Men's Golf

[Mama_Bull]

USF Men's Golf completed its regular season event yesterday at the Wolfpack Invitational where they placed 4th.

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"Up Next

USF shoots for a three-peat at the American Athletic Conference April 23-25 in Palm Harbor, Fla."

USF, UCF and Houston are the conference favorites. However, all three teams are possibly on the "bubble" and will need to win or have a high finish in the AAC championship to secure a spot in an NCAA regional.

 

Meanwhile. three of our future players are competing today at the prestigious TaylorMade-adidas Golf Junior at Innisbrook.

 

Niemann leads the field through two rounds at 2-under-par 140

 

• Joaquin Niemann of Santiago, Chile, leads the field through two rounds after carding a 4-under-par 67 for a 2-under-par 140 tournament total. The University of South Florida verbal commit tallied five birdies in the round to take the top spot.

 

Niemann (USF 2017 Class) is currently ranked #3 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings (WAGR).

http://www.wagr.com/en/Ranking/Player.aspx?playerid=12017&ismens=True

 

4th place is Luke Gifford (USF 2018 Class).

T8th Won Jun Lee (#90 WAGR USF 2017 Class)

 

Live Scoring: https://scoring.ajga.org/leaderboard.asp?tn=2017020

 

Both Niemann and Lee will be playing April 20-22  at the Junior Invitational  at Sage Valley Golf Club: 

Junior Invitational Announces 2017 Field

GRANITEVILLE, S.C. (March 7, 2017) – The Junior Invitational at Sage Valley Golf Club has announced the field for its seventh annual tournament to be held April 20-22 at Sage Valley Golf Club in Graniteville, SC. Recognized as the most competitive junior golf event in the world, the 2017 Junior Invitational will host 54 of the world’s top junior golfers from 14 states in the United States and 17 other countries.

http://www.juniorinvitational.com/news/article.php?id=2

 

I would not be surprised to see Niemann ranked #1 in the world at some point in 2017.

 

The future for USF Men's Golf is very bright.

 

Edited April 16, 2017 by Mama_Bull

[Mama_Bull]

AJGA Media‏ @AJGAMedia  42m42 minutes ago

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Niemann with a birdie on 11 to hold his 8-stroke lead at @TaylorMadeGolf |@adidasGolf #AJGAInnisbrook

 

 

https://scoring.ajga.org/leaderboard.asp?tn=2017020

Edited April 16, 2017 by Mama_Bull

[Mama_Bull]

 

TaylorMade-adidas Golf Junior at Innisbrook

Niemann won by 8 shots!!!

Lee T7

Gifford T10

Great showing by all USF commits.

[Mama_Bull]

1. AJGA Media‏ @AJGAMedia  7m7 minutes ago

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   History has been made at #AJGAInnisbrook Joaquin Niemann set a new tournament record with 5-under-par 208.

   https://www.ajga.org/microsite/index.asp?tn=2017020#R3Results …

   

    

    

    
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   FCHG‏ @chilegolf  14m14 minutes ago

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   Joaquín Niemann se impuso en Florida y se adueñó del Taylormade-adidas Golf junior https://goo.gl/U5ODN2 

   

[Mama_Bull]

After his victory, J Niemann is now the #2 ranked WORLD  Amateur Golfer!!!

 

He could come closer to the #1 ranking WAGR with a high finish this week at the Junior Invitational, which begins tomorrow. He tees off at 9:20 AM. Our other 2017 signee, W J Lee tees off at 11:40 AM.

 

 http://scoring.golfstatresults.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=pairings&tid=13164

 

 

 

Ten players to watch at 2017 Junior Invitational at Sage Valley

Joaquin Niemann: The Chilean is ranked second in the WAGR and he tied for 24th last year at Sage Valley after finishing T-10 in 2015. He’s signed to play at South Florida this fall and is coming off a win last weekend at the AJGA TaylorMade-Adidas Junior at Innisbrook.

 

http://golfweek.com/2017/04/19/junior-invitational-sage-valley-players-to-watch/

 

You can follow J Niemann  and W J Lee  on Golf Stats or the the Golf Channel Leaderboard:

 http://www.golfchannel.com/tours/special-event/2017/junior-invitational-sage-valley/

 

As for USF team, they will be competing in the AAC championship starting Sunday.

