Golf Set to Open Fall at Alex Lagowitz Memorial

HAMILTON, N.Y. — For the seventh consecutive season, the Villanova males’s golf staff will start its fall slate of tournaments on the Alex Lagowitz Memorial hosted by Colgate on the Seven Oaks Golf Course Sept. 6-7. 

The Wildcats had a stellar end finally 12 months’s Alex Lagowitz Memorial, ending fourth out of 15 universities. 

The Event

A two-day occasion, the Alex Lagowitz Memorial is 54 holes — 36 Saturday, 18 Sunday — and can have a shotgun begin at 9 a.m. each days. 

The Course

Seven Oaks is a public, 18-hole course that was opened in 1965. It is 7,125 yards lengthy with a par of 72. The course was designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. throughout the Nineteen Thirties and hosted the 1977 NCAA National Tournament, the central New York cease on the 1990 Ben Hogan Tour (now referred to as the Korn Ferry Tour) and the 2010 Patriot League Championship.

The course was ranked No. 8 on the checklist of Top Collegiate Golf Courses by NBC Sports GolfMove in January 2024.

Wildcats Lineup

Villanova head coach James Wilkes‘ first lineup of the season consists of 4 returners and two newcomers to the staff. 

In the primary spot is senior Matt Zerfass, who’s coming to his second season with the Wildcats. Zerfass averaged a 75.60 in his first marketing campaign at VU and is trying to construct upon final season. 

Hitting second off the tee is two-time Second Team BIG EAST choice and reigning particular person Alex Lagowitz Memorial champion, Ryan Pamer. Pamer is coming off probably the most profitable seasons in Wildcats historical past, recording two particular person wins on the season. 

Sophomore Vibhav Alokam follows. Alokam is coming into his second season after a profitable freshman marketing campaign final season which noticed the Michigan native shoot a mean of 74.40. 

The first newcomer within the lineup is freshman Luke Leonard, who begins his collegiate profession teeing off fourth. Leonard brings in a golf heritage as his father, Justin Leonard, performed for the University of Texas and is at present on the PGA Tour.

Graduate Brockton English holds the fifth spot as he begins his VU profession after transferring throughout city from Drexel. English was an everyday within the lineup for 3 years with the Dragons. 

Senior Joshua Lavely rounds out the lineup. Lavely enters his fourth season with the Wildcats, the place he has shot a mean of 77.52. 

Live scoring of the Alex Lagowitz Memorial will be discovered here.