St. John's University Athletics
St. John's University
UConn Invitational at GreatHorse
St. John’s Prepares to Defend Title at UConn Invitational at GreatHorse
9/29/2023 6:02:00 PM | Men's Golf
Red Storm will compete in 13-team field starting on Sunday
QUEENS, N.Y.– The St. John's men's golf team will prepare to defend its team title for the three-day, three-round UConn Invitational at GreatHorse starting on Sunday.
Play will run from Sunday-Tuesday from GreatHorse, a par-72, 7,093-yard track in Hampden, Mass.
St. John's will compete in a competitive 13-team field featuring- the hosts UConn, Rhode Island, Xavier, Boston College, LIU, Fairleigh Dickinson, Siena, Lafayette, Holy Cross, Rider, Iona and Towson. Including individual competitors, the tournament will have 78 players take the course
In 2022, the Red Storm emerged from the 14-school field to capture its first win under now second-year Head Coach Phil Wildermuth. The Johnnies shot 21-over as a team over three days in early October to finish four strokes ahead of BIG EAST foe Seton Hall.
Recent graduate Tyler Gerbavsits paced the Red Storm in last year's event logging a fifth place finish at 3-over, 219. Current Johnnie Ryan Rittberger checked in right behind him shooting 4-over, 220, for sixth overall.
In its most recent tournament, the squad battled through rainy and windy conditions at the Macdonald Cup, hosted by Yale, on Sept. 23-24. Peicheng Chen, the event's defending champion logged a top-10 finish closing out T-9th in New Haven, Conn. Freshman Thomas Finn had the best finish of his young collegiate career placing T-15th at the Yale Golf Course.
Live results will be available each day from the UConn Invitational at GreatHorse on GolfStat.
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