Sun,  Apr 23  -  Tue, Apr 25

American Athletic Conference Championship *

Innisbrook Golf & Spa Resort, Palm Harbor, Fla.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mama_Bull]

USF '17 signee Joaquin Niemann is the current leader after shooting a bogey free 67 (-5) at the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley.

http://www.golfchannel.com/tours/special-event/2017/junior-invitational-sage-valley/

 

 

Edited April 20, 2017 by Mama_Bull

[Mama_Bull]

NIEMANN, JOHN SHARE JUNIOR INVITATIONAL AT SAGE VALLEY LEAD

20 Apr 2017 
by AmateurGolf.com Staff 
 

First round leader Joaquin Niemann 
(EMOL Photo)

 

GRANITEVILLE, SC (April 20, 2017) - With day one of the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley in the books Joaquin Niemann and Cameron John are sharing the lead at 5-under.

Niemann, competing in his third Junior Invitational played a flawless round of golf while birdieing five-times. A six-time winner a year ago including the IMG Junior World Championship and the Toyota Junior World Cup, Niemann recorded his birdies on the 1st, 4th, 8th, 10th and 15th holes.

For John his round at Sage Valley Golf Club included six birdies and a lone bogey. The native of Australia rolled in his first birdie on the 4th hole and then additional birds on Nos. 6, 7, 10, 14 and 15. Last year John's signature victory came at the Argentine Amateur.

 

 

In third place Kaito Onishi of Japan is in third place at 4-under while American Cole Hammer, Adrien Pendaries of France and American Brandon Gillis are sharing fourth at 2-under.

http://www.juniorinvitational.com/leaderboard/

Edited April 20, 2017 by Mama_Bull

[Mama_Bull]

After the second round, Niemann is one stroke back at -7 for the tourney. 

Won Jun Lee is at even par.

http://golfweek.com/2017/04/21/min-woo-lee-leads-junior-invitational-after-joaquin-niemanns-late-triple-at-sage-valley/

 

Also, http://www.pga.com/pga-america/pga-information/top-finishers-junior-invitational-sage-valley-earn-exemptions-boys

 

[Mama_Bull]

Brentley Romine‏ @GolfweekBRomine  30m30 minutes ago

And they're off! #JrInviteSage

 

Leaderboard: http://www.golfchannel.com/tours/special-event/2017/junior-invitational-sage-valley/

[Mama_Bull]

BULLS EYE THREE-PEAT AT AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP

 

EVENT: American Athletic Conference Championship
SCHEDULE: Sunday, April 23 – Tuesday, April 25
LOCATION: Innisbrook Resort, Palm Harbor, Fla.
COURSE: Copperhead Course (par 71, 7,125 yards)
LIVE SCORING: Golfstat.com
TWITTER UPDATES: @USFMGolf
CHAMPIONSHIP CENTRAL
TEE TIMES

 

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Quotables

Head coach Steve Bradley’s thoughts heading into Sunday:

“We’ve had a pretty good April and I think everyone is pretty confident in their game right now. It’s a golf course that we got a chance to play twice over the past month or so. Several of them played it in junior golf, so it’s one they’re fairly familiar with. I think it’s going to play a little differently than what they’ve seen with the lack of rain. It’s pretty firm and fast, and everyone will have to adjust to that."

Bradley on the overall strength of the conference this season:

“The conference is pretty deep. In the past, I think we’ve had a couple teams ranked a little better than what we see this year, but the depth of this conference is really good. We’re going to put at least three teams, possibly even five out nine, into NCAA Regionals. When you have a conference like that, you know you need to go out and play well. With this golf course, the best team is going to win. It’s not a fluke golf course and you’re not going to be able to get lucky out here. The team that wins this will have played the best and certainly have earned it. There are many teams in our conference that have the ability to win, we just hope we’re the one.”

 

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Golfstat Relative Ranking

AAC Seeding

1 UCF #46

2 Houston #54

3 USF #56

4 SMU #75

5 Cincy #87

6 ECU #91

7 UCONN #118

8 Memphis #127

9 Temple #222 

 

 

http://www.golfstat.com/2016-2017/rankhth.cfm?gender=M

 

 

 

Edited April 22, 2017 by Mama_Bull