{"id":823251,"date":"2026-07-24T14:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823251\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T14:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:49:18","slug":"mens-golf-rolls-out-2026-27-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823251\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Golf Rolls Out 2026-27 Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISONBURG, Va. \u2013 James Madison men&#8217;s golf rolled out its schedule for the 2026-27 season on\u00a0Friday, July 24.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Dukes will compete in 10 tournaments across the school year, with four competitions in the fall and six in the spring. JMU is coming off a fifth-place finish at the 2026 Sun Belt Championship.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe 2026-27 season tees off with a trip to Phoenix for the Bomb Darts Birds Collegiate (Sept. 7-8) and a return trip to the JT Poston Invitational\u00a0(Sept. 13-15). During the 2025-26 season, the Dukes finished fifth and recorded the third-lowest 54-hole score in program history at the Bomb Darts Birds Collegiate (then Whirlwind Invitational) and tallied a fourth-place showing at the JT Poston.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAfter the opening two tournaments,\u00a0JMU will close the fall portion of its slate with debut appearances at the Testudo Cup (Oct. 5-6) in Ijamsville, Md., and the Qubein Cup (Oct. 19-20) in Greensboro, N.C.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFollowing a break from competition, the Dukes return to action at the Compadres Collegiate (Feb. 7-9) in Canc\u00fan, Mexico. JMU will then continue its spring season in Southern Pines, N.C., at the Babygrande Donald Ross Collegiate (March 8-10).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJMU&#8217;s spring season rolls on with a trip to Auburn, Ala., for the Tiger Invitational (March 15-16) and the Giles-Spratley Collegiate (April 5-6),\u00a0hosted\u00a0by University of Richmond in Midlothian, Va. The Dukes will return to the Everett Buick GMC Classic (April 12-13) in Little Rock, Ark., to close the regular season.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Dukes return four players from the 2025-26 season, headlined by <a href=\"https:\/\/jmusports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/michael-hake\/23534\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"23534\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Hake<\/a>, who finished with a stroke average of 72.42 with six top-25 finishes. JMU will also add four freshmen to its 2026-27 roster in Blake Hartman (Dublin, Ohio), Henry Holland (Charlotte, N.C.), Charles McPherson (Durham, N.C.), and Finn Watson (Arlington, Va.).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe 2027 Sun Belt Conference Men&#8217;s Golf Championship will take place April 26-29 in Madison, Miss., at Annandale Golf Club. The Dukes finished fifth at the 2026 championship, tied for their best finish since joining the league in 2022-23.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISONBURG, Va. \u2013 James Madison men&#8217;s golf rolled out its schedule for the 2026-27 season on\u00a0Friday, July 24.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-823251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823251","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=823251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}