#10 Razorbacks Ready for Another SEC Championship

FAYETTEVILLE – The Tenth-ranked Arkansas males’s golf workforce will look to proceed its latest run of success versus convention foes at this week’s SEC Championships, performed in St. Simons Island, Ga., for the twenty first straight yr.

Stroke play – to find out the person champion and the highest eight groups that may advance – can be performed Wednesday-Friday (April 20-22). Match play – to find out the workforce champion – can be performed Saturday (quarterfinals and semifinals) and Sunday (championship).

SEC Community will cowl the ultimate on Sunday from the opening match beginning at 6:30 am (CT).

The latest Razorback run began in 2019 when then-freshman Julian Perico led Arkansas to its first SEC workforce title since 1995. Finally yr’s SEC Championship, Arkansas reached the SEC match play closing, falling to Vanderbilt (3-2) on the ultimate putt of the ultimate gap of the ultimate match. Nevertheless, the Razorbacks didn’t come up empty as Segundo Oliva Pinto gained the person title whereas going 3-0 in match play. (The 2020 SEC Championship was canceled on account of COVID.)

This previous fall, the 14 convention members got here collectively to play the inaugural SEC Match Play occasion. Arkansas defeated Mississippi State, Ole Miss and LSU earlier than getting its revenge over the Commodores with a 3-2 victory within the closing to win the title. Oliva Pinto, Luke Lengthy and Juan Camilo Vesga had been every 3-1 over the 4 matches whereas Wil Gibson and Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira every had convincing 5&3 wins within the closing.

General this season, Arkansas is 14-3 versus SEC groups.

SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
April 20-24
Sea Island Golf Membership (Seaside Course) || St. Simons Island, Ga.
7,005 yards || Par 70

SCHEDULE
Wed. – April 20: Stroke Play (18 holes)
Thurs. – April 21: Stroke Play (18 holes)
Fri. – April 22: Stroke Play (18 holes) – Particular person champion topped; high 8 groups advance to match play
Sat. – April 23: Match Play (quarterfinals and semifinals)
Solar. – April 24: Match Play (Championship on SEC Community)

Subject:
#42 Alabama
#15 Auburn
#10 Arkansas
#16 Florida
#12 Georgia
Kentucky
#25 LSU
#21 Ole Miss
Mississippi State
#45 Missouri
#22 South Carolina
#18 Tennessee
#19 Texas A&M
#3 Vanderbilt

Razorback Lineup:
Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira (1)
Luke Lengthy (2)
Julian Perico (3)
Segundo Oliva Pinto (4)
Wil Gibson (5)
Juan Camilo Vesga (Alternate)

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