HUSKIES SET FOR INAUGURAL BRIDGESTONE COLLEGIATE INVITE
NAPA, Calif. – The UConn men's golf team is back in on the course this week as they head to the West Coast to take part in the inaugural Bridgestone Collegiate Invitational at Silverado Country Club on March 25 and 26 as part of the PGA TOUR's Pathway to Progression.
The Huskies will head to Napa, California coming off their third team victory of the season last time out at the Surf Club Invitational in Myrtle Beach. The 54-hole event will take place over two days and is a competitive element of the Bridgestone Collegiate Development Program. The event features top-level NCAA Division I men's golf programs and historically Black colleges and universities in addition to four high-ranking individual golfers from underrepresented communities.
UConn are part of a field that will also feature three HBCU men's golf teams, with the individual winner earning an exemption into a 2024 Korn Ferry Tour event to be announced at a later date. The Huskies hit the links with with Arkansas Pine Bluff, BYU, tournament co-host Central Michigan, Elon, Florida A&M, Howard, Michigan State, Nihon (Japan), North Alabama, and Sam Houston State.
The UConn lineup this week will feature junior Ray Dennehy (Princeton, Mass.), senior Jimmy Paradise (Tampa, Fla.), freshman Alex Heard (Boca Raton, Fla.), senior Tommy Dallahan (Simsbury, Conn.), and sophomore Connor Goode (Glastonbury, Conn.) with freshman Bradley Sawka (Ellington, Conn.) competing as an individual.
Dennehy helped pace the Huskies to their win in the Surf Club Invite and earned BIG EAST Golfer of the Week honors for his efforts. He is the third Husky this season to earn conference accolades. Dennehy tied for medalist honors with a 10-under 203 (70-64-69). His second round 64 is the lowest round by a Husky this season and is tied for the second lowest round in program history. The junior finished the tournament with 13 birdies and one eagle.
On the season, he has had six rounds of par or better and a pair of top-10 finishes. Dallahan owns a 71.9 per round average, a team-low mark, with three top-20's and two top-10 finishes. Paradise who continues to work his way back from missing the fall with injury, is coming off his best three-rounds of the season shooting 210 with his season-low round of 65 at the Surf Club event.
Following this week's tournament the Huskies will head to Pawley's Island, S.C. for the Golfweek Invitational at True Blue Golf Club.
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