Sept. 21, 2016
Senior Matthias Schwab will compete in the World Amateur Team Championship Wednesday through Saturday for Austria in Riviera Maya, Mexico, at the Mayakoba El Camaleon and Iberostar Play Paraiso golf courses.
Schwab, ranked the fifth-best amateur in the world in the latest World Amateur Golf Rankings, will compete with fellow countrymen Markus Maukner and Michael Ludwig in the four-day competition.
The championship will feature players in teams of two or three representing nations who are affiliated to the IGF. Each team member plays 18 holes of stroke play for four days.
In each round, the total of the two lowest scores from each team constitutes the team score for the round. The four-day (72-hole) total is the team’s score for the championship.
The United States is the reigning champion in the biennial event.
Vanderbilt named top men’s golf program in the nation
In a story done by USA Today, the Vanderbilt men’s golf program was named the number one collegiate program in the nation in a ranking that takes into account both the quality of the golf team, as well as the academic success of the players and the quality of the school.
From USA Today:
Scott Limbaugh became head coach of the Commodores in 2012 after five years as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Alabama. Vanderbilt has graduated every men’s golfer in the last decade.
Vanderbilt is a very exclusive school with accepted applicants having an average SAT score of 1490. Its student to faculty ratio is 8 to 1, and it is the top-ranked school in Tennessee. Economics, social sciences and interdisciplinary studies are the most popular majors at Vanderbilt.
Snedeker begins Tour Championship this weekend at East Lake
Vanderbilt alum Brandt Snedeker, ranked 11th this year in the FedEx Cup Points race, will tee off at 1:10 p.m. ET Thursday at East Lake in the this year’s Tour Championship, which features the 30 best players on the PGA Tour this year.
The 2012 FedEx Cup champion still has a chance to win this year’s championship with a win at East Lake and these other scenarios:
– No. 1 must finish T6 or worse
– No. 2 must finish T4 or worse
– No. 3 must finish T3 or worse
– No. 4 must finish in a 3-way tie for second or worse
– No. 5 must finish T2 or worse