Wake Forest University
OTC Collegiate Invitational
Deacs Ready for Inaugural OTC Collegiate Invitational
9/21/2018 9:05:00 AM | Men's Golf
Play Monday and Tuesday at Old Town Club
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| Dates | September 24-25, 2018 | Play begins 7:30am each day |
| Coverage | GolfStat Scoring (tee times will be listed when complete) |
| Location | Winston-Salem, N.C. (Old Town Club) - Course Info | Weather |
| Information | @WakeMGolf  | Tournament Program | |
DEACON LINEUP
1. Cameron Young
2. Eric Bae
3. Alex Fitzpatrick
4. Marco Steyn
5. Lee Detmer
Ind. Eugenio Chacarra
Ind. Parker Gillam
Ind. Kengo Aoshima
Ind. Charlie Kennerly
Ind. Jared Wilson
TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
Field: Wake Forest, East Carolina, East Tennessee State, Louisville, Loyola (Md.), Maryland, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Rutgers, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Yale
Tee Times: Round 1 (Monday, beginning at 7:30am), Round 2 (Monday, following the completion of Round 1), Round 3 (Tuesday, beginning at 7:30 am)
Admission: FREE!
Course: Old Town Club (Par 70, 6,966 yards)
ABOUT OLD TOWN
Old Town Club has served as the official home course of Wake Forest golf for many decades. Like Wake Forest, Old Town also maintains a rich golf tradition. Located immediately next door to the University campus, this 1939 Perry Maxwell masterpiece has just recaptured the attention of the golf world following a 2013 restoration by famed architects, Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw.
The restoration served as a catalyst for one of the biggest jumps ever in Golfweek magazine's annual rankings. In 2014, Old Town catapulted an unprecedented 43 places up the chart to the 29th position in the country. That's the largest leap by any "classical" course in the history of the rankings. Still today, Old Town continues to climb to No. 23 on Golfweek's prestigious listing.
The results are universally glowing. Old Town also landed at No. 59 on GOLF Magazine's biennial list of the Top 100 golf courses in the country. In 2018, Old Town also secured its first World 100 ranking and is now listed at No. 40 in North America.
For Coore, the Old Town restoration represented a homecoming. Coore grew up 24-miles away from Old Town outside of Denton, N.C. and attended Wake Forest as an undergraduate. Though he only remained a member of the Wake Forest golf team through his sophomore year, Coore developed a keen sense of knowledge and understanding of the Maxwell design while regularly playing the course as a student.
Old Town's restoration focused on recapturing the size, shape and character of Maxwell's original bunkers, which often contained jagged-laced edges and tall stalks of native grasses, called broomsedge.
The restoration also featured the redesign of Old Town's double green at holes 8 and 17. Coore enlarged the dual putting surface from 8,200 to 16,700 square feet to more closely resemble its source of inspiration at The Old Course at St. Andrews -- home to seven double greens.
This year's OTC Collegiate Invitational will be the first collegiate tournament at the course since the 1962 ACC Championship.
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