OVC Golf Championship - Racers Seek To Send Coach Hunt Out In Style

The 2021 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Golf Championship begins Sunday morning as the event (April 25-27) is played at the Shoals Golf Club in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and it finds the Murray State Racers trying to send Coach Eddie Hunt out in a big way.

Coach Hunt, in his 20^th season leading the Racer men's golf team announced his retirement at the end of the 2021 spring season.

Since the win in 2010, the Racers have produced finishes of second (2015), third (2011 & 2012), fifth (2013, 2016 & 2017), eighth (2014), 10th (2018) and third in 2019. The 2020 championship was cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Eddie Hunt

The 54-hole test (April 25-27) is staged on the Fighting Joe course at The Shoals for the seventh consecutive time.

Murray State Lineup
Avery Edwards, Sr., Paducah, Ky.
Edwards is appearing in the OVC Championship for the third time. In 2017 he placed 11^th and made the OVC All-Tournament Team in 2019.

Austin Knight, Sr., Hopkinsville, Ky.
Knight is appearing in his fourth OVC Championship and has finishes of 13^th (2018) and 14^th (2019).

Connor Coombs, Sr., Central City, Ky.
Coombs is playing in his third OVC Championship with a 38^th and 44^th place finishes.

Quinn Eaton, Sr., Benton, Ky.
Eaton is set to play in his first OVC Championship.

Carson Holmes, So., Hopkinsville, Ky.
Holmes is playing in his first OVC Championship.

Racer OVC Tournament Facts & Records
First Appearance: 1959 (First year of Golf at MSU, OVC first season was 1949)
Championships: 4 (1971, 1987, 1991, 2010)
First Championship: 1971
Last Championship: 2010 Medalist Winners: 11 among nine players
First Medalist: Bill Graham (1962) Last Medalist: Patrick Newcomb (2013)
Low Team Single Round (Since 1978): 284 (2010, 2015)
High Team Single Round (Since 1978): 325 (1988)
*Low Individual Single Round: 66, Cameron Carrico (2011, finished fourth)
*Since 1978

Murray State – OVC Championship Runner Up
1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1970, 1975, 1983, 2001, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2015

Murray State - OVC Tournament Individual Medalist
1962 Bill Graham
1963 Bill Graham
1965 Ron Acree
1971 Chris Pigott
1977 Kevin Klier
1987 Chris Carlson
1996 Adam Grogan
2001 Brandon Henson
2008 Nick Newcomb
2010 Nick Newcomb
2013 Patrick Newcomb

Murray State - OVC All-Tournament Team
(Started in 1999)
2001 Brandon Henson
2002 Matt Stark
2003 Will Cox
2004 Kyle Shirley
2005 Jamie Frazier
2008 Nick Newcomb, Cameron Carrico
2009 Jared Wolfe
2010 Nick Newcomb, Jared Wolfe, Chris Griffin
2011 Cameron Carrico
2012 Patrick Newcomb
2013 Patrick Newcomb

Tournament Notes
2021 marks the 71^st playing of the OVC men's golf championship since the first in 1950. There are some years since 1950 that the event wasn't played. The 2020 championship was cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

About the Shoals
The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at The Shoals is home to two 18-hole championship courses and lies between the Wheeler and Wilson dams on the Tennessee River. Wheeler Dam is named in honor of General Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler - the only Confederate General to attain the same rank later in the United States Army.

The OVC Men's Championship has been held at The Shoals six times previously (2009, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019). For the OVC Men's Championship, the Fighting Joe course will be par 72 with a yardage of 7,258.

OVC Golf Championship - Racers Seek To Send Coach Hunt Out In Style

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Players Mentioned

Cameron Carrico

Connor Coombs

Quinn Eaton

Avery Edwards

Carson Holmes

Austin Knight

Patrick Newcomb

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