Golf Hosts Three-Day Hurricane Invitational
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – For the seventh straight year, the No. 24 University of Miami golf team will host the Hurricane Invitational, which will take place at the par 72, 6,150-yard Biltmore Golf Course.
The Hurricanes will seek their third title this spring in a 13-team field that includes Golfweek.com’s No. 17 Oklahoma, the Hurricanes’ Atlantic Coast Conference rival No. 46 Virginia Tech and cross-town foes Barry and FIU. South Florida, Kentucky, Penn State, Maryland, Coastal Carolina, Mercer, Middle Tennessee State and South Dakota State will also participate.
Competition will begin as early as 7:30 a.m. Monday and will conclude on Wednesday. Live stats throughout the entire tournament will be available at Golfstat.com.
THE WORD ON THE CANES
-The Hurricanes won the Florida Challenge and UCF Challenge in successive weeks to begin the spring.
-Miami will tee-it-up for the fourth time this spring.
-Miami finished fourth out of 15 teams in the 2017 edition of the Hurricane Invitational.
-The Hurricanes will be in search of their 42nd top-five finish and eighth tournament win since Rizzo began her tenure 2010.
LAST TIME OUT
Last week, Miami finished ninth at the Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate in New Orleans after it carded a final round score of 301.
The Hurricanes finished the tournament with an overall tally of 899.
Miami fell just shy of a top-five finish, as it finished just four strokes behind SMU, which took fifth with a tournament tally of 895.
Junior Dewi Weber and sophomore Renate Grimstad both tied for 11th with a three-day total of 222.
UP NEXT
In its final tournament before the ACC Championship, the Hurricanes will travel Brown Summit, N.C., for the Bryan National Championship (April 6-8), which will be hosted by Wake Forest.
