Country Club of South Carolina to host event for fourth consecutive year
FLORENCE, S.C. - The 74th Southern Conference Men’s Golf Championship begins Sunday, April 18 at the Country Club of South Carolina in Florence, S.C., and runs through Tuesday, April 20.
Chattanooga is the three-time defending champion at the event, as the Mocs edged Georgia Southern by two strokes to claim the 2009 title at the par 72, 7,062-yard course. Chattanooga which enters the tournament ranked No. 34 in the nation by Golfstat, has won one tournament in 2009-10 and returns its top three golfers from last season’s title-winning team.
Furman, Georgia Southern, Wofford and UNC Greensboro all enter the event with top 100 national rankings and hope to play spoilers against Chattanooga. Georgia Southern, the 2006 event champion, is the last school other than UTC to take home a SoCon title.
Also participating in the 11-team event are Appalachian State, College of Charleston, Davidson, Elon, Samford and Western Carolina.
The Southern Conference Men’s Golf Championship has been played every season since 1933, aside from a four-year hiatus during World War II, and the event boasts past champions such as Arnold Palmer (1948-49), Brad Faxon (1983) and Rhys Davies (2005), a winner on the European PGA Tour last month.
The winner of the SoCon Championship will earn the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Regional while the individual medalist will also earn an automatic regional qualification.
The tournament tees off at 8:00 a.m. Sunday morning, and fans can follow the action at www.golfstatresults.com.