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2024 SoCon Men’s Golf Championship begins Sunday
54-hole event to be contested at Reynolds Lake Oconee for fourth consecutive year
GREENSBORO, Ga. – The 2024 Southern Conference Men’s Golf Championship will be played April 21-23 at The Oconee Course at Reynolds Lake Oconee in Greensboro, Georgia. This will be the fourth straight year the tournament will be played at the par-72, 7,393-yard Rees Jones-designed course.
This season’s tournament will be played with a traditional format of one round a day over three days.
The league’s eight teams – ETSU, Furman, Mercer, UNC Greensboro, Samford, Chattanooga, Western Carolina and Wofford – will be competing for the SoCon tournament title and an automatic bid to the NCAA Regionals. The individual medalist will also earn an automatic regional qualification if he is not on the winning team.
ETSU will be looking for its fourth straight championship after winning its 23rd title last season at Reynolds Lake Oconee. The Buccaneers shot a 30-under-par 834 to secure a five-stroke victory over runner-up Chattanooga. A total of four teams finished under par in last season’s championship, with Furman and Western Carolina shooting 21-under-par 843 and 2-under-par 862, respectively, to claim the third and fourth place spots in 2023. ETSU was led by the top two individual finishers, with redshirt senior Mats Ege claiming medalist honors and sophomore Matty Dodd-Berry finishing second for the Bucs. Ege and Dodd-Berry were named SoCon Player and Freshman of the Year, respectively, following the 2023 championship.
The Buccaneers enter the 2024 tournament as the top-ranked SoCon team as ETSU is 19th in the Clippd rankings, followed by UNCG at 40th and Chattanooga at 43rd. Furman is ranked 83rd to give the conference four teams in the top 90 nationally.
ETSU owns 23 SoCon team titles, while Furman has 13 and Chattanooga has six to its credit. Furman’s last was in 2010 and Chattanooga claimed consecutive titles in 2012 and 2013.
The Buccaneers have a league-best 18 individual medalists to their credit, followed closely by Furman with 14. Western Carolina has five, and UNCG, Chattanooga and Wofford claim two each.
Four SoCon golfers are ranked in the top 80 nationally. Ege, who leads the league with a 69.10 stroke average, enters the championship ranked No. 13. ETSU’s Algot Kleen (No. 66), Chattanooga’s John Houk (No. 72) and Mercer’s Tobias Jonsson (No. 76) round out the foursome ranked in the top 80.
Overall, 10 different SoCon golfers have won tournaments this season. Five teams have been victorious this season, with ETSU and Chattanooga each winning multiple events.
The Southern Conference Men’s Golf Championship boasts a rich history. Dating back to 1930, the tournament has produced winners such as Wake Forest’s Arnold Palmer (1948 and 1949) and Furman’s Brad Faxon (1983), both SoCon Hall-of-Famers, and current PGA TOUR pros Stephan Jaeger of Chattanooga (2012), J.T. Poston of Western Carolina (2014 and 2015) and William McGirt of Wofford (2001).
The tournament tees off with twosomes at 12:40 p.m. Sunday. Live stats can be found here.
This season’s tournament will be played with a traditional format of one round a day over three days.
The league’s eight teams – ETSU, Furman, Mercer, UNC Greensboro, Samford, Chattanooga, Western Carolina and Wofford – will be competing for the SoCon tournament title and an automatic bid to the NCAA Regionals. The individual medalist will also earn an automatic regional qualification if he is not on the winning team.
ETSU will be looking for its fourth straight championship after winning its 23rd title last season at Reynolds Lake Oconee. The Buccaneers shot a 30-under-par 834 to secure a five-stroke victory over runner-up Chattanooga. A total of four teams finished under par in last season’s championship, with Furman and Western Carolina shooting 21-under-par 843 and 2-under-par 862, respectively, to claim the third and fourth place spots in 2023. ETSU was led by the top two individual finishers, with redshirt senior Mats Ege claiming medalist honors and sophomore Matty Dodd-Berry finishing second for the Bucs. Ege and Dodd-Berry were named SoCon Player and Freshman of the Year, respectively, following the 2023 championship.
The Buccaneers enter the 2024 tournament as the top-ranked SoCon team as ETSU is 19th in the Clippd rankings, followed by UNCG at 40th and Chattanooga at 43rd. Furman is ranked 83rd to give the conference four teams in the top 90 nationally.
ETSU owns 23 SoCon team titles, while Furman has 13 and Chattanooga has six to its credit. Furman’s last was in 2010 and Chattanooga claimed consecutive titles in 2012 and 2013.
The Buccaneers have a league-best 18 individual medalists to their credit, followed closely by Furman with 14. Western Carolina has five, and UNCG, Chattanooga and Wofford claim two each.
Four SoCon golfers are ranked in the top 80 nationally. Ege, who leads the league with a 69.10 stroke average, enters the championship ranked No. 13. ETSU’s Algot Kleen (No. 66), Chattanooga’s John Houk (No. 72) and Mercer’s Tobias Jonsson (No. 76) round out the foursome ranked in the top 80.
Overall, 10 different SoCon golfers have won tournaments this season. Five teams have been victorious this season, with ETSU and Chattanooga each winning multiple events.
The Southern Conference Men’s Golf Championship boasts a rich history. Dating back to 1930, the tournament has produced winners such as Wake Forest’s Arnold Palmer (1948 and 1949) and Furman’s Brad Faxon (1983), both SoCon Hall-of-Famers, and current PGA TOUR pros Stephan Jaeger of Chattanooga (2012), J.T. Poston of Western Carolina (2014 and 2015) and William McGirt of Wofford (2001).
The tournament tees off with twosomes at 12:40 p.m. Sunday. Live stats can be found here.