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Tech Golf Closes Fall Schedule with East Lake Cup
THE FLATS – Ranked No. 14 in the latest Scoreboard NCAA Golf Ranking, Georgia Tech’s golf team closes out its fall season by competing in the 10th annual East Lake Cup, a prestigious event bringing together the 2024 NCAA Championship semifinal teams, men and women, for a three-day stroke and match play competition.
The tournament, held at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, begins with a stroke-play round of 18 holes Monday, after which an individual medalist will be crowned, and continues with semifinal matches on Tuesday and concludes third-place and championship matches Wednesday. Seeding for the match play semifinals is based on team standing after Monday’s stroke play round.
The Yellow Jackets finished third in stroke play last year, lost to North Carolina in their semifinal match and defeated Florida in the third-place match. Kale Fontenot (Lafayette, La.), a freshman at the time, won medalist honors.
In four events this fall, Tech recorded a victory at the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational, where the Yellow Jackets bested No. 2 Arizona State by a stroke and a 15-team field that included 11 other top-25 teams, a seventh-place finish in its home event, the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate Invitational last week, and a pair of eighth-place finishes at the Visit Knoxville Collegiate and the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational.
The men’s field for the East Lake Cup also includes defending NCAA Champion Auburn, currently ranked No. 4 in the nation, Florida State (No. 32) and Ohio State (No. 55).
Stroke play begins Monday at 10:30 a.m. for the women’s teams and 11:42 a.m. for the men’s teams. Players are paired in foursomes, one player from each team. Matches begin at 10:40 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday. Admission is free.
Head coach Bruce Heppler, in his 30th year at the helm of the Tech program, has returned four golfers who played significant roles in getting the Yellow Jackets to the semifinals of the NCAA Championship for the second straight year in 2024, including reigning NCAA Champion Hiroshi Tai (Singapore), who became Tech’s fourth national collegiate champion with his one-shot victory last May in Carlsbad, Calif.
Kale Fontenot shows off the Charles R. Yates Trophy after winning medalist honors as a freshman at last year’s East Lake Cup. (photo by Clyde Click)
TECH LINEUP – Redshirt junior Benjamin Reuter (Naarden, The Netherlands) has been Tech’s top player this fall, posting a runner-up finish at Olympia Fields, a tie for 14th at the Ben Hogan and a tie for 15th at the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate Invitational. He is ranked No. 32 in the Scoreboard NCAA rankings.
Tai, listed on the Fall Watch List for the Fred Haskins Award and as a pre-season All-American by Golfweek magazine and Golf Channel, has three top-20 finishes this fall and is ranked No. 84 in the NCAA Scoreboard rankings. leads the five-man contingent for the Yellow Jackets this weekend. The junior from Singapore won twice as a freshman prior to his NCAA Championship.
They are joined in the lineup for the East Lake Cup by Fontenot, the medalist at last year’s Cup, freshman Albert Hansson (Fiskebäckskil, Sweden), who is ranked No. 112 in the WAGR, and junior Aidan Tran (Fresno, Calif.), who stepped in to play three stroke play rounds and win a match at last year’s NCAA Championship.
EAST LAKE CUP INFORMATION – The 10th annual East Lake Cup takes place Monday through Wednesday at East Lake Golf Club, which hosts the final event of the FedEx Cup Playoffs on the PGA Tour each year. The competition includes each of the four men’s and women’s semifinal teams from the previous year’s NCAA Championship. East Lake Golf Club will measure 7,195 yards and play to a par of 72.
Golf Channel and Peacock will provide live coverage of the competition from 3-6 p.m. each day.
Competition Schedule
- Monday, Oct. 28 (stroke play): 10:30 a.m. | Golf Channel coverage: 3-6 p.m. (live); 8-11 p.m. (replay)
- Tuesday, Oct. 29 (match play semifinals): 10:40 a.m. | Golf Channel coverage: 3-6 p.m. (live); 8-11 p.m. (replay)
- Wednesday, Oct. 31 (match play finals and consolation): 10:40 a.m. | Golf Channel coverage: 3-6 p.m. (live); 8-11 p.m. (replay)
Men’s teams: Auburn, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Ohio State; Women’s teams: LSU, Oregon, Southern California, UCLA
Format – The tournament format features 18 holes of stroke play to determine an individual male and female champion, and to set seedings for team match play. There will then be two rounds of match play to determine a team champion, along with a consolation match to determine third place.
Full Steam Ahead
Full Steam Ahead is a $500 million fundraising initiative to achieve Georgia Tech athletics’ goal of competing for championships at the highest level in the next era of intercollegiate athletics. The initiative will fund transformative projects for Tech athletics, including renovations of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field (the historic home of Georgia Tech football), the Zelnak Basketball Center (the practice and training facility for Tech basketball) and O’Keefe Gymnasium (the venerable home of Yellow Jackets volleyball), as well as additional projects and initiatives to further advance Georgia Tech athletics through program wide-operational support. All members of the Georgia Tech community are invited to visit atfund.org/FullSteamAhead for full details and renderings of the renovation projects, as well as to learn about opportunities to contribute online.
