FAYETTEVILLE – The Arkansas women’s and men’s golf programs, ranked 8th and 23rd respectively, will host the fifth annual Blessings Collegiate Invitational, presented by Tyson Foods, from Sept. 30-Oct. 2 (Mon.-Wed.) at the Blessings Golf Club. Live television coverage will be on GOLF Channel from 3:30-6:30 pm each day. Admission and parking are free.

The unique format includes:

• Men’s and women’s teams play the same course at the same time.
• Each school will have all five members of its team playing the same holes together. The best four scores each day count toward the team score.
• There will be 18 holes of competition each day with tee times starting at approximately 9 am each day.
• On Wednesday, a men’s team, a women’s team, an individual male champion, an individual female champion, a combined team champion and combined individual best-ball champions will be crowned.

The 2024 field includes Arkansas, BYU, Kansas State, Kent State, LSU, Louisville, Mississippi State, Missouri, Ohio State and Virginia Tech. Of note, the Razorbacks will field two sets of teams on both the men’s and women’s sides. One with five members to count for the team and individual titles and a group of individuals playing together that will be eligible to compete for medalist honors.

Arkansas women have won three of the four BCI team titles with Mississippi State winning in 2022. The Arkansas men won team titles in 2021 and 2023 with Alabama winning the inaugural men’s title and Texas A&M winning in 2022. Also, a Razorback woman has taken home medalist honors in three of the first four BCI’s. Arkansas’ Brooke Matthews won the first two, Miss State’s Julia Lopez Ramirez won in 2022, and Arkansas’ Maria Jose Marin won last season. The previous men’s champions were Kentucky’s Alex Goff (2020), Arkansas’ Luke Long (2021), Texas A&M’s Daniel Rodrigues (2022) and Arkansas’ John Driscoll III (2023). Arkansas also has three of the four combined team titles (2020, 2021 and 2023) and three of the four individual combined best ball championships (2020, 2021 and 2023). Texas A&M won the combined team in 2022 and Miss State had the combined individual medalists in 2022.

BLESSINGS COLLEGIATE INVITATIONAL
Sept. 30-Oct. 2 • 18 holes each day
Blessings Golf Club • Fayetteville, Ark.
Par 72 || 7,737 yards (M) • 6,501 yards (W)

Field (Current Coaches Rankings):
#23 Arkansas (M) • #8 Arkansas (W)
BYU (M) • BYU (W)
Kansas State (M) • #40 Kansas State (W)
Kent State (M) • Kent State (W)
#15 LSU (M) • #13 LSU(W)
#36 Louisville (M) • Louisville (W)
Mississippi State (M) • #16 Mississippi State (W)
#34 Missouri (M) • Missouri (W)
#32 Ohio State (M) • #38 Ohio State (W)
Virginia Tech (M) • Virginia Tech (W)

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