HARDEEVILLE, S.C. – The UConn men's golf team will tee it up at the 2024 BIG EAST Championship presented by JEEP this weekend as the event returns to the Riverton Pointe Golf and Country Club.
Championship play will get underway on the par 72, 7,158 yard course on Saturday morning at 8 am for the three round event. Saturday's pairing will be determined by team seedings while Sunday and Monday's groupings are set off the previous day's leaderboard.
The Huskies along with the field of Butler, Creighton, DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Seton Hall, St. John's, Villanova and Xavier will battle for this year's crown and automatic berth to the 2024 NCAA Championship. The individual medalist also receives an NCAA Championship invitation. UConn is on the hunt for the program's third BIG EAST title, winning their first in 1994 and most recently in 2021.
What will it take for the Huskies to win a third conference trophy and a fourth tournament this season? UConn head coach Dave Pezzino says discipline and patience for a team he see moving in the right direction.
"Three days of highly disciplined golf and a lot of patience. I think the golf course sets up for a conference championship very well. I think that we are trending the right direction, which is important, but most importantly we have the maturity to understand what it takes – using good course management skills, patience, decision making will be an important aspect this week."
As a team, these Huskies have found success up and down their lineup throughout the season. UConn has won three tournaments this season, the UConn Invitational, BIG EAST Match Play and the Surf Club Invite, and finished second at another, the Rutherford Invitational while four different Huskies have claimed BIG EAST Golfer of the Week honors this season.
Individually, a pair of Huskies have won tournaments in sophomore Connor Goode (Glastonbury, Conn.) at the UConn Invite, and junior Ray Dennehy (Princeton, Mass.) at the Surf Club Invite, and two others take home runner-up honors in senior Tommy Dallahan (Simsbury, Conn.), at the Rutherford, and freshman Bradley Sawka (Ellington, Conn.), at the Bridgestone Collegiate.
Dallahan heads into the championship weekend tied with Goode and Dennehy for the team lead in rounds played this year and has a team low 71.9 per round average. He's fired 13 rounds at par or better this season with five top-20 finishes including three top-10's. Classmate Jimmy Paradise (Tampa, Fla.), who missed the entire fall slate with an injury, posted a 72.2 per round average this spring over six events. He had two top-10 finishes.
For the second straight year, GKLive.TV, will provide online coverage of the Championship and the broadcast is entirely free and available HERE. Live stats for all the action will also be available HERE.
This year's league championship is back at the Riverton Pointe Golf and Country Club after playing the event there last season where Marquette took home the team title. Dallahan along with former Husky Jared Nelson finished tied for 14th to pace UConn.
"The course was in great shape when we were down there last time and they have had some really great weather so I am excited to see the golf course in late April."
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