Michigan or Xavier.
Head Coach Jeff Roope said the Rockets are eager to pick up where they left off from a strong finish to their fall season. During the fall, Toledo set a 54-hole school record with its 22-under par team total at the Quail Valley Collegiate Invitational and also finished second at the Grandover Collegiate and third at the Purdue Fall Invitational.
"I think success breeds success and it makes everyone a little hungrier," Roope said. "Our guys saw our results from the fall and were able to enjoy the fruits of their labor a little bit. I think we're at the point now where we have a team full of guys that are mostly self-motivated to go out and do the work necessary to be successful. Our team has similar goals and it's a matter of surrounding ourselves with good people who are on the same page."
Roope said his team started to believe it had the chance to be successful during Washington's Husky Invitational, its first tournament of the fall.
"We realized when we were out at Washington competing against some high-level teams that we just needed to plug a couple of holes here and there," Roope said. "We showed a lot of promise there, and then we had a chance to win at Purdue in our third tournament. That boosted our confidence even more. We continued to fight, battle and played with confidence at Quail Valley and that carried over to our last event where we were right there to the end."
Sophomores Barend Botha and Jamie Tofte Nielsen are leading Toledo with 71.3 and 71.7 stroke averages, respectively. Â
"Barend and Jamie have both taken another big step in their development after not arriving on campus until last January during the middle of the pandemic," Roope said. "It was quite an unusual time to begin your college career and now returning to a normal routine this has been great for them. Having a chance to play a regular tournament schedule this past summer also was a big help for their success in the fall."
The Rockets also have been impacted by transfers Lukas Clark (72.7) and Max Siegfried (74.4), who have provided veteran leadership along with senior David Amm (74.5).
"Lukas and Max both came here with a long history of playing in high-level tournaments and working with high-level instructors," Roope said. "They've been through the wars already and have been good additions for us. David also provides some great leadership, and they all have helped establish a very good culture and accelerate the development of Barend and Jamie."
Toledo also has additional options in junior NJ Botha, sophomore Palmer Yenrick , sophomore Logan Hooper and freshman Jamie Butler that Roope can turn to when setting his lineup.
"We have plenty of choices when determining our lineup each tournament," Roope said. Having guys fight to get into the lineup is a good problem to have. As a coach, you want to play everyone and make everyone happy, but in golf you can only play five and not sub guys in and out. You need to be encouraging to those in the lineup and those who aren't playing."
THE FIELD
Toledo will be joined in the Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play by Mid-American Conference members Ball State and Eastern Michigan as well as Dayton, DePaul, Drake, Loyola Chicago, and Xavier.
LIVE SCORING
Live scoring for the Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play can be found at golfstat.com
ON THE HORIZON
The Rockets will return to action next week with a trip to Mobile, Ala. for South Alabama's Mobile Bay Intercollegiate on February 14-15.
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The two-day event will consist of 54 holes of match-play competition. Teams are seeded based upon Golfstat rankings and then placed into a bracket. Each team match will consist of six individual matches. The lineup order for each team is based upon individual player Golfweek rankings.
Toledo will open the tournament Monday morning as the No. 1 seed against DePaul and face either Loyola Chicago or Drake in the afternoon. Toledo will play its final match on Tuesday morning against Ball State, Dayton, Eastern Michigan or Xavier.
Head Coach Jeff Roope said the Rockets are eager to pick up where they left off from a strong finish to their fall season. During the fall, Toledo set a 54-hole school record with its 22-under par team total at the Quail Valley Collegiate Invitational and also finished second at the Grandover Collegiate and third at the Purdue Fall Invitational.
"I think success breeds success and it makes everyone a little hungrier," Roope said. "Our guys saw our results from the fall and were able to enjoy the fruits of their labor a little bit. I think we're at the point now where we have a team full of guys that are mostly self-motivated to go out and do the work necessary to be successful. Our team has similar goals and it's a matter of surrounding ourselves with good people who are on the same page."
Roope said his team started to believe it had the chance to be successful during Washington's Husky Invitational, its first tournament of the fall.
"We realized when we were out at Washington competing against some high-level teams that we just needed to plug a couple of holes here and there," Roope said. "We showed a lot of promise there, and then we had a chance to win at Purdue in our third tournament. That boosted our confidence even more. We continued to fight, battle and played with confidence at Quail Valley and that carried over to our last event where we were right there to the end."
Sophomores Barend Botha and Jamie Tofte Nielsen are leading Toledo with 71.3 and 71.7 stroke averages, respectively. Â
"Barend and Jamie have both taken another big step in their development after not arriving on campus until last January during the middle of the pandemic," Roope said. "It was quite an unusual time to begin your college career and now returning to a normal routine this has been great for them. Having a chance to play a regular tournament schedule this past summer also was a big help for their success in the fall."
The Rockets also have been impacted by transfers Lukas Clark (72.7) and Max Siegfried (74.4), who have provided veteran leadership along with senior David Amm (74.5).
"Lukas and Max both came here with a long history of playing in high-level tournaments and working with high-level instructors," Roope said. "They've been through the wars already and have been good additions for us. David also provides some great leadership, and they all have helped establish a very good culture and accelerate the development of Barend and Jamie."
Toledo also has additional options in junior NJ Botha, sophomore Palmer Yenrick , sophomore Logan Hooper and freshman Jamie Butler that Roope can turn to when setting his lineup.
"We have plenty of choices when determining our lineup each tournament," Roope said. Having guys fight to get into the lineup is a good problem to have. As a coach, you want to play everyone and make everyone happy, but in golf you can only play five and not sub guys in and out. You need to be encouraging to those in the lineup and those who aren't playing."
THE FIELD
Toledo will be joined in the Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play by Mid-American Conference members Ball State and Eastern Michigan as well as Dayton, DePaul, Drake, Loyola Chicago, and Xavier.
LIVE SCORING
Live scoring for the Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play can be found at golfstat.com
ON THE HORIZON
The Rockets will return to action next week with a trip to Mobile, Ala. for South Alabama's Mobile Bay Intercollegiate on February 14-15.
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