No. 11 Men’s Golf to Close Fall Schedule at Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The No. 11 Alabama men's golf team will head to Alpharetta, Ga., to compete at the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate. The three day, 54-hole event, hosted by Georgia Tech, will mark the final event of the Crimson Tide's fall tournament campaign.

Alabama will tee off in the event, which will take place at the par 72, 7,092-yard Golf Club of Georgia, Friday morning on hole No. 10 at 7:20 a.m. CT, and will be paired alongside Duke and East Tennessee State.

The 14-team field features eight teams that competed at the 2024 NCAA Championship and seven who are currently ranked in the top 25 in the first set of rankings from Scoreboard powered by Clippd.

The Lineup

Alabama's lineup for the event features the same starting five featured in every event of the fall season, highlighted by a season-opening victory at the Folds of Honor Collegiate in September along with a pair of top 10 team finishes
The Crimson Tide will be led by Jonathan Griz, who tops the team with an overall stroke average of 70.44
Griz, who has finished in the top 20 in every event so far this season, also leads the Tide in average vs. par (+0.11), rounds of par or better (6) and rounds in the 60s (5)
Dominic Clemons (71.11) and Jack Mitchell (71.89) join Griz to lead Alabama, both averaging under 72.00 strokes per round on the season
Jones Free (72.33) and Nick Gross (74.13) round out the starting five in the event, respectively

Tournament Preview

This marks the seventh time that Alabama has competed in the event, and the Tide's first appearance since 2022
Six teams in the field finished in the top 15 at the 2024 NCAA Championship, including three that advanced to match play,
In addition to No. 11 Alabama, nine teams are ranked inside top 50 including No. 7 Virginia, No. 9 Georgia Tech, No. 10 Vanderbilt, No. 17 Tennessee, No. 18. Pepperdine, No. 24 Stanford, No. 39 UCLA, No. 44 Duke and No. 46 Charlotte
The field also features Clemson, East Tennessee State, USC and Washington