Men’s Golf Travels to Myrtle Beach for General Hackler Championship
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky men’s golf team returns to the course on Monday for its second tournament of the spring season. The Wildcats are set to take on a two-day, 54-hole event featuring 13 teams at the General Hackler Championship in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Kentucky will send a lineup with a mixture of experience and youth to a tournament it has played in twice before, once in 2017 and another in 2009.
The Dunes Golf and Beach Club will play at a par 72 over 7,233 yards. It’s a 54-hole event with 36 holes taking place on Monday and the final 18 on Tuesday. Tee times being at 7:40 a.m. ET on Monday. Live scoring will be available via golfstat.com.
Senior Lukas Euler will once again headline the starting lineup after finishing in a tie for 22nd at the Seminole Intercollegiate in the team’s first spring event.
Euler is joined in the lineup by classmates Max Mehles and Fred Allen Meyer, junior Matt Liston and redshirt freshman Zach Norris. Freshman Cullan Brown will play as an individual.
Norris makes his second appearance in the starting lineup after earning his first career top-15 finish at the Seminole Intercollegiate. He shot 2-under par which was good enough for a 12th place finish.
Mehles, Meyer and Liston will make their fifth consecutive starts for the Wildcats. Mehles finished 1-under at the Seminole Intercollegiate, where he played as an individual. That score placed him in a tie for 16th, his fourth top-20 finish of his career and first of the 2018-19 season.
In their last tournament, Meyer registered a 219 and Liston logged a 226. The duo ended in a tie for 37th and 56th, respectively.
Brown will play as an individual after making his collegiate debut as a starter at the Seminole Intercollegiate. Brown went 2-under in his first round, but finished at 5-over and in a tie for 42nd.
The General Hackler Championship features Coastal Carolina, East Carolina, East Tennessee State, Georgia, Kent State, Liberty, Louisville, North Florida, North Texas, Northern Illinois, Texas A&M and Wake Forest. The field features six teams ranked inside of the top 30 of the latest Golfstat rankings, including sixth-ranked Wake Forest.
This is the third time Kentucky has participated in this tournament, placing seventh in both 2009 and 2017.
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For more information contact:
Deb Moore (deb.moore@uky.edu) or Cole Bollinger (cole.bollinger@uky.edu)
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