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WEST COLUMBIA, SC \u2013\u00a0The 92nd\u00a0Southern Conference Men\u2019s Golf Championship will be played April 27-29 at Solina Golf Club for the first time. The club features a challenging 6,766-yard, par 72 course.<\/p>\n

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Tee times for the first round begin on Monday morning at 9:00 and three 18-hole rounds will be played \u2013 one each day \u2013 until a team champion and individual medalist are crowned and tickets punched to the 2026 NCAA Men\u2019s Golf regionals on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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ETSU is the defending team champion and will look for its sixth title in a row when play begins. The Bucs shot 28-under par in Greensboro, GA, last season to win by 10 strokes over UNC Greensboro. The Spartans boasted individual medalist Colin Dutton, who earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Regionals with a three-day score of 206 (10-under par).<\/p>\n

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Yannick Malik\u00a0is the top returning finisher from ETSU\u2019s championship, finishing one stroke back of Dutton last season with a 207.\u00a0Gavin Tiernan\u00a0(210) and\u00a0Joshua Pritchett\u00a0(212) are also back for the Bucs after finishing inside last year\u2019s top 10 individually.<\/p>\n

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The conference awarded 18 Golfer of the Week awards this season through both semesters, and 13 different golfers captured at least one honor. Western Carolina\u2019s\u00a0Tyler Jones\u00a0won four times, Furman\u2019s\u00a0Harris Barth\u00a0won twice, and UNC Greensboro\u2019s\u00a0Kelvin Hernandez\u00a0won twice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Jones leads the SoCon this season with a 70.24 stroke average over 29 rounds, followed closely by Samford\u2019s\u00a0Gavin Isbell(70.62), Mercer\u2019s\u00a0Henry Robards\u00a0(71.26) and Barth (71.37). Tiernan (71.44), Chattanooga\u2019s\u00a0Ward Harris\u00a0(71.56), Mercer\u2019s\u00a0JoseMaria Gutierrez\u00a0(71.56), Malik (71.73), Western Carolina\u2019s\u00a0Jace Butcher\u00a0(72.17), and Mercer\u2019s\u00a0Nathan Trodd\u00a0(72.21) round out the top 10.<\/p>\n

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ETSU\u2019s team stroke average of 71.33 paced the conference during the regular season, followed by Western Carolina (71.75), Mercer (71.88), Chattanooga, and Furman (72.45).<\/p>\n

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Chattanooga earned the highest team ranking from Scoreboard by Clippd, coming in at No. 67 in the most recent release. ETSU (81), UNC Greensboro (112), Furman (119), Western Carolina (124), and Mercer (150) are all ranked in the top 150 nationally.<\/p>\n

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Monday\u2019s first tee will signal the 92nd\u00a0edition of the SoCon Men\u2019s Golf Championship, which dates back to 1930 and features legendary champions in Wake Forest\u2019s\u00a0Arnold Palmer\u00a0(1948 and 1949) and Furman\u2019s\u00a0Brad Faxon\u00a0(1983).<\/p>\n

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ETSU\u2019s\u00a0Remi Chartier\u00a0holds the 54-hole championship record with an 18-under score of 198 in 2022 at The Oconee Course in Greensboro, GA.\u00a0Arnold Palmer\u00a0holds the 36-hole championship record, firing a 136 at the Old Town Club in Winston-Salem, NC, in 1949.<\/p>\n

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Furman and UNC Greensboro will tee off on the first hole Monday at 9:00 AM to begin competition. Mercer and Western Carolina will lead off the 10th\u00a0hole groups beginning at 9:05 AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 Championship Site | Digital Program WEST COLUMBIA, SC \u2013\u00a0The 92nd\u00a0Southern Conference Men\u2019s Golf Championship will be played…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,35725,35724,35726,622,35730,229693,82,35728,865,35723,35727,35729],"class_list":["post-630505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-college-basketball-scores","tag-college-football-scores","tag-college-volleyball-scores","tag-golf","tag-player-statistics","tag-socon","tag-sports","tag-sports-information","tag-sports-news","tag-sports-scores","tag-sports-videos","tag-team-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630505","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=630505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}