Bearcats Journey to Lexington for Cullan Brown Collegiate – College of Cincinnati Athletics

CINCINNATI – The Cincinnati males’s golf crew hits the highway to Lexington, Ky., for the Cullan Brown Collegiate beginning Monday at Lexington Country Club. The 15-team discipline will play 36 holes Monday earlier than an 18-hole spherical Tuesday. Play begins with a 9 a.m. shotgun begin each days.

Cincinnati’s lineup will include Ryan Ford, Leo Wessel, Connor McNeely, Rylan Wotherspoon and Davis Gochenouer, with Connor Cassano collaborating as a person.

The event is the fourth of 5 fall occasions for the Bearcats, who opened the autumn slate with a third-place end on the Folds of Honor Collegiate Sept. 8-10 earlier than delivering an 11-stroke victory on the 18-team Bearcat Invitational Sept. 15-16 at Coldstream Country Club and notching a fifth-place end on the Jim DeLapa Collegiate Sept. 28-29.

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Tournament History: This yr’s event is the second version of the Cullan Brown Collegiate, which honors the legacy of the late Cullan Brown, a member of the Kentucky males’s golf crew from 2018-20 and a 2019 All-SEC Freshman Team choice. The Bearcats didn’t take part within the inaugural Cullan Brown Collegiate in 2024.

The Course: The 7,255-yard, par-71 Lexington Country Club opened in 1913 was designed by Tom Bendelow and has undergone a sequence of renovations by Kevin Hargrave. Due to a scarcity of penalty areas and out of bounds areas, the greens are LCC’s final protection. Precision with irons to place the ball on the right facet of the inexperienced is crucial to success on the course set in horse nation northeast of Lexington. 

The Field: Along with Cincinnati and host Kentucky, the 15-team discipline contains Eastern Kentucky, Kennesaw State, Lipscomb, Memphis, Michigan, Mississippi State, North Alabama, N.C. State, Penn State, Toledo, Virginia Tech, West Virginia and Western Kentucky

BEARCATS IN 2025-26
Through three tournaments, sophomore Leo Wessel leads the Bearcats with a 69.78 scoring common and a pair of top-10 finishes, whereas senior Ryan Ford sits second with a 69.89 common and two top-10 finishes. Senior Rylan Wotherspoon has participated in all three occasions, notching a 71.67 scoring common, whereas senior Connor McNeely and sophomore Connor Cassano have rounded out the Bearcat lineup by three tournaments with averages of 71.89 and 72.33, respectively.

Wessel has performed six of his 9 rounds underneath par, whereas Ford has carded 5 rounds underneath par. 

CINCINNATI RUNS AWAY WITH BEARCAT INVITATIONAL
Three Bearcats completed within the prime 10 and Cincinnati tallied three-consecutive rounds at 6-under par en path to an 11-stroke victory over an 18-team discipline on the Bearcat Invitational at Coldstream Country Club Sept. 16.

The host Bearcats, who gained the occasion for the second time in 4 years, have been paced by Connor McNeely and Leo Wessel, who tied for sixth at 4-under, and Ryan Ford, who completed a stroke again in a tie for ninth. All 5 Bearcats completed within the prime 14 of the occasion.