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UCONN INVITATIONAL AT GREATHORSE
GOLFERS SET TO HOST UCONN INVITATIONAL AT GREATHORSE
10/2/2021 9:34:00 AM | Men's Golf
EVENT FEATURES 16 TEAMS
UConn Athletic Communications / Oct. 2, 2021
HAMPDEN, Mass. – After missing 2020 because of COVID-19, the UConn Invitational at GreatHorse golf tournament has returned to the Huskies' schedule in 2021.
UConn will be the host school, joining 15 other teams and 10 players playing as individuals for a total of 90 players taking on the challenging 7,093-yard, Par 72 course. The tournament is a three-round, 54-hole event of stroke play, scheduled for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
The Huskies, the 2021 BIG EAST Conference champions, have played two events so far in the 2021-22 season, earning two Top Five finishes, a second at the Doc Gimmler Invitational and a fifth at the Hartford Hawks Invitational.
Sophomore Caleb Manuel (Topsham, Me.), last year's BIG EAST Freshman of the Year, is leading the Huskies in scoring this year, averaging 70.5 strokes per round. Sophomore Tommy Dallahan (Simsbury, Conn.) follows, averaging 71.5, with senior Jared Nelson (Rutland, Vt.) third on the team, averaging 72.2. Joining the trio in the UConn lineup at GreatHorse are senior Nick Hampoian (North Reading, Mass.), averaging 73.2 and junior Logan Broyles (Mendon, Vt