ABOUT GEORGIA TECH GOLF
Georgia Tech’s golf team is in its 30th year under head coach Bruce Heppler, winning 73 tournaments in his tenure. The Yellow Jackets have won 19 Atlantic Coast Conference Championships, made 33 appearances in the NCAA Championship and been the national runner-up five times. Follow Georgia Tech Golf on social media by liking their Facebook page, or following on X (@GTGolf) and Instagram. For more information on Tech golf, visit Ramblinwreck.com.
What started with an application to volunteer with Fulton County Animal Services turned into thousands of lives saved.
In 2014, Jennifer Siegel stopped by Fulton County Animal Services to volunteer and ended up leaving as a foster parent.
Bosley, the 3-week-old puppy she fostered, became the inspiration for Bosley’s Place in Smyrna. The nonprofit is an animal rescue that provides bottle feeding and 24-hour care for orphaned or homeless neonatal puppies.
“Usually, their worst day is also their best day because they get to join the rescue when it’s all over, from their happiness forever,” Siegel said.
Three weeks after Bosley was born, he was found abandoned at Grant Park in a trash can.
He ended up at Fulton County Animal Services just before Siegel walked in.
“I just happened to be in the right place, wrong time, wrong place, right time?” Siegel said. “I’m not really sure, but it was also timing for me. Like, everything aligned, and I started this rescue because once I realized that I could save a life, I was like, I think I’m addicted.”
It was that moment, that right place at the right time, that led Siegel to create Bosley’s Place.
The rescue provides puppies with comprehensive medical care, around-the-clock care, and bottle feeding.
“It is very unusual for a rescue to do as much in-house vetting as we do,” Siegel said. “But the truth is, it’s necessary when you know, to vet a single puppy could, you know, from birth till adopted, and that includes surgery, it could be $1,000. I can cover the majority of those costs here in-house. Which helps a great deal.”
Siegel and her team of trained volunteers will also foster the puppies themselves — just like Mateo.
She said Mateo came in as just skin and bones. He had a parasite that made him appear to be blind and deaf.
His foster parent and Bosley’s Place volunteer, Tori Paquin, said that by the first week, he started to look like a different dog.
“His hip bones were starting to disappear, his tail looked like a skeleton, and it started to get some cushioning, his hair started to grow back, and he just started to be interested in all of the puppy things again,” Paquin said.
The puppies are ready for adoption at 8 weeks old, and prospective adopters undergo an in-depth screening process.
In fact, some families will adopt more than one puppy from Bosley’s place.
“We love their mission,” said Kyle Isaacs. “We track their dogs pretty much year-round at this point. And, yeah, we just decided that it was time to add to the family again.”
Tejal Shah and her family are also adopting their second puppy from Bosley’s Place. They stopped by to introduce Bruno to his new “partner-in-crime.”
“I was the most excited to see Bruno’s interaction with the little guy,” Shah said. “And he seems to love him. It’s so cool. Bruno needs a friend.”
If you are interested in volunteering, fostering, adopting a puppy, or donating to Bosley’s Place, click here.
SAVANNAH, Ga. – State agents are investigating after three officers shot a man on Saturday in Savannah following a domestic dispute where a child was reportedly thrown into a dumpster, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
What we know:
Savannah police responded to an apartment on Emerald Drive around 2:45 p.m. after receiving a 911 call from a woman who was being chased from an apartment by a man, a release from the GBI states.
Officers arrived and determined that a domestic dispute had happened between a woman and Malik Hendrix, 23.
Witnesses reported seeing that a child had been thrown into a dumpster during the dispute. The child had been reunited with its mother by the time police arrived. The child was then taken to the hospital for evaluation and treatment.
The victim identified Hendrix and showed police a photo of him.
As officers were wrapping up their investigation, Hendrix allegedly approached police and asked if they had been looking for him.
He then reached inside his jacket. While he was reaching, officers told Hendrix to show his hands, but he did not comply and pulled something from his jacket, pointing it at officers, police said.
Three officers shot at Hendrix, hitting him several times.
The GBI said the object Hendrix was holding was a cellphone. A K9 was also released at the time of the shooting, causing additional injuries to Hendrix.
He was taken to a local hospital for treatment. No officers were injured.
The GBI will lead this investigation.
What we don’t know:
It is unclear what Hendrix will be charged with. The officers involved in the shooting have not been publicly identified. Hendrix’s condition is unknown.
What’s next:
The Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office will review the case once an investigation is complete.
The Source: Information in this report comes from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
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