Pirates Open Fall Season at Alex Lagowitz Memorial - Seton Hall University Athletics
The Seton Hall men's golf team will open the 2022 fall season with three rounds of golf at the Alex Lagowitz Memorial at Seven Oaks Golf Club, September 4-5.
HAMILTON, N.Y. - The Seton Hall men's golf team will open the 2022 fall season with three rounds of golf at the Alex Lagowitz Memorial at Seven Oaks Golf Club, September 4-5.
The annual event, now in its fifth 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 3-4, 2022
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 12 other schools: Binghamton, Bucknell, Canisius, Cornell, Lafayette, Lehigh, Rhode Island, Robert Morris, St. Bonaventure, and Yale. Fellow BIG EAST opponent, Villanova, is also in the field.
Pennsylvania, with former Seton Hall head coach Clay White at the helm, is also in the field of 14.
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…
- Angus O'Brien, Sophomore
- Wenliang Xie, Senior
- Wanxi Sun, Junior
- Brody Hanley, Junior
- Jack Bosworth, Freshman
- George Fricker, Freshman
Individual: David Lally, Freshman
LAST TIME AT THE LAGOWITZ MEMORIAL:
Former Pirate Gregor Tait fired a 2-over-par, 74, in the final round for a top-10 finish and the Pirates finished second at the Alex Lagowitz Memorial last fall.
Tait claimed his sixth career top-10 finish after using two birdies and an eagle on the par-5, No. 7 hole to fuel his third round. For the tournament, he shot a 1-over-par, 70-73-74-217, to tie for ninth place among 90 individual golfers. Tait finished just three strokes behind the individual champion, Colgate's Dugan McCabe.
As a team, the Pirates climbed two spots in the final standings to second place after a 2-over-par, 290, in Sunday's final round. The Hall finished with a 13-over-par, 296-291-290-877, and placed 15 strokes behind the team champion, Yale.
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 RESULTS:
Live scoring will be available throughout the tournament via Golfstat.com. Complete results of each day's events will also be available following competition at SHUpirates.com.
