The Bulls are looking for their sixth AAC Championship
TOURNAMENT: American Athletic Conference Men’s Golf Championship
WHEN: Friday, April 21 – Sunday, April 23
LOCATION: Belleair, Fla.
COURSE: Pelican Golf Club (Par 70, 9,881 yards)
FOLLOW: Live Scoring | Twitter @USFMGolf, @American_MWGolf
AAC Championship Central
TAMPA, FLA., April 20, 2023 – The USF men’s golf team will begin play in the 2023 American Athletic Conference Golf Championship on Friday, April 21. For the first time, the tournament will be played at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Fla. (Par-70, 6,881 Yards). The championship will be played Friday through Sunday with the teams playing three 18-hole rounds, live coverage of the third and final round is expected to air on ESPN+.
The opening round on April 21 is set to begin with No. 7 seed East Carolina, No. 8 seed Wichita State and No. 9 seed Temple teeing off of the first hole between 8-8:52 a.m. (ET). No. 4 seed SMU, No. 5 seed Memphis and No. 6 seed South Florida will follow with groups starting from 9:05-9:57 a.m. (ET). No. 1 seed Cincinnati, No. 2 seed Houston and No. 3 seed UCF open round one between 10:10-11:02 a.m. (ET) at number one. Teams will be re-paired based on cumulative score for both rounds two and three.
The Bulls have been dominant in the American Men’s Golf Championship. USF has won the championship five times in the first eight seasons of the tournament. The Bulls, who last won in 2021, look to raise the trophy again following a second place finish a year ago. Four Bulls have been medalists since 2014, Ryan Fricker (2015), Aksel Olsen (2016), Claudio Correa (2018) and Albin Bergstrom (2021).
Head Coach Steve Bradley announced the following competitors for the Bulls:
Jake Peacock (So., Milton, Ga.), Shubham Jaglan (So., Delhi, India), Sam Nicholson (Jr., Atlantic Beach, Fla.), Nino Palmquist (Fr., Halmstad, Sweden), Chase Gullikson (So., Orlando, Fla.)
About USF Men’s Golf
The USF men’s golf program has captured 17 conference titles and has seen players earn 19 All-America honors. The Bulls have won five American Athletic Conference Tournament championships in wire-to-wire fashion, winning four-consecutive from 2015-18. The Bulls have had four individual conference champions, including Albin Bergstrom in 2021, and gone on to earn nine straight NCAA Regional appearances, including a 6th place finish in NCAA Championship match-play in 2015. USF is led by Steve Bradley, who has been named American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year five times since taking over the program in 2014. The Bulls have posted 20 tournament wins under Bradley entering the 2022-23 season, by far the most under any coach in program history.
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