Golf Team Announces 2022 Fall Schedule

VILLANOVA, Pa.—The start of the Fall 2022 golf season is exactly one month away. Villanova head coach James Wilkes announced his team’s schedule for the Fall campaign and the Wildcats will play in five events to kick off their 2022-23 slate of competition. The season begins with the team competing in the Alex Lagowitz Memorial at Colgate on September 3-4.
 
The upcoming Fall schedule offers Villanova a chance to face both BIG EAST opponents and strong competition from outside the conference, including other Philadelphia-area schools. In addition, the Wildcats have the opportunity to play at several premier courses as they look to build on the momentum that the team created during a successful 2021-22 campaign.
 
Villanova opens the season with a familiar stop on its schedule when it plays in the Alex Lagowitz Memorial. This is the third time in the past four years that the Wildcats will play in the tournament, which takes place at Seven Oaks Golf Club in Hamilton.
 
Another tournament in New York awaits Villanova during the second week of the Fall season. The Wildcats will play on the Red Course at Bethpage State Park from September 10-11 when they compete in the Doc Gimmler Classic. The tournament attracts strong competition from around the region each year and will be a good test for the team early in the season. Last year Villanova finished in the top half of the field at both the Alex Lagowitz and the Doc Gimmler tournaments.
 
Villanova will once again host the Wildcat Fall Invitational at Radnor Valley Country Club. The lone home tournament on the Fall schedule will be held on September 26-27, followed by two out-of-state tournaments during the month of October. The first of those is a new event on the Wildcats schedule as the team heads to the Xavier Invitational on October 10-11. The tournament is held at TPC River’s Bend in Maineville, Ohio.
 
Rounding out the Fall competition schedule is the ODU/Kilmarlic Invitational in Powells Point, N.C. from October 23-25. At this event last season Villanova recorded the best team score (279) in program history in the final round of the 54-hole tournament. The Wildcats shot 287-281-279 and finished in fourth place out of 17 teams with a tournament total of 847 (-5).
 
Wilkes and his Villanova squad are coming off a successful 2021-22 campaign which saw the team post its lowest stroke average since 2006. It was a remarkable year for the Wildcats on multiple fronts, as the team posted the highest team GPA among Villanova’s 24 varsity sports during both the Fall and Spring semesters.