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2017 PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS INSTITUTION NAME ................................................. HEAD COACH INSTITUTION NAME ................................................. HEAD COACH Austin Peay Governors............................................ Robbie Wilson Presbyterian Blue Hose ....................................... Thomas Addison Belmont Bruins ........................................................... Scott Flynn Radford Highlanders ...............................................Michael Grant Central Arkansas ...................................................... Steve Runge Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles .................................... Polk Brown Charleston Southern Buccaneers ...............................Jason Payne Western Carolina Catamounts ....................................Tim Eckberg Colgate Raiders ...................................................... Keith Tyburski Elon Phoenix .................................................................... Don Hill INDIVIDUAL COMPETITORS: Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs ..................................Tee Burton Clemson Tigers ..........................................................Larry Penley Marshall Thundering Herd .....................................Matthew Grobe Duke Blue Devils ........................................................Jamie Green Morehead State Eagles ........................................Matthew Martin Wake Forest Demon Deacons ........................................Jerry Haas Western Carolina, Country Club of Sapphire Valley to Host 2017 Hummingbird Intercollegiate CULLOWHEE, N.C. – Led by last year’s individual medalist in senior Dylan continues to be in the best condition of any course that we’re going to play MacQueen, the defending tournament champion Western Carolina men’s this season. Our players are excited to come home to play the Country Club of golf team is set to host the 2017 Hummingbird Intercollegiate Oct. 1-3 at the Sapphire Valley, to be on a course that they know.” beautiful Country Club of Sapphire Valley. A combined 16 teams – 13 vying for the tournament team championship This season marks the 11th-consecutive year – and the 12th time overall and three additional squads sending individuals – comprise the 87-golfer – that WCU and the Country Club of Sapphire Valley (CCSV) have hosted an field. In addition to the host Catamounts, WCU welcomes golfers from Austin intercollegiate men’s golf tournament. With play slated on the first week of Peay, Belmont, Central Arkansas, Charleston Southern, Colgate, Elon, Gard- October, it marks the earliest date of competition in the tournament’s history, ner-Webb, Marshall, Morehead State, Presbyterian, Radford, and Tennessee an event that has traditionally been held in late October / early November. Tech, with individual competitors from three Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Also, for just the second-time in tournament history, the 2017 Humming- members, Clemson, Duke, and Wake Forest. bird Intercollegiate will play out at a 54-hole format with 36 holes of competi- Central Arkansas is the only new team that is competing for the first time, tion on Monday, Oct. 2 and the third and final round to tee-off on the morn- though Wake Forest’s individuals carry the Demon Deacons’ banner into the ing of Tuesday, Oct. 3. Festivities get underway on Saturday, Sept. 30 with a tournament for the first time. All told, nine different teams have won the Hum- special Member-Player round at CCSV. The 87-golfer field will again play one mingbird Intercollegiate with Western Carolina (2016, 2007) and Charleston of the region’s most pristine courses during the special time of year as the Southern (2004) representing the only two previous tournament champions mountainous terrain starts to be painted with the hues of autumn. in this year’s 16-school field. Live scoring of the tournament will be available both days and for all three In addition to Eckberg, Colgate men’s golf head coach Keith Tyburski is rounds online at GolfStatResults.com. Additional updates will be made peri- very familiar with the tournament venue as another former Catamount. Tybur- odically through Twitter using the handle, @Catamounts and @GolfWCU. ski, who is in his ninth season coaching the Raiders’ golf team, finished tied “It’s one of the best venues in the country for college golf,” said West- atop the individual leader board back in 2004 before falling on the second ern Carolina head men’s golf coach Tim Eckberg about the Country Club of hole of a playoff for medalist honors of the then WCU Intercollegiate. Sapphire Valley. “The membership at Sapphire Valley is fantastic to us and Playing at a par-71, 6,767-yard layout, the