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Day One at Rod Myers Invitational
No. 12 Men's Golf Hosts Rod Myers Invitational This Weekend
9/13/2019 9:50:00 AM | Men's Golf
DURHAM, N.C. – The 12th-ranked Duke men's golf team opens its season this weekend by hosting the 10th annual Rod Myers Invitational at the Duke University Golf Club.
The 54-hole event will feature 36 holes of play on Saturday and an 18-hole final round on Sunday, with tee times beginning at 7:35 a.m. ET on Saturday and 7:55 a.m. ET on Sunday. The Duke University Golf Club was designed by Robert Trent Jones, Sr., and is a 7,154-yard layout. The event is open to the public, with free parking and admission.
Joining the Blue Devils in the 13-team field will be Charlotte, Cincinnati, East Carolina, Liberty, Louisville, Nebraska, No. 23 North Carolina, UNC Greensboro, Penn State, Princeton, Toledo and No. 6 Wake Forest.
This is the 10th season of the Rod Myers Invitational, which honors the Blue Devils' late head coach, who guided the program from 34 years from 1973 until his passing in 2007 after a battle with an acute form of leukemia. While at the helm of the Duke men's golf program, Myers coached 16 All-Americas, nine Academic All-Americas, 24 All-ACC selections and three ACC individual champions. In 2007, the university named the golf training center after him and an endowed athletic scholarship was created in his honor.
Myers' resume included 30 tournament wins for Duke, the 2005 ACC Championship title and seven NCAA Championships appearances.
"The main focus is Rod and his wife Nancy, and all the people they touched as a family," said head coach Jamie Green. "It was a true Duke family in the way he approached his coaching here. It's nice to be able to remember that, and bring that back each year. It's also so special to have Nancy join us here each year. She still knows so many of the coaches, some of which were mentored by Rod."
When Duke debuts on Saturday, Green will start a lineup of junior Evan Katz, senior Chandler Eaton, senior Steven DiLisio, junior Adrien Pendaries and junior Qi wen Wong. Senior Harrison Taee, sophomore Quinn Riley and junior Drew Powell will compete as individuals.
"It's interesting to host an event as the first one out of the gate, because you're going off a little on how guys were playing over the summer," said Green. "We've played this first event at home for a few years now, and it hasn't always been a huge benefit for us. So in our practices, I wanted to make sure we were focused on the right thing which was the Duke Golf Club – our greens, the sections that will host hole locations, how the rough is playing. We want to be focused on that."
Live scoring for the Rod Myers Invitational can be found at www.golfstat.com.
A two-time All-American, Eaton is back to lead the Blue Devils in his senior campaign. Coming off a summer that saw him make the cut at the U.S. Open, Eaton is second on the program's career scoring list with his average of 71.41. He is third all-time at Duke for number of rounds in the 60s (34) and third in number of rounds under par (50).
Eaton enters 2019-20 as a preseason first-team All-America selection.
Duke claimed back-to-back Rod Myers Invitational titles in 2011 and 2012 with former Blue Devil Julian Suri winning the individual medal both years. Penn State returns to defend its 2018 Rod Myers title, shooting a 12-under 852 and holding off Duke and North Carolina by two strokes.
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The 54-hole event will feature 36 holes of play on Saturday and an 18-hole final round on Sunday, with tee times beginning at 7:35 a.m. ET on Saturday and 7:55 a.m. ET on Sunday. The Duke University Golf Club was designed by Robert Trent Jones, Sr., and is a 7,154-yard layout. The event is open to the public, with free parking and admission.
Joining the Blue Devils in the 13-team field will be Charlotte, Cincinnati, East Carolina, Liberty, Louisville, Nebraska, No. 23 North Carolina, UNC Greensboro, Penn State, Princeton, Toledo and No. 6 Wake Forest.
This is the 10th season of the Rod Myers Invitational, which honors the Blue Devils' late head coach, who guided the program from 34 years from 1973 until his passing in 2007 after a battle with an acute form of leukemia. While at the helm of the Duke men's golf program, Myers coached 16 All-Americas, nine Academic All-Americas, 24 All-ACC selections and three ACC individual champions. In 2007, the university named the golf training center after him and an endowed athletic scholarship was created in his honor.
Myers' resume included 30 tournament wins for Duke, the 2005 ACC Championship title and seven NCAA Championships appearances.
"The main focus is Rod and his wife Nancy, and all the people they touched as a family," said head coach Jamie Green. "It was a true Duke family in the way he approached his coaching here. It's nice to be able to remember that, and bring that back each year. It's also so special to have Nancy join us here each year. She still knows so many of the coaches, some of which were mentored by Rod."
When Duke debuts on Saturday, Green will start a lineup of junior Evan Katz, senior Chandler Eaton, senior Steven DiLisio, junior Adrien Pendaries and junior Qi wen Wong. Senior Harrison Taee, sophomore Quinn Riley and junior Drew Powell will compete as individuals.
"It's interesting to host an event as the first one out of the gate, because you're going off a little on how guys were playing over the summer," said Green. "We've played this first event at home for a few years now, and it hasn't always been a huge benefit for us. So in our practices, I wanted to make sure we were focused on the right thing which was the Duke Golf Club – our greens, the sections that will host hole locations, how the rough is playing. We want to be focused on that."
Live scoring for the Rod Myers Invitational can be found at www.golfstat.com.
A two-time All-American, Eaton is back to lead the Blue Devils in his senior campaign. Coming off a summer that saw him make the cut at the U.S. Open, Eaton is second on the program's career scoring list with his average of 71.41. He is third all-time at Duke for number of rounds in the 60s (34) and third in number of rounds under par (50).
Eaton enters 2019-20 as a preseason first-team All-America selection.
Duke claimed back-to-back Rod Myers Invitational titles in 2011 and 2012 with former Blue Devil Julian Suri winning the individual medal both years. Penn State returns to defend its 2018 Rod Myers title, shooting a 12-under 852 and holding off Duke and North Carolina by two strokes.
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