#14 Arkansas Looks to Retain SEC Match Play Title

FAYETTEVILLE – Final 12 months, Arkansas gained 4 matches over three days to assert the inaugural SEC Match Play title. Nevertheless, 12 months two of the occasion – set for Sept. 25-27 – will likely be a special format and performed at a special course, albeit a spot Razorbacks have had success previously.

This 12 months’s SEC Match Play (hosted by Jerry Pate) will likely be performed Sunday by Tuesday in Vestavia Hills, Ala., on the par-70 Outdated Overton Membership. The 2022 format will likely be just like the Jackson T. Stephens Cup, that includes 54 holes of stroke play over the primary two days and utilizing these outcomes for seeding on day three for match play. Particularly, all 14 SEC faculties will compete in stroke play – 36 holes Sunday adopted by 18 Monday – with match play approaching Tuesday. The highest two finishers from stroke play will sq. off to find out the match play champion on day three, whereas the 12 different SEC groups will sq. off in East vs. West match play format.

Final 12 months’s SEC Match Play was contested at Birmingham’s Shoal Creek and gained by Arkansas due to wins over Mississippi State, Ole Miss, LSU and Vanderbilt. This 12 months’s venue is the positioning of the earlier Jerry Pate Intercollegiate – a fall occasion Alabama hosted for 35 years and an occasion that Arkansas participated in repeatedly for the reason that 1993-94 season.

Julian Perico gained the 2018 JPI title and Mason Overstreet claimed medalist honors in 2017. Additionally, a few of the lowest rounds and scores in Razorback historical past have come on the Outdated Overton Membership. Particularly, Perico shot the second-lowest 18 gap rating by a person (a 64 within the 2018 opening spherical), shot a 36-hole, school-record (129 in 2018), and shot the 54-hole, school-record (197 in 2018). Outdated Overton has moreover been the positioning for 4 of the varsity’s high 30 single-round scores, capturing 269 in spherical two in 2017 (T-4th lowest), 274 in 2018 and 2019 (T-Fifteenth lowest) and 275 in 2015 (T-Twenty fifth).

The 14-team area options 12 of the nation’s high 45 groups together with defending champion and #14 Arkansas in addition to 2021 SEC Match Play runner-up Vanderbilt, the top-ranked crew within the nation. Different high 25 groups are #3 Georgia, #12 Tennessee, #13 Auburn, #16 Georgia, #17 Texas A&M, #21 LSU and #23 Ole Miss.

SEC Match Play hosted by Jerry Pate
Sept. 25-26 – 54 Holes of Stroke Play
Sept. 27 – 1 Spherical of Match Play
Host Faculty: Alabama
Outdated Overton Membership || Vestavia Hills, Ala.
7,204 yards || Par 70

Discipline:
#32 Alabama
#14 Arkansas
#13 Auburn
#3 Florida
#16 Georgia
#21 LSU
Kentucky
#23 Ole Miss
Mississippi State
#41 Missouri
#33 South Carolina
#12 Tennessee
#17 Texas A&M
#1 Vanderbilt

Razorback Lineup:
Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira (1)
Manuel Lozada (2)
Julian Perico (3)
Wil Gibson (4)
Enrique Dimayuga (5)

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