DURHAM – Duke men's golf head coach
Jamie Green has announced the team's 2021 schedule, which has the Blue Devils set for seven regular-season tournaments beginning in mid-January and running through the ACC Championship in late April.
Duke will tee it up on the some of the best golf property in the southeast this season, including stops at Pinehurst No. 2, Dye's Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass, The Floridian in Palm City, Fla. and Capital City Club in suburban Atlanta.
The season begins January 17-19 with the Camp Creek Seminole Invitational at the Camp Creek GC in Panama City Beach, Fla. The three-day stroke play event is hosted by Florida State. Duke's Florida swing continues February 1-2 at Dye's Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., for the Sea Best Invitational and the Seminole Intercollegiate at the Seminole Legacy GC in Tallahassee February 18-21.
The Blue Devils are back in the Old North State for the Wake Forest Invitational at Pinehurst No. 2, which is slated for March 1-2 on the course that is annually ranked as one of America's greatest. Returning to Florida in mid-March, the Blue Devils will compete in the Valspar Collegiate Invitational at The Floridian GC in Palm City March 15-16.
The final two events in the regular season are two traditional stops for Duke -- the Hootie Intercollegiate at Bulls Bay in Awesdaw, S.C., March 28-30, and the Stitch Intercollegiate at MacGregor Downs CC in Cary, N.C., April 9-10.
The ACC Championship is slated for April 23-26 for the first time at the Crabapple Course at Capital City Club in Milton, Ga., with the NCAA Regionals set for May 17-19. The NCAA Championship will be contested at Greyhawk GC in Scottsdale, Ariz., May 27-June 2.
Duke has not competed since the Southern Highlands Collegiate, which was played March 1-3, 2020. The remainder of the Blue Devils' 2019-20 season, and the fall portion of this 2020-21 campaign were canceled by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Valspar, Bulls Bay, Stitch, ACC and NCAA Championships were all events on Duke's schedule that were canceled last season.
The Blue Devils' 2020-21 roster is anchored by upperclassmen
Steven DiLisio,
Adrien Pendaries,
Evan Katz,
Qi wen Wong, Quinn Riley and
Drew Powell, and includes four freshmen –
Cameron Martinez-Piedra,
Ian Siebers,
Daniel Uranga and
Jimmy Zheng. DiLisio, who is using the additional year of eligibility that the NCAA graduate student-athletes, is a team captain and currently enrolled as a graduate student in the Fuqua School of Business, .
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