PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. – After a nearly nine-month layoff, the No. 25 Duke men's golf team returns to tournament action this weekend at the Camp Creek Invitational in Panama City Beach, Fla.
The ACC-only team event is hosted by Florida State, and in addition to the Blue Devils and Seminoles, includes No. 25 Clemson, No. 20 Georgia Tech, Louisville, No. 24 North Carolina, Notre Dame, Virginia, Virginia Tech and No. 17 Wake Forest. The pairings will be played in threesomes with each team playing together in two threesomes to avoid contact with golfers from other schools.
Each of the five ACC squads ranked in the Bushnell/Golfweek preseason Top 25 are scheduled to compete in the Camp Creek Invitational.
The three-day event begins Sunday at 10 a.m. ET with the first round, continues Monday at 10 a.m. for round two, and concludes Tuesday at 8:30 a.m.
Duke's five-man lineup includes seniors
Evan Katz (No. 1) and
Adrien Pendaries (No. 3), graduate student captain
Steven DiLisio (No. 4) and a pair of freshmen making their collegiate debuts in
Ian Siebers (No. 2) and
Jimmy Zheng (No. 5). Senior
Qi wen Wong will play individually.
Katz is coming off a junior season that saw him lead the Blue Devils with a 70.92 scoring average and post three top-10 finishes in the four stroke-play tournaments he played. Pendaries posted an average of 71.00 last season, also with a trio of top-10 finishes.
DiLisio, who is using the additional year of eligibility that the NCAA graduate student-athletes, is a team captain and currently enrolled as a graduate student in the Fuqua School of Business.
Seeing their first action as Blue Devils, freshman Siebers and Zheng each entered Duke as highly-ranked junior players. Zheng, from Auckland, New Zealand, was ranked No. 5 in the Golfweek junior rankings at the time of his signing and led his prep team to consecutive national titles in New Zealand's secondary school finals. Siebers, a Bellevue, Wash., native was ranked No. 22 by Golfweek when he signed and is a second-team Rolex Junior All-American.
Camp Creek Seminole Invitational
Date: Jan. 17-19
Host Course: Camp Creek Golf Club (Panama City Beach, Fla.)
Par: 72
Yardage: 7,159
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Duke Lineup
1.
Evan Katz (Sr.)
2.
Ian Siebers (Fr.)
3.
Adrien Pendaries (Sr.)
4.
Steven DiLisio (Gr.)
5.
Jimmy Zheng (Fr.)
Individual -
Qi wen Wong (Sr.)
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