KENNESAW, Ga. – Just six days following the final round of the Cullan Brown Collegiate in Lexington, the Bellarmine men’s golf team will be back in action in northern Georgia.
 
Event: Pinetree Intercollegiate
 
Host: Kennesaw State University
 
Dates: Monday, Oct. 14 and Tuesday, Oct. 15
 
Times: Tee times off No. 1 and No. 10 beginning at 8 a.m. on both days
 
Course: Pinetree Country Club
 
Location: Kennesaw, GA
 
Schedule of Play: 3 rounds (36 holes on Monday, 18 holes on Tuesday)
 
Par: 72
 
Yardage: 7,108
 
Course Rating: 75 (via golflink)
 
Slope Rating: 141 (via golflink)
 
Participants (10): Augusta (individuals only), Bellarmine, Belmont, Bradley, Georgia State, IU Indianapolis, Kennesaw State, Morehead State, Tennessee Tech, UT Martin, West Georgia.
 
Bellarmine Starters: Ballard Harris (redshirt senior), Kash Albarado (junior), Graydon Laughlin (freshman), Luke Bischoff (junior) and Hudson Hummel (grad student).
 
About the Knights: Harris is coming off a top-10 finish at Kentucky’s Cullan Brown Collegiate. The Trinity product finished at plus-9, four strokes back of the leaders, after carding rounds of 74, 75 and 73. He finished the event with seven birdies and has yet to shoot over a 75 in any of his six rounds this season. Albarado carded three 79s at UK after finishing the SIUE event at even par. Laughlin is coming off a strong showing in his collegiate debut in which he finished tied for 57^th, but was second-best among the Knights. Bischoff will look to bounce back after a tough showing at UK in which he finished at plus-25. He finished at minus-1 at SIUE. Hummel will be making his season debut after starting five of the Knights’ 11 events last year and averaging 76.5 strokes per round.
 
Live Scoring: via Golfstat
 
About the Course: “Originally designed by the noted architect Chick Adams and opened in 1962, Pinetree Country Club’s 18-hole championship golf course has long been regarded as among the finest private golf courses in Georgia. Pinetree’s sublime parkland beauty and challenging layout attracted the Georgia State Amateur Championship in 1976, 1985, 2003 and 2013. The club was also selected by the Georgia PGA to host the 2014 Georgia Open, as well as qualifying for numerous Georgia and U.S. Amateur Championships. … The renovated 7,108-yard championship par-72 golf course will test every club in a golfer’s bag while winding through and around picturesque rolling hills to play holes framed by towering Georgia pines, flowering shrubs, native hardwoods, babbling brooks and sparkling ponds.” –PinetreeCC.org
 
Last Time Out: The Knights finished 14^th out of 15 at Kentucky’s Cullan Brown Collegiate.
 
Last Time at Event: Bellarmine placed seventh out of 10 participants at this event last October. Davis Billows was the Knights’ top finisher at plus-2, tying for 12^th in a field of 58. He carded a career-best 68 in the final round to help the team finish at minus-5, the only team score under par for the third round. Luke Bischoff bounced back from a tough first round to close out with a pair of even-par 72s to tie for 35^th. Additionally, Kash Albarado tied for 38^th, Frankie Morgan tied for 42^nd and Patrick Brooks tied for 48^th.
 
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