Men's Golf Opens Spring Campaign with Sea Best Invitational

Tee Time: No. 23 ranked North Florida makes its spring season debut on Monday at the Sea Best Invitational hosted by Jacksonville at TPC Sawgrass Dye's Valley Course.

EVENT: Sea Best Invitational
DATE: Monday-Tuesday, Feb. 4-5
LOCATION: TPC Sawgrass | Dye's Valley Course (Ponte Vedra, Fla.)
COURSE INFO: Par 70 / 6,873 yards
LIVE SCORING: Golfstat

TOURNAMENT FORMAT: Two-day, 54-hole event (36 holes with shotgun start at 8:00 a.m. on Monday | Double tee 8 a.m. start on Tuesday)
TOURNAMENT FIELD (14 teams): #13 Arkansas, #42 Campbell, East Carolina, #46 Florida, #39 Florida State, #61 Jacksonville, #35 Liberty, Lipscomb, McNeese State, #30 North Carolina, #26 NC State, #23 North Florida, #24 UNLV, USC Upstate

UNF LINEUP
1. Philip Knowles (70.47 avg.)
2. Travis Trace (71.93 avg.)
3. Andrew Alligood (73.64 avg.)
4. Michael Mattiace (71.33 avg.)
5. Cody Carroll (74.67 avg.)
IND - Jordan Batchelor (73.60 avg.)

NOTEWORTHY
- North Florida will be participating in its 8th Sea Best/JU Invitational
- UNF has finished Top 3 at event three times including a co-championship showing in 2014
- Ospreys were T6 last season
- Philip Knowles seeks to extend his current run of Top 15 finishes to six this season and seven consecutive overall
- Andrew Alligood looks to build on his best finish of the season, a fifth place showing at the fall finale in Hawaii
- Tournament field features 10 squads in the Top 100 highlighted by 5 teams in the Top 30

SCHROEDER THOUGHTS:
"It will be good to get our first stroke play event going. The guys are motivated to play well as we have not had much success in this event the last few years." - Head coach Scott Schroeder

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Players Mentioned

Andrew Alligood

Jordan Batchelor

Cody Carroll

Philip Knowles

Michael Mattiace

Travis Trace

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