CLEMSON, S.C. Clemson will compete in a major college golf tournament for the third consecutive week when Jordan Byrd’s Tigers play in the Calusa Cup at Calusa Pines Golf Course in Naples, Fla. this coming Sunday through Tuesday. The teams will play 18 holes per day April 3-5. It will be Clemson’s final regular season tournament before play starts at the ACC Tournament April 22.Clemson is one of nine teams in the field that includes seven of the top 25 teams in the nation according to the latest College Golf Coaches Poll and the latest Golfstat rankings.Leading the field is the unanimous No. 1 ranked Oklahoma Sooners. However, they might be without their top player according to the latest PGA University rankings as Logan McAlister, No. 4 in the that rating, will compete as an amateur in the Valero Texas Open this week.The field also includes top 25 teams from Georgia (8), Georgia Tech (11), Florida (16), Wake Forest (17), and Purdue (23). Clemson is ranked 19th by Golfweek, 22n
CLEMSON, S.C. Jacob Bridgeman will lead the Clemson Tigers into the Valspar Invitational on Monday. The Tigers are one of 12 ACC and SEC teams slated to competed in the two-day 54-hole tournament to be held at The Floridian in Palm City, Fla. The list of teams includes Clemson, Wake Forest, LSU, South Carolina, Texas A&M and many other prominent teams from the southeast. The Tigers are coming off the team’s first victory of the year at the Wake Forest Invitational at Pinehurst #2, then a fourth-place finish at the Linger Longer Invitational, a field that included 17 of the top 100 players in the nation. This tournament also attracts a national field, as the winner will receive an invitation to the 2023 Valspar Invitational tournament on the PGA Tour. Three Clemson golfers have combined to capture medalist honors at each of the last two tournaments and all three will be in the lineup for Clemson on Monday and Tuesday. Bridgeman is coming off one of the best performances of his c
CLEMSON, S.C. Clemson senior Jacob Bridgeman made four birdies in his final five holes on Tuesday to finish with a five-under-par 67 and win medalist honors at the Linger Longer Invitational in Eatonton, Ga. Bridgeman concluded the 54-hole, three-day event with a 16-under-par score of 200 on the Great Waters Course at the Reynolds Lake Oconee.Bridgeman became the first golfer in Clemson history to record three consecutive rounds in the same tournament with scores of 67 or better on a par 72 course.Clemson shot a final round team score of 283 and finished fourth in the strong field that included seven schools from the ACC and the SEC. Georgia won the tournament by four shots over Vanderbilt with an 836 score. Florida finished third at 850 and the Tigers were fourth at 852. Charlotte was one shot back at 853 and fourth-ranked North Carolina finished sixth at 864.It was quite a performance by Bridgeman, who won the 90-player event by six shots over his nearest competitor, tied for the
Defending champion Sam Burns is one of four players who shot a 7-under-par 64 on Thursday to take a share of the first-round lead at the Valspar Championship in