Closing the Regular Season at Home

FRANKLIN, Tenn. – The No. 18/19-ranked Vanderbilt men’s golf team closes out the 2024-25 regular season this weekend on its home course, as the Commodores seek a sixth-straight team title at the Mason Rudolph Championship. Play takes place Friday through Sunday at Vanderbilt Legends Club in Franklin, Tennessee.

Tournament Format and Tee Times
The 2025 Mason Rudolph Championship is a 54-hole stroke play tournament that takes place at Vanderbilt Legends Club this Friday through Sunday. Due to inclement weather in this weekend’s forecast, this year’s event will feature continuous play, as teams attempt to complete as many holes as possible each day.

The tournament begins on Friday with an 11 a.m. shotgun start. Vanderbilt will tee off Round 1 from Hole 1A through Hole 4 on the South Course. Tee times for Saturday and Sunday, if needed, will be set at the end of the previous day.

All tee times at the 2025 Mason Rudolph Championship are tentative and subject to change.

Course Information
Due to inclement weather in the area, the 2025 Mason Rudolph Championship will be played on both the South and North Courses this weekend. Teams will play the front nine of the South Course and the back nine of the North Course. In total, the split course totals 7,114 yards and plays as a par 71.

The Field
An elite field that features 14 teams and some of the world’s top amateur golfers is set to participate in the 2025 Mason Rudolph Championship. Along with the No. 18/19 Commodores, a total of three teams ranked inside the top 25 of the Scoreboard rankings, powered by Clippd, will be in Franklin, Tennessee this weekend. Additionally, nine of the top 35 golfers in the World Amateur Golf Rankings will be competing at Vanderbilt Legends Club.

Teams playing at the Mason Rudolph Championship along with Vanderbilt include No. 2 Auburn, No. 5 Ole Miss, Ball State, Charlotte, Colorado, Kentucky, Liberty, Middle Tennessee, Mississippi State, Penn State, Princeton, Toledo, and Wisconsin.

Vanderbilt Lineup
Vanderbilt Lineup: 1) Jackson Van Paris 2) Wells Williams 3) John Broderick 4) Ryan Downes 5) Gordon Sargent

Vanderbilt Individuals: Chase Nevins, Rowan Sullivan, Bowen Ballis, Ben Loomis

Thomas F. Roush, M.D. and Family Men’s Golf Head Coach Scott Limbaugh on the 2025 Mason Rudolph Championship
“I’m excited for the opportunity we have this week to host our home event. We are super thrilled to get to host at Vanderbilt Legends Club and appreciative of everything their staff and members do for us. We are hopeful the weather holds off for us and hope everyone can come out and support our team and see all the other great players we have here this weekend Mason Rudolph was a special person to Vanderbilt golf, he was a gentleman, and he loved the game and it’s an honor to host a tournament with his name on it.

“It’s our final regular season event and a great opportunity to take a step forward before heading into championship season. The guys are excited and we need to have a collective energy about this tournament. We are in pursuit of trying to play our best tournament of the year and I want our guys to play with an aggressive spirit and have some fun.”

Live Results
Fans can follow all of the action at the 2025 Mason Rudolph Championship via live results at GolfStat.com.

Parking Information
Fans can park in the main parking lot of Vanderbilt Legends Club. There will be overflow parking located at the First Presbyterian Church of Franklin near the entrance of Vanderbilt Legends.

The Last Time Out
Vandy finished the 2025 Valspar Collegiate Invitational in ninth place after carding 9-under 843 over three rounds of play at the Floridian National Golf Club.

Junior Wells Williams paced the Commodores in the Sunshine State by tying for 16th. The West Point, Mississippi, native concluded his stay at the Floridian National Golf Club at 5-under 208. It is the junior’s fourth top-20 finish of the 2024-25 season and his first since winning the Southwestern Invitational. Williams wrapped up the Valspar Collegiate at par or better in each round, posting scores of 67-71-70. The junior shot par on a team-best 38 holes and collected Vandy’s lone eagle of the tournament, which came in Round 1 on Hole 13.

The Commodores at the Mason Rudolph
This year marks the 23rd edition of the Mason Rudolph Championship. The annual event began in 2001 and has been held every season since outside the COVID pandemic, where it was canceled in 2020 and played as the Vanderbilt Legends Collegiate in 2021.

Vandy has won five-straight team titles at the Mason Rudolph Championship and has won the event a total of nine times. Last season, the Dores took first place after posting a three-round total of 30-under 822. Additionally, Vanderbilt has finished in first place in seven of the last eight Mason Rudolph Championships.

Senior Gordon Sargent seeks to become the first golfer to win the event in three-straight seasons. The 2021 NCAA individual champion captured the individual title at each of the last two Mason Rudolph Championships. Sargent won the event for the first time in 2023, as he carded 17-under 196, then captured his second title in 2024 after finishing at 11-under 202. Sargent and Florida’s Sam Horsfield (2016, 2017) are the only two golfers to win multiple Mason Rudolph Championships in the event’s history.

A total of six Commodores have won seven Mason Rudolph Championships, which includes Brandt Snedeker (2002), Luke List, (2005), Matthias Schwab (2015), Hunter Stewart (2015), John Augenstein (2018), Cole Sherwood (2022), and Gordon Sargent (2023, 2024).

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