UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State men's golf team is set to play in five prestigious tournaments this fall across all regions of the east coast and four different states, with trips set to New York, North Carolina, West Virginia and Tennessee beginning in early September.
"This schedule takes us to four sites where we have had success," said head coach Greg Nye, who enters his 30th season with the Nittany Lions. "It is helpful to have some golf course and event familiarity going into these competitions."
Penn State returns to fall competition for the first time since 2019, as the 2020 fall season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Nittany Lions open fall action on Sunday-Monday, Sept. 5-6 in Verona, N.Y. when Penn State heads to the Turning Stone Tiger Invitational hosted by Missouri at Turning Stone Resort's Kaluhyat Course Course.
Penn State then returns to a pair of familiar locations in North Carolina, beginning with the Rod Myers Invitational hosted by Duke in Durham, N.C. on Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 11-12. The Nittany Lions will play in the tournament that is named for the longtime Duke men's golf coach who lost his battle with leukemia in 2007 for the fourth time in the last five years. Penn State won the event in the fall of 2018.
The Nittany Lions will then participate in the Old Town Club Collegiate on Monday-Tuesday, Sept. 27-28, in Winston-Salem, N.C. The tournament, hosted by Wake Forest, takes place at the Old Town Club course, a par-70 layout on 1,000 acres of rolling terrain, was designed in 1938 by renowned architect Perry Maxwell.
A trip to West Virginia follows as the Nittany Lions will compete in the Health Plan Mountaineer Invitational on Monday-Tuesday, Oct. 4-5. Penn State is set to make its first showing at the Pete Dye Golf Club since 2015 when the Nittany Lions won the Mountaineer Intercollegiate.
Penn State closes out the fall portion of its schedule on Sunday-Tuesday, Oct. 10-12, at a familiar tournament, the Bank of Tennessee. The event has been the anchor of Penn State's fall slate for the last eight years that the team was able to hold fall competition. Penn State has captured the championship in 2015 and again in 2017, adding the Nittany Lions to the winners' list, a veritable "who's who" list of collegiate golf. Three of the program's top 10 individual low round scores were achieved at the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate with a 54-hole tournament team score tied for the second-best mark all-time.
The 2021 fall schedule can be found HERE.
