University of Illinois
Southern Highlands Collegiate
Illini Men’s Golf Takes On Southern Highlands
February 26, 2022 | Men's Golf
PREVIEW
| Illinois at Southern Highlands Collegiate | |
|---|---|
| Tournament | Southern Highlands Collegiate |
| Date | Feb. 27 - March 1 |
| Location | Las Vegas, Nev. |
| Course | Southern Highlands Golf Club (Par 72 / 7,510 Yards) |
| Live Scoring | Golfstat |
| Illinois | Roster | Schedule | Season Statistics |
| Shop | Fighting Illini Store |
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LAS VEGAS, Nev. – The Illinois men's golf team, rated No. 19 nationally by Golfstat, returns to the course this week to challenge a formidable field at the 2022 Southern Highlands Collegiate. The three-day event, hosted by UNLV, will be played Sunday through Tuesday, Feb. 27-March 1.
THE SETTING
The Southern Highlands Collegiate is hosted at the Southern Highlands Golf Club in Las Vegas, Nev. The course, co-designed by the legendary Robert Trent Jones, Sr., and his son Robert Trent Jones, Jr., features the natural beauty of the desert, including mountainous terrain to create sweeping elevation changes, beautiful ponds and waterfalls, deep-faced bunkers and challenging, bent grass greens. The par-72 course spans 7,510 yards.
TOURNAMENT FORMAT
The 54-hole tournament will be a five-count-four format played over three days, with 18 holes slated for each day of competition. Tee times are set, off of Nos. 1 and 10, beginning daily at 11 a.m. CT/9 a.m. PT.
THE FIELD
The field includes 15 of the nation's top programs vying for the title, highlighted by nine programs rated inside the top 50 by Golfstat. The No. 19 Illini are joined by No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 5 Pepperdine, No. 9 Georgia, No. 12 Georgia Tech, No. 15 Texas, No. 24 Florida, No. 29 New Mexico and No. 35 Northwestern. The rest of the field is made up of UCLA, TCU, SMU, and San Diego, plus defending champion Southern California, and host UNLV.
FIGHTING ILLINI LINEUP
No. 1: Adrien Dumont de Chassart
No. 2: Piercen Hunt
No. 3: Jackson Buchanan
No. 4: Tommy Kuhl
No. 5: Jerry Ji
LIVE SCORING
Live scoring for the Southern Highlands Collegiate will be available on Golfstat.com. A Recap and results will be posted on FightingIllini.com following each day of play.
PGA TOUR EXEMPTION
The individual champion at the Southern Highlands Collegiate will earn an exemption into the 2022 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, which is scheduled for Oct. 6-9, 2022 at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas.
ILLINI AT THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS INTERCOLLEGIATE
The Illini previously competed at the Southern Highlands Collegiate five times from 2015 through 2019. During that stretch, the team finished in the top 10 each year, including the program's best finish at the 2015 event in which the Illini finished sixth behind a sixth-place individual finish at 6-under (210) from then-junior Charlie Danielson. Nick Hardy captured back-to-back individual top-10s at the event with a 10th-place finish as a junior in 2017 and a tie for seventh as a senior in 2018. Michael Feagles was the last Illini to capture a top-10 finish at the Southern Highlands Collegiate, placing sixth at the 2019 event.
Senior Tommy Kuhl is the only member of the current Illini roster to have previously competed in the Southern Highlands Collegiate. As a freshman in 2019, Kuhl carded rounds of 80-71-76 to finish to finish +11 in a tie for 63rd.
UP NEXT
The Illini travel to Tucson, Ariz., to compete in the National Invitational Tournament hosted by the University of Arizona at Omni Tucson National Golf Club, March 18-19.
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