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Genesis Invitational Collegiate Showcase
Trio of Deacs Headed to Genesis Collegiate Showcase
2/11/2024 2:45:00 PM | Men's Golf
PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. - The Wake Forest men's golf team will travel to the Genesis Collegiate Showcase Monday at the notable Riviera Country Club. The showcase is set to start on Monday, Feb. 12.
The Demon Deacons will bring Michael Brennan, Andrew McLauchlan and Daniel Sheedy to the 2024 Genesis Collegiate Showcase.
Graduate student Daniel Sheedy led the Deacs in their last showing at the Southwestern Invitational, scoring under par every round and finished with a final round score of 70 (-1). Sheedy ended the week as the top player on the individual leaderboard, posting a 210 (-3) with three counting scores including the lowest round of the week which came on the final day of play, 69 (-2).
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In 2022, Wake Forest sophomore Michael Brennan set a Collegiate Showcase shooting a five-under-par 66 to earn the final exemption into The Genesis Invitational. Brennan used a birdie-eagle stretch on the 10th and 11th holes to separate himself from the largest field in the eight-year history of the Collegiate Showcase. Brennan, a Leesburg, Va. native who ranked No. 19 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking at the time of his victory, became the second Wake Forest player to win the Collegiate Showcase joining Will Zalatoris (2015), who played in Brennan's group during the 2022 showcase.
Last year, the Deacs took home the team title. The team that featured sophomore Marshall Meisel, who shot 11-under-par, and won the competition by three strokes over the other teams.
Collegiate Showcase Breakdown
The Collegiate Showcase features a standout collegiate golfer paired with three amateurs representing a college/university competing in both a team and individual competition. The team's three amateurs play a best-ball round with the top three-person team winning a $50,000 donation to the school's golf program. The low collegiate golfer will earn an exemption into the 2024 Genesis Scottish Open Collegiate Showcase registration fee of $30,000 per team / $10,000 per amateur. Can be paid by alumni/donors, or the university. First held in 2015, the Collegiate Showcase will be contested for the 10th time in 2024.
About the Course
The Riviera Country Club is consistently ranked as a top 50 golf course in the world and among the top 25 courses in the United States. True to its founders' intentions, it welcomes the world's greatest golfers each year for the PGA Tour's Genesis Open and over its history has been the venue for major events such as the U.S. Open, PGA Championship, U.S. Amateur, U.S. Senior Open and the NCAA Championships. In 2028, it will host the men's and women's golf competitions when the Olympic Games come to Los Angeles.
