No. 21 Men’s Golf at the West Pines Collegiate

Monday, October 7 | 9 a.m. 

Tuesday, October 8 | 9 a.m. 

West Pines Golf Club | Douglasville, Ga.

•    The 21st-ranked Babson men’s golf team travels to the Atlanta suburb of Douglasville, Ga., to compete in the 54-hole West Pines Collegiate beginning on Monday morning. 
•    The Beavers are competing in the event, which is hosted by Oglethorpe, for the sixth time since 2018. 
•    The 19 teams in this year’s field will play 36 holes on Monday and 18 holes in Tuesday’s final round. 

2023 WEST PINES COLLEGIATE HIGHLIGHTS

•    Sean Fitzgerald ’23 M’24 followed up an opening round 70 with a 3-under 68 to tie for third place at 4-under as Babson finished second at the West Pines Collegite on October 2-3, 2023. 

•    Juniors Shane Quinn (73-75) and Tomas Amaya (77-71) tied for 22nd at 6-over, while senior John Baldwin (75-78) and sophomore Evan Eichenlaub (74-79) tied for 42nd position at 11-over for the Green and White. 

•    The Beavers shot 292-292 to post a 36-hole total of 16-over 584 to come in second behind Oglethorpe, which shot 282-279 to finish at 7-under. 

ABOUT THE BEAVERS

•    No. 21 Babson is coming off a tie for seventh place at the Williams Invitational back on September 22. 

•    Eichenlaub shot 72-73 to tie for second with a 36-hole total of 3-over 145 as the Beavers posted rounds of 307-303 to the weekend with a 42-over total of 610 that was 20 strokes behind tournament champion Gustavus Adolphus. 

•    Eichenlaub owns a pair of top-five finishes and is first on the team with a 72.75 stroke average in two events, while first-year Aman Vantipalli owns one top-15 finish and a 77.00 average in four rounds this fall. 

•    Amaya has a 76.50 stroke average in two starts and sophomore Jack Berry (77.00) and Baldwin (77.25) both tied for 27th at the Duke Nelson Invitational back on September 14-15. 

SUCCESS IN THE PEACH STATE

•    In five previous trips to Georgia for the West Pines Collegiate (previously the Royal Lakes-Oglethorpe Invitational), the Beavers own two wins and four top-four finishes. 

•    Babson tied for first with Greensboro in 2018 and posted a 12-shot victory in 2021 in addition to coming in fourth in 2019. 

ABOUT THE FIELD

•    The Beavers are one of four nationally-ranked teams set to tee it up at West Pines GC along with No. 4 Oglethorpe, No. 8 Lynchburg and 24th-ranked Piedmont. 

•    Additionally, Mary Hardin-Baylor, Berry, Greensboro and Transylvania were all receiving votes in the September 20 Bushnell Golfweek Coaches poll. 

BEAVER BITES

•    The West Pines Collegiate will serve as a homecoming for Vantipalli, who hails from Alpharetta, Ga., which is less than an hour from West Pines GC. 

•    Going back to the end of last season, Eichenlaub has gone T5-T5-T2 in his last three tournaments and has a 73.14 stroke average in seven rounds during this stretch. 

UP NEXT

•    The Beavers will wrap up the fall portion of their schedule at the Golfweek October Classic in Miramar Beach, Fla., on October 13-15.