Georgia at the Calusa Cup to End Regular Season
Starting on Sunday, April 7, the No. 20 Georgia men’s golf team will play in the Calusa Cup, which is being hosted by Iowa at the Calusa Pines Golf Club in Naples, Florida, to wrap off the regular season.
Graduates Connor Creasy, Ben van Wyk, Caleb Manuel, a junior, Buck Brumlow, and a freshman, Camden Smith, will be in the Bulldogs starting lineup.
BULLDOG EDITION
The Calusa Cup is a par 72 competition that takes place at the Calusa Pines Golf Club and has a total length of 7,203 yards. The course was created by Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry and opened for play in 2002. It has a slope of 148 and a rating of 75.3. The final round is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. on Tuesday. The first and second rounds will begin at noon ET on Sunday and Monday, respectively.
Georgia will be participating in the Calusa Cup for the third consecutive year. In 2022, the team’s total of 24-over, 888 placed them in sixth place; in 2023, they finished in fifth place with a 21-over, 885 total.
The host Iowa, No. 16 Florida, No. 15 Georgia Tech, No. 34 Wake Forest, No. 28 Purdue, Miami (OH), and Nebraska make up the field of eight. The Bulldogs will battle with the Yellowjackets in this competition for the third time in a row.
Last Time Out: On March 30 at TPC Harding Park, Georgia won its second event victory of the year, winning The Goodwin title with a one-under-par 839 total.
Georgia shot the second-lowest round of the competition with a third-round score of five under 275. In their inaugural year of competition, the Bulldogs defeated nine teams that were ranked in the top 50. This season, the program has won many team titles after winning the Puerto Rico Classic in February.
Georgia was one stroke ahead of Utah in second place. With a four-over, 844 finish, host team No. 44 Stanford finished third. Nos. 8 Tennessee and No. 15 Georgia Tech finished fourth and fifth, respectively.
Van Wyk, who finished the weekend in third place, set the pace for the squad. The graduate had his best finish of the year and his fourth career top-five finish with a three-under, 207. Van Wyk had three birdies and an eagle on the course’s two par five holes, finishing with the second-best par five average of the competition (4.17).
Dawgs on the Scoreboard: In the Polls Georgia rose to No. 20 in the team standings, driven by Clippd rankings that were updated on Wednesday, April 3, after taking first position.
In the PGA TOUR University rankings, van Wyk moved up to a season-best of No. 28 after a third-place outing in San Francisco. Creasy also moved up to personal-best of No. 35, while Manuel sits at No. 65.
Golfer of the Week: After earning his fourth career top-five finish, graduate van Wyk has been named the Southeastern Conference Golfer of the Week, the league office announced on Wednesday afternoon.
The George, South Africa native earned his best finish of the season of t-3rd at The Goodwin, shooting three-under-par, 207. His total first and second rounds of 69 and 67 upped his season total of rounds in the 60s to seven and is now at 30 in his career.
Van Wyk began the tournament with an eagle, finishing number 10, a 562-yard hole, in three strokes on round one. He finished as one of eight in the 168-golfer field to card an eagle and one of 15 to shoot a round of 67 or better.
Brumlow and Behold: Junior Brumlow led the team to a career-best performance of t-4th at the Linger Longer Invitational, when he posted a score of 208 and 8-under. Three Bulldogs, including Brumlow, have participated in all eight events this season and placed in the top 20 in half of them.
Creasy Springs Forward: Creasy, an Abingdon, Virginia native, has held back on playing some of his greatest golf until his last semester of college. From the team’s last fall event, the Ka’anapali Collegiate Classic, the graduate student has finished in the top 15 five times in a row. The Puerto Rico Classic was Creasy’s finest event of the semester thus far, where he tied for third place at 14-under, also contributing to his