beautiful Country Club of they’ve been great in allowing us to host this event for so many years. The Sapphire Valley is a private, member-owned club that features a valley golf members treat the players like this is the top tournament in the country, and course, plush clubhouse, state-of-the-art fitness center, and tennis center. that’s what we want it to be.” The course meanders through the backdrop of a mature hardwood forest Eckberg, who played two seasons for the Catamounts in 2002-04, added, and scenic mountains that provide for breath taking views and a natural set- “I played this course when I was in college at Western Carolina, and I loved ting. The course, which sits on a level valley floor despite its mountainous it then. We are so very fortunate to be embraced by the club membership surroundings, was originally designed by George Cobb and was updated by that allows our golf program to use their top-notch facilities. This golf course Bill Bergin. HUMMINGBIRDINTERCOLLEGIATE PAGE 1 COUNTRY CLUB OF SAPPHIRE VALLEY The peaks of the southern Appalachian Mountains and the autumn foliage colors provide a magnificent setting for the team tournament. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: Two of the previous 12 Hummingbird Intercollegiate golf tournaments have been decided by a single stroke. Clemson edged SoCon-foe, Furman, by a single marker in 2014 with UCF rallying past Vanderbilt in 2008 for a one- SUNDAY, OCT. 1, 2017 stroke victory, using a tournament-record 36-hole score of 557. 11:00 am – College / Member Event In similar fashion, the individual race has finished tied just twice – the 7:00 pm – Dinner, Cornucopia: Casual / Golf Attire aforementioned 2004 tournament involving Tyburski and Radford’s Aaron Summers in which Summers claimed in the only playoff in event history. The other tie came in 2014 due to weather. MONDAY, OCT. 2, 2017 ALL TEE TIMES SUBJECT TO FROST DELAY Following back-to-back, weather-shortened events in 2014 and 2015, Western Carolina led start-to-finish a season ago and cruised to the team 8:00/8:05 am – First Round Tee Times Begin – No. 1 & No. 10 championship on its home course. Three of WCU’s scoring five placed inside Nine-minute increments the top five finishers including returners, MacQueen and teammate Jackson Noon – Lunch – Located at the turn Bishop, who was three strokes in arrears. Second Round to being after first round concludes Though this is just his second year on the WCU roster, the tournament’s de- Dinner, Mica’s Restaurant: Casual / Golf Attire fending individual champion, MacQueen, is making his fourth appearance at the Catamounts’ home tournament. Originally attending Cardinal Stritch Uni- versity, the Woodstock, Ontario native finished tied for 40th with a 5-over par TUESDAY, OCT. 3, 2017 round of 76 in 2014 and was tied for 23rd in 2015 with an even-par round of 71 ahead of claiming medalist honors a season ago with consecutive rounds ALL TEE TIMES SUBJECT TO FROST DELAY of 4-under par, 67 (134). 8:30/8:35 am – Third Round Tee Times Begin – No. 1 & No. 10 MacQueen became the third Catamount to claim the tournament’s indi- Nine-minute increments vidual medalist honor. Former Catamount J.T. Poston won the longest Hum- Noon – Lunch – Located at the turn mingbird Intercollegiate, pacing the then 54-hole tournament with a score of 204 in 2013. Andres Cuenca won the 2007 individual honors in the event’s TEAM and INDIVIDUAL Trophies and Awards will be presented return to the CCSV. to the top team and top individual at the conclusion Like MacQueen, WCU classmates Bishop and Bright Julamool are slated of the tournament near the scoreboard to make their fourth start in the home tournament. Bishop looks to capitalize on the runner-up finish a season ago while Julamool, who has twice com- peted in the scoring five and once as an individual prior, has finished inside the top 30 each year including tied for 21st last fall. The remainder of Western Carolina’s roster will make their first-ever ap- WCU MEDIA RELATIONS pearance at the home tournament. Joining the aforementioned trio in the scoring five for Eckberg are junior transfer George Whitbread and freshman RAMSEY CENTER – ATHLETICS Chandler Metz. The two other newcomers – freshmen Michael Coe and Zach CULLOWHEE, N.C. 28723 Caudill – will also be in competition as individuals with the Cary, N.C., prod- uct, Coe, making his collegiate debut. PHONE: (828) 227-2339 Complete results and recaps of both days will be made available at the FAX: (828) 227-7688 conclusion of play Monday and Tuesday. Asst. AD for Media Relations / Golf Contact: ..........Daniel Hooker Cell Phone: ........................................................(828) 508-2494 IMPORTANT TOURNAMENT CONTACTS / PHONE NUMBERS: E-mail Address: [email protected] Tim Eckberg, WCU Head Coach – (828) 399-1768 Director of Media