Golden Eagles head to Skyhawk Classic ready to compete
After opening the season in two highly challenging tournaments, Tennessee Tech 's freshman-laden men's golf team returns to a more familiar scene Monday and Tuesday at UT Martin's Skyhawk Classic.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- After opening the season in two highly
challenging tournaments, Tennessee Tech 's freshman-laden men's
golf team returns to a more familiar scene Monday and Tuesday at UT
Martin's Skyhawk Classic. The tournament will be played at Paris
Landing State Park, a site that Polk Brown’s veteran players
are familiar with, having played in this tournament for several
years.
The only problem is that the lineup for the Golden Eagles includes
few veteran players – just two out of seven, in fact.
Only senior Lee Maxwell and junior Greg Kitts have been in
Tech’s previous lineups at the Skyhawk Classic. First-timers
will include freshmen Adam Cunningham, Bryce Kendrick, Mitch Thomas
and Lee Whitehead, and sophomore Maxx Verble. For Kendrick and
Verble, this week’s outing will be their first competition of
the season.
“We’re ready to get out there and play,” Brown
said. “We’ve played in two really good tournaments,
against some really top competition. This tournament will include a
lot of teams we’re more familiar with on a course that some
of us have seen before.”
Tech opened the year with an 11th place showing at the
Mason Rudolph Championship, hosted by Vanderbilt at The Legends
Club. The field was loaded with teams from the Southeastern
Conference. The second meet was the Rees Jones Invitational, hosted
by South Carolina at Haig Point. Another tough field and another
potent test.
A year ago Tyler Cassetty finished fourth individually and helped
the Golden Eagles to a fourth place team finish among 14 schools at
the Skyhawk Classic.
Results of play will be posted each day on TTUsports.com as soon
as they become available.
