PREVIEW: Mobile Bay Intercollegiate

Feb. 16, 2014

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Tournament:
Mobile Bay Intercollegiate

Course:
RTJ Magnolia Grove Crossings Course

Dates:
Feb. 17-18, 2014

Tee Times:
Monday: 9:30 a.m. ET Shotgun Start
Tuesday: Tee times starting at 9 a.m. ET of Nos. 1 and 10

Field (Golfstat Rank):
Akron (134)
Auburn (27)
Chattanooga (71)
Davidson (98)
Georgia State (58)
Illinois State (148)
Kentucky (36)
Memphis (41)
Middle Tennessee (84)
Mississippi (79)
Samford (180)
South Alabama (53)
Southern Mississippi (108)
Texas State (171)
Wake Forest (28)

Wake Forest Lineup:
1. Thomas Birdsey
2. Danny Guise
3. Davis Womble
4. Clancy Waugh
5. Beau Cutts
Ind. Cyrus Stewart
Ind. Andrew Winters
Ind. Woody Woodward

Wake Forest Tournament History:

This is Wake Forest's third appearance in the Mobile Bay Intercollegiate.
Wake finished third as a team in 2012 and tied for fourth last season.
Lee Bedford birdied the final two holes to claim his fourth collegiate victory in 2012. Bedford finished the event at 4-under 212.
Last season, Evan Beck finished runner-up and Thomas Birdsey tied his career-best finish as he finished tied for fourth.

Wake Forest Notes:

Wake Forest finished the fall with its best tournament of the season, a third-place showing at the US Collegiate.
Freshman Danny Guise finished fourth overall and Thomas Birdsey finished tenth.
That followed a fifth place finish at the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate after finishing with a pair of 5-under 283s.
Birdsey had a career tournament at the BOT, finishing runner-up at 11-under par.
The 11-under 205 score for Birdsey at the BOT bested his previous 54-hole low by eight shots.
Birdsey was the first Demon Deacon to shoot 11-under for a 54-hole tournament since Brendan Gielow in 2008.
Birdsey leads the team with a 71.54 scoring average and three top-10 finishes.
The Deacs defeated SMU at the Payne Stewart Invitational at Pinehurst No. 2, winning both the stroke play and match play portions of the event.
Wake Forest started three freshmen at the season-opening Carpet Capital in Clancy Waugh, Danny Guise and Woody Woodward.
That was the first time since 1999 that three Demon Deacon freshmen started the first event.
Guise has played in every event for the Deacons this season and he is second on the team with a 72.31 scoring average.
Birdsey and freshman Ben Balter both qualified for the U.S. Amateur this summer.

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Ben Balter

Evan Beck

Thomas Birdsey

Beau Cutts

Danny Guise

Cyrus Stewart

Clancy Waugh

Andrew Winters

Davis Womble

Woody Woodward

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