The Back Nine comes at you after a really nice weekend for the mighty Gators on so many levels. 10. We will start with what happened with baseball, because after the Thursday loss I think a lot of us had the obits ready to go for this year’s team. …
Read More »Gilligan Wins First Golf Tournament As Gator
Florida men’s golf team transfer Ian Gilligan won his first tournament Tuesday in the Orange and Blue. The Gators finished fourth in the Southern Highlands Collegiate in Las Vegas, but Gilligan’s 208 (-8) score landed him atop of the leaderboard and an exemption into the PGA Tour’s Shriners Children’s Open …
Read More »Gilligan Ties Program Record; UF Leads At Gators Invitational
In the first day of the Gators Invitational, the UF men’s golf team saw a shot at history. Junior transfer Ian Gilligan’s 62(-8) score on day one tied a UF record set in 2003 by Camilo Villegas at the Atlanta Intercollegiate. His bogey-free round puts him in first among all …
Read More »Gators Men’s Golf Wins Sea Best Invitational For 3rd Straight Year
The Florida Gators men’s golf team has completed the three-peat! After a strong day one, Florida was able to hold off North Florida on its way to its third consecutive Sea Best Invitational win Tuesday at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach. It was the Gators seventh overall win at …
Read More »Fred Biondi Crowned 2023 NCAA Individual National Champion
It was a historic day for Florida Gators men’s golf as Fred Biondi became the third Gator of all-time to claim the individual title. The Orange & Blue kept writing in the history books as the Gators advanced to the match play for the first time in program history. https://twitter.com/GatorsGolf/status/1663361612860850179?s=20 …
Read More »Gators Men’s Golf Begins National Championship
Friday morning, the Gators men’s golf team began the NCAA Golf National Championship at Grayhawk Golf Course in Scottsdale, Arizona. The team tee’d off at 9:10 a.m. and is currently three-under par. After trailing by five strokes on the final day of the Bath Regional, the Gators were able to …
Read More »Florida Men’s Golf Knocks Off Top-Ranked Vandy to Capture First SEC Title in Over a Decade
The Gators won 3 1/2 points in their match-play final Sunday against Vanderbilt — the nation’s top-ranked team — to win the SEC Championship at Sea Island Golf Club in St. Simons Island, Georgia. https://twitter.com/GatorsGolf/status/1650194263450300423 The victory marks Florida’s 16th conference title in program history and its first since 2011. https://twitter.com/GatorsGolf/status/1650201085808721921 …
Read More »Florida Men’s Golf Enters Third Day of SEC Championship Just Two Strokes Off Lead
Florida men’s golf is in third place at the SEC Championship entering Friday’s final stroke-play round at Sea Island Golf Club in St. Simons Island, Georgia. The Gators shot a 3-under-par opening round Wednesday followed by a 7-under-par second round Thursday. With 18 holes to play ahead of Saturday’s match-play …
Read More »Three Gators Finish Top-20 at Men’s NIT Golf in Arizona
Seniors Fred Biondi and Ricky Castillo as well as redshirt freshman Matthew Kress placed top-20 at the NIT in Tucson, Arizona, as Florida men’s golf finished seventh out of 13 teams. The two-day, 54-hole tournament was held at Omni Tucson National Resort eight top-25 ranked teams including the number 12 …
Read More »Gator Men’s Golf Travels to Sin City in Search of Third Straight Spring Victory
After winning back-to-back events to begin the year, Florida men’s golf will travel to Las Vegas, Nevada, to compete in the Southern Highlands Collegiate. The three-day, 54-hole event hosted by UNLV will kick off Sunday at noon at Southern Highlands Golf Club. Participants 15 schools will compete in the tournament …
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