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UCONN INVITATIONAL AT GREATHORSE
UConn Golfers Host Tournament At GreatHorse
9/30/2022 7:55:00 PM | Men's Golf
UConn Athletic Communications / Oct. 1, 2022
HAMPDEN, Mass. – Off to a solid start in the 2022-23 season with two top five finishes and led by one of the hottest college golfers in the country, the UConn men's golf team hosts its annual event starting this weekend, the UConn Invitational at GreatHorse.
UConn will be the host school, joining 13 other teams and eight players playing as individuals for a total of 78 players taking on the challenging 7,093-yard, Par 72 course. The tournament is a three-round, 54-hole event of stroke play, scheduled for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 2-4. The tournament will also feature a live stream on 10 holes of GreatHorse at https://gamekast.live/golf-stream-event
The tournament also starts off a month of cancer awareness for the Huskies, who, during all events in October, will wear pink shirts adorned with the initials of friends and loved ones who have been affected by the dreaded disease.
The Huskies have played two events leading up to the GreatHorse tourney and have posted two Top 5 finishes – coming in tied for fifth place among 15 teams at the Doc Gimmler Invitational on the Bethpage Park Red Course in Bethpage, N.Y., and coming in third of 16 teams at the Hartford Hawks Invitational at Bull's Bridge Golf Club in South Kent, Conn.
But perhaps the bigger story of the Huskies' early season has been the play of grad student Jared Nelson (Rutland, Vt.), who has carried a summer of outstanding play into the college season. Nelson won the Gimmler Invitational with a brilliant 15-under, 195, and tied for the runner-up spot in the Hawks Invitational with an 11-under, 205.
Nelson, who has been named the BIG EAST Player of the Week in each of the past two weeks, is averaging 66.7 per round this season, with a low round of 63. He currently is riding a streak of six consecutive sub-70 rounds.
Junior Jimmy Paradise (Tampa, Fla.) is second on the UConn team in average per round at 70.2, with freshman Colin Spencer (Mashpee, Mass.) third at 71.5.
Nelson, Paradise and Spencer will lead the UConn team into the tournament and will be joined by sophomores Eric Boulger (Walpole, Mass.) and Trevor Lopez (Westchester, Mass.) to round out the Huskies.
Other members of the UConn team, who will be playing as individuals, include senior Logan Broyles (Mendon, Vt.), junior Tommy Dallahan (Simsbury, Conn.), sophomore Vikram Konanki (Newton, Mass.), and freshmen Connor Goode (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Chris Sacher (Schoeffengrund, Hesse, Germany).
The rest of the teams in the 2022 UConn Invitational field include Bryant, Fairleigh Dickinson, Hartford, Iona, Lafayette, LIU, Rhode Island, Rider, Seton Hall, St. John's, Saint Joseph's, Siena and Xavier.
UConn came in second to Rhode Island in last year's Invitational, while UConn's Caleb Manuel won individual medalist honors.
GreatHorse, the site of the 2018 Mass Open, is one of the most picturesque courses in all of New England, owned by the Antonacci family, owners and breeders of magnificent harness race horses.
After purchasing the former Hampden Country Club in January, 2012, the Antonacci family embarked on a $55 million overhaul and redesign by New England-based golf course architect Brian Silva that transformed the country club into the impressive facility that it is today.
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