Murray State
Tennessee Tech
Tee Time: Racers Set To Play at Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate
3/13/2021 2:25:00 PM | Men's Golf
Murray State competes in a field of 15 teams in Sevierville, Tenn.
The Murray State men's golf team competes in a field of 15 teams at the Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate (March 14-16) at Sevierville Golf Club in Sevierville, Tenn. The 54-hole event will be played on the River course, which is a par-72 layout at a length of 6,891 yards.
The event, hosted by Tennessee Tech, is the eighth annual and finds the Racers in the field for a fifth time and for a third-straight time. MSU's tee time Sunday for the first round is at 10:40 a.m. CT. Round two is Monday and the final round is Tuesday.
Racer coach Eddie Hunt sends out the same starting five as last week when the team placed fourth at the Butler event in Jacksonville, Fla. MSU's starting five is: : Avery Edwards, Connor Coombs, Austin Knight, Quinn Eaton, Tyler Powell. The Racers don't have any solo players in this event.
The Racers appear at the Nichols event for the fifth time and look to match or surpass the second and third place finishes they had in 2015 and 2016, when Preston French became MSU's only medalist with a first place finish in 2016 on scores of 67-75-71=213. The 2020 staging of the tournament was cancelled because of the pandemic. The Racers finished 13th in 2019 on a score of 903.
Live scoring can be found at GolfStat.com.
About Coach Bobby Nichols
The 54-hole event is held in honor of the late Tennessee Tech golf coach of 32 years, Coach Bobby Nichols, a member of the TTU Hall of Fame (1990) and Ohio Valley Conference Hall of Fame (2011). A former student-athlete golfer at TTU, Nichols played three years playing on the PGA Tour and returned to TTU to launch the women's team in 1986. He coached the TTU men's golf squad to the 1990 OVC Championship and guided the Tech women's golf team to the 2000 and 2001 OVC Championships and was named OVC Coach of the Year in each of those seasons.
About Murray State Men's Golf
The Racers' program is in its 64th season overall and head Coach Eddie Hunt is in his 20th as the second coach in program history. Hunt took over the program in 2001. The founder of the Racer team was Coach Buddy Hewitt in 1959. Hewitt is a Murray State Hall of Famer, inducted in 1990. He was part of the famous Murray State football team that played in the 1948 Tangerine Bowl. The Racers have won Ohio Valley Conference championships four times (1971, 1987, 1991 and 2010). Hewitt won the first three titles and Hunt's team won it in 2010 as their most recent OVC championship. MSU has produced 11 all-time OVC Golfer of the Year winners: Bill Graham (1962, 1963), Ron Acree (1965), Chris Piggot (1971), Chris Carlson (1987), Adam Grogan (1996), Brandon Henson (2001), Nick Newcomb (2010), Cameron Carrico (2011) and Patrick Newcomb (2012, 2013).
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