Men’s Golf to Tee-Off Spring Season at the Colleton River Collegiate

Monday, March 7

Bluffton, S.C.

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Colleton River Collegiate

Men’s Golf to Tee-Off Spring Season at the Colleton River Collegiate

March 06, 2016 | Men's Golf

By: by Kevin Davis, Assistant Director for Athletic Communications

Live Scoring: BirdieFire.com
Twitter: @BGMensGolf

Bowling Green, Ohio – After posting three top-four team finishes over six fall tournaments, the Bowling Green State University men's golf team will tee-off the 2016 spring season on Monday and Tuesday, Mar. 7-8, at the fourth annual Colleton River Collegiate hosted by Michigan State University in Bluffton, South Carolina.

Held at the par 72, 7,403-yards Pete Dye Course of the Colleton River Plantation Club, the two-day event will consist of 54-holes or three rounds of golf and will begin with a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. and 36 holes on Monday, Mar. 7.

The final round of play will take place on Tuesday, Mar. 8, with an 8:00 a.m. shotgun start.

It will be the Falcons' first taste of competition on the links since finishing 16th overall at the Ka'anapli Collegiate Classic five months ago back on Nov. 6-8.

This year's tournament field will include a total of 13 teams in host Michigan State, Bowling Green, Ball State, College of Charleston, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Memphis, Miami (Ohio), North Texas, Rutgers, Toledo, Xavier and Queens University of Charlotte (N.C.). Six of the 13 teams are currently ranked in Golfweek's Top-100, led by No. 41 Memphis and No. 44 Michigan State. Other top-100 squads include No. 63 College of Charleston, No. 70 North Texas, No. 90 Connecticut and No. 95 Miami (Ohio).

"We are so excited to get outside and get a chance to play for the first time this year," commented head coach Kevin Farrell. "We have been able to do a lot of work inside over the winter and look to build on the strong fall season we had. This is a very tough course and we are playing against a very talented field with a lot of ranked teams. It will be a good test for us early."

BGSU's lineup for the spring opener will be a familiar one in Jose Narro, Pablo Heredia Iglesias, Brett Rinker, Trey Walker and Cameron Michalak.

Narro will compete for the Falcons at the No. 1 spot for the seventh time this season having played as the top Falcon in all six of BGSU's fall events. The junior, who played in the 2016 Latin America Amateur Championships for his country Mexico in January, recorded a stroke average of 72.29 over 17 rounds of play during the 2015 fall season. He had three top-15 finishes, highlighted by a third-place showing at the Joe Feaganes Marshall Invitational, and carded five sub-par rounds on the year including a season-low round 66 over the second round of play at the Marshall Invite.

Heredia Iglesias will once again tee-off for the Falcons at the No. 2 position in the BGSU lineup, where he has competed for Coach Farrell all season long. The first-year Falcon ranks third on the team with a stroke average of 73.53 over six tournaments thus far this year, which was highlighted by a fourth-place finish at the ODU/OBX Intercollegiate and a fifth-place showing at the Cleveland State Invitational. Heredia Iglesias has twice posted 54-hole scores under par and has turned in three sub-par rounds over the fall season, highlighted by a BGSU career-low round 66 in the first round of play at the ODU/OBX Intercollegiate.

Like both Narro and Heredia Iglesias, Rinker will make his seventh straight appearance in the lineup for the Falcons on the year, competing once again at the No. 3 slot. Rinker led the Falcons and the MAC with a stroke average of 71.82 over the 2015 fall season. The junior turned in three top-15 finishes, which included a runner-up finish at the Mountaineer Intercollegiate with a 36-hole score of 140, -4 under par. He has registered a sub-par round six times this year, highlighted by a low round 69 over the final 18 holes of play at the Joe Feaganes Marshall Invitational.

Making his fourth appearance in the Falcon lineup this week, Walker will complete for Orange and Brown at the No. 4 position. The first-year Falcon has posted a stroke average of 76.00 over eight rounds of play and three total events thus far this year, and shot a low round 72 over the second round of play at the ODU/OBX Intercollegiate. He also finished in a tie for 37th-place at the Mountaineer Intercollegiate with a 36-hole score of 153, +9.

Michalak will tee-off for the BGSU lineup at the No. 5 spot this week. The sophomore, who will be playing in his sixth event on the year and the fourth as a member of the Falcons' lineup, posted a stroke average of 74.86 over 14 rounds of play over his fall season. He finished in a tie for eighth overall at the ODU/OBX Intercollegiate with a BGSU career-low 54-hole tournament score of 213, even par, with rounds of 71, 68 and 74. Michalak also carded a BGSU career-low round 65 in the third and final round of play at the Joe Feaganes Marshall Invitational in early September.

Playing as individuals in the two-day event for the Falcons will be Max Rispler, Eli Stacy and Ethan DeForest.

Rispler played in two events last fall, playing as an individual at the Joe Feaganes Marshall Invitational and at the Rocket Individual Classic. The first-year Falcon, who transferred in over the summer from South Alabama, has recorded a stroke average of 76.60 over five rounds of play thus far this year and turned in a low round 72 at the Marshall Invitational.

Both Stacey and DeForest played in the Rocket Individual Classic over the fall season. Stacey carded rounds of 82 and 80 to finish in 16th-place overall with a 36-hole score of 162, +18, while DeForest turned in rounds of 77 and 87 to place in a tie for 17th-place with his two-round combined score of 164, +20.

Live scoring will be available for all three rounds at www.BirdieFire.com.

About the Colleton River Plantation Club
Located along the Atlantic Ocean, the Colleton River Plantation Club hosted the 2015 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship that was broadcasted live by FOX Sports last July. Colleton River is a 1,500 acre, member-owned golf community that is surrounded on three sides by water. The Pete Dye Course, which opened in 1998, is a links-type course with unobstructed views of Port Royal Sound and the Atlantic Ocean on 11 of 18 holes.

In addition to hosting the 2015 U.S. Junior Amateur, Colleton River's Pete Dye Course has hosted eight USGA qualifiers since 2005, including three U.S. Opens, four U.S. Amateurs and one U.S. Senior Open. The course also has held the South Carolina Amateur Championship in 2001 and 2011.

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