{"id":630453,"date":"2026-04-25T18:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/630453\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T18:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:17:10","slug":"mens-golf-returns-to-fripp-island-for-big-south-championship-university-of-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/630453\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Golf Returns to Fripp Island for Big South Championship &#8211; University of South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRIPP ISLAND S.C.\u2013 Returning to Fripp Island, USC Upstate men&#8217;s golf was seeded seventh for the Big South Men&#8217;s Golf Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament, held April 26-29, consists of 54-holes of stroke play with the top four teams advancing to match play on the 29th to determine the champion. The champion receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Regionals.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Spartans made program history by securing their first-ever Big South Championship. They were also the first men&#8217;s program in USC Upstate history to secure a Big South Championship title.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Live Scoring: <a href=\"https:\/\/scoreboard.clippd.com\/tournaments\/242780\/scoring\/team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Big South Championship Page: <a href=\"https:\/\/bigsouthsports.com\/sports\/2026\/3\/17\/MGOLF_0317260818.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Golfers to Watch<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe top three golfers in this year&#8217;s lineup were all critical pieces to the Spartans championship victory last season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/upstatespartans.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/jackson-stone\/6487\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6487\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Stone<\/a> led the Spartans in this last regular season tournament, finishing in the top-20. Stone had a two-under third-round score of 69 to close the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>This spring, <a href=\"https:\/\/upstatespartans.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/alec-prentice\/6484\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6484\" target=\"_blank\">Alec Prentice<\/a> has logged four different rounds under par, two of the four occurring at the Golden Nugget Invitational, where he finished in the top five.<\/p>\n<p>Lineup &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/upstatespartans.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/jackson-stone\/6487\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6487\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Stone<\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/upstatespartans.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/alec-prentice\/6484\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6484\" target=\"_blank\">Alec Prentice<\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/upstatespartans.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/jaskaran-sohal\/6486\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6486\" target=\"_blank\">Jaskaran Sohal<\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/upstatespartans.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/phuthanate-kangwol\/6489\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6489\" target=\"_blank\">Phuthanate Kangwol<\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/upstatespartans.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/herman-holst\/6483\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6483\" target=\"_blank\">Herman Holst<\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>(SUB) <a href=\"https:\/\/upstatespartans.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/nate-heller\/6482\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6482\" target=\"_blank\">Nate Heller<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Teams and Tournament Seedings: #1 Winthrop, #2 Longwood, #3 Gardner-Webb, #4 High Point, #5 Radford , #6 Charleston Southern, #7 USC Upstate, #8 Presbyterian<\/p>\n<p>About the Course: Designed by Davis Love III and Paul Cowley, Ocean Creek Golf Course has wide fairways and large greens highlighted by spectacular views of the marsh. The tournament will use a par 71, 6,546-yard layout.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nConnect with the Spartans\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFacebook.com\/UpstateAthletics\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTwitter | @UpstateMWGolf | @UpstateSpartans\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nInstagram | @UpstateMGolf | @UpstateSpartans\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nYouTube.com\/UpstateSpartans<\/p>\n<p>INVEST IN CHAMPIONS\u00a0&#8211; Join the Upstate Athletic Fund (UAF) and enjoy enhanced benefits for your support of all USC Upstate programs! Make your gift today,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/host.nxt.blackbaud.com\/donor-form\/?svcid=tcs&amp;formId=8f6215a2-3628-4095-879f-397ba8a19f55&amp;envid=p-Mn5mdazplEad5Agy2bMmIA&amp;zone=usa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>!<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRIPP ISLAND S.C.\u2013 Returning to Fripp Island, USC Upstate men&#8217;s golf was seeded seventh for the Big South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-630453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}