Pirates Look to Defend Title at Alex Lagowitz Memorial - Seton Hall University Athletics
The Seton Hall men's golf team will open the 2023 fall season with three rounds of golf at the Alex Lagowitz Memorial at Seven Oaks Golf Club, September 2-3.
Seton Hall opens the 2023 fall season at Seven Oaks Golf Club.
HAMILTON, N.Y. - The Seton Hall men's golf team will open the 2023 fall season with three rounds of golf at the Alex Lagowitz Memorial at Seven Oaks Golf Club, September 2-3.
The annual event, now in its sixth year, is played in memory of Seton Hall associate head coach Ian Lagowitz's son, Alex, who passed away in 2016. Alex was a former member of the Colgate men's golf team, which hosts this tournament.
Tournament Details:
ALEX LAGOWITZ MEMORIAL
Host: Colgate University
Location: Hamilton, N.Y.
Course: Seven Oaks Golf Club
Course Vitals: Par-72, 6,834 yards
Dates: September 2-3, 2023
THE COURSE:
Named for the ancestral home of the Colgate family, Seven Oaks Golf Club is nestled on the Colgate University Campus at the upper end of the Chenango Valley, in Hamilton, New York. In 1934, a young architect by the name of Robert Trent Jones was brought to Hamilton to begin work on designing the course as one of his first projects. Unfortunately, due to the great depression and WWII, the course and his plans were continuously postponed.
Jones was called back many times throughout the following years to redesign the course before a final version was accepted and it was not until 1956 that ground was broken on the first nine holes, officially opening on July 4th, 1958. Construction for the remainder of the course soon began and on September 4th, 1965 the last nine holes were opened for play.
Seven Oaks is characteristic of all Jones' courses, which include strategic deployment of water, along with extensive tee areas and large, expansive greens.
THE FIELD:
In addition to Seton Hall and host Colgate, the field includes 10 other schools: Binghamton, Bucknell, Cornell, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, St. Bonaventure, and Yale. Fellow BIG EAST opponent, Villanova, is also in the field.
THE FORMAT:
Teams will play six golfers and count the four lowest scores per round.
THE LINEUP:
Here's the season-opening lineup for the Pirates…
- Wenliang Xie, Graduate
- George Fricker, Junior
- David Lally, Sophomore
- Wanxi Sun, Senior
- Eli Shah, Freshman
- Patrick Kahanek, Sophomore
Individual: Brody Hanley, Senior
Individual: Joshua Lee, Junior
Individual: Angus O'Brien, Junior
Individual: Jack Bosworth, Sophomore
LAST TIME AT THE LAGOWITZ MEMORIAL:
Wanxi Sun (Danville, Calif.) fired a career-best 11-under-par to win the 2022 Alex Lagowitz Memorial and lift the Pirates to the team championship.
Sun put together his third consecutive sub-par round, using eight birdies to fuel a 2-under-par, 70, in the final round. For the tournament, he shot an 11-under-par, 67-68-60-205, to win the individual title by five strokes over the second-place finisher, Villanova's Ryan Palmer.
Sun's 205 is tied for the second-lowest par-72, three-round score in program history. Furthermore, his 11-under-par is tied for the most strokes under par ever for a Pirate. It's Sun's first career win and second career top-5 finish.
Collectively, The Hall fired a 4-under-par, 284, in round three to complete one of the greatest tournaments in program history. The Pirates shot a 23-under-par, 277-280-284-841, to win the team title by 12 strokes over second-place Yale. Seton Hall's lone BIG EAST competition, Villanova, finished a distant 8-over-par.
THE SCHEDULE:
The teams will play 36 continuous holes on Saturday, and one final round on Sunday. Both days will begin with a shotgun start at 9:00 a.m. The Pirates will be paired with golfers from Colgate and Villanova in round one.
THE RESULTS:
Live scoring will be available throughout the tournament via Spikemark.com. Complete results of each day's events will also be available following competition at SHUpirates.com.
