The No. 4 Florida men\u2019s golf team teed off the 2025-26 season at the Sahalee Players Championship over the weekend, closing out with a 10th-place finish through Saturday and Sunday\u2019s rounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Gators ended the first day of the tournament with junior Jack Turner<\/a> tied for sixth place. Turner notched his 32nd career under-par round with a 3-under performance in the second round. He closed his final 10 holes bogey-free and 3-under.<\/p>\n Freshman Josh Bai<\/a> made a strong collegiate debut, firing a 71 (1-under) with two clutch birdies in his final four holes to post Florida\u2019s second under-par round. He ultimately finished tied 40th at 6-over. Senior Matthew Kress<\/a> responded from his opening 77 (5-over) with a steady even-par 72, dropping just one bogey and canceling it out with a birdie on a par-4 fourth. Kress tied for 34th at 5-over.<\/p>\n By the end of the round, the Gators bounced back from their opening 306 (18-over) to a sharper 289 (1-over).<\/p>\n In Sunday\u2019s closing round, Turner capped the season opener with Florida\u2019s best finish at Sahalee Country Club, tying for 20th at5-over. Kress was the next best finish in a tie for 30th at 8-over.<\/p>\n The Gators closed out the weekend placing 10th among the U.S. National Development Team and 10 other universities competing. The tough result comes after Florida stood No. 4 in the preseason polls. With a trio of decorated newcomers and fresh off an SEC title win, the team was poised to keep the momentum rolling straight into the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n The team looks to get back into the swing of things at the Fighting Illini Collegiate starting Sept. 19.<\/p>\n Category: Gator Sports<\/a>, Gators Men’s Golf<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No. 4 Florida men\u2019s golf team teed off the 2025-26 season at the Sahalee Players Championship over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,70949,70950,622,70951,70952,70953,70954,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-129355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting-illini-collegiate","11":"tag-florida-gators-mens-golf","12":"tag-golf","13":"tag-jack-turner","14":"tag-josh-bai","15":"tag-matthew-kress","16":"tag-sahalee-players-championship","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}