The 3rd Annual Kaua’i Collegiate Cup golf tournament teed off Friday at the Princeville Resort’s Makai Golf Course. Results for the tourney will be posted by TGI Sports upon completion. The annual event is hosted by Western Kentucky University and
The 3rd Annual Kaua’i Collegiate Cup golf tournament teed off Friday at the Princeville Resort’s Makai Golf Course.
Results for the tourney will be posted by TGI Sports upon completion.
The annual event is hosted by Western Kentucky University and will welcome seven other mainland schools to vie for the championship.
The competition is being played over the Makai course’s “Ocean” and “Lakes” nines, which plays to 6,886 yards. Designed by reknowned golf course architect Robert Trent Jones, Jr., the Princeville Makai Course is ranked by Golf Digest as one of America’s Top 100 Golf Courses and one of the world’s Top 50 Resort Courses.
The 54-hole event is expected to be closely contested with two-time runner-up West Kentucky, Xavier University, and University of Connecticut being tabbed as the early favorites.
The host school, WKU, is having a record-shattering season behind the play of defending Kaua’i Collegiate Cup individual champion and All-American candidate Eric Mason. In the fall, the Hilltoppers broke tournament and school records on several occasions, firing a 54-hole team score of 14-under par (850) at the Fall Beach Classic in Gulf Shores, Alabama. That score broke the school record of 8-under par set earlier in the season by the Toppers at Ball State. WKU also set a new tournament record of 854 at the Xavier Provident Invitational in Mason, Ohio.
The complete field for the 2002 Kaua’i Collegiate Cup includes: The University of Akron, American University, Boston College, University of Connecticut, Eastern Michigan University, Marquette University, Western Kentucky University, and Xavier University.
