ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Charlotte Men’s Golf completed round one of the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate on Friday (Oct. 18) in fourth place on the team leaderboard with a score of 284 (-4). Caden Baker (66, -6) leads the individual field by one stroke.

The tournament is held at the Golf Club of Georgia’s Lakeside Course. The par-72, 7,092-yard course is ranked 24th in the state of Georgia by Golf Digest. One of the most picturesque portions of the course are holes 11 through 14 as they play alongside Lake Windward.

THE FIELD (rankings from Scoreboard)

No. 7 Virginia, No. 9 Georgia Tech, No. 10 Vanderbilt, No. 11 Alabama, No. 17 Tennessee, No. 18 Pepperdine, No. 24 Stanford, No. 39, No. 44 Duke, No. 46 Charlotte, No. 53 USC, No. 58 Clemson, No. 122 ETSU, No. 126 Washington.

COACH’S CORNER

“I absolutely love everything about this event at Georgia Tech,” said coach Ryan Cabbage. “Without question it is one of the top events in all of college golf. The golf course is fantastic and has hosted the NCAA regionals along with several prestigious events. We will need to be good on some challenging par threes this week and then have quality wedge play to capitalize on scoring opportunities. If we do these things well, I think we can have a lot of success on this golf course. The field is one of the best & strongest fields on the college golf calendar, so we must be ready to go on all three days.”

CHARLOTTE LEADERBOARD

1st – Caden Baker 66 (-6)

14th – Seb Cave 71 (-1)

21st – Justin Matthews 72 (E)

50th – Conor Gough 75 (+3)

74th – Connor Warren 80 (+8)

ROUND TWO

Warren (9:00 a.m.), Cave (9:11 a.m.), Baker (9:22 a.m.), Matthews (9:33 a.m.), and Gough (9:44 a.m.) will tee off the second round for the Niners on Saturday. Live results can be found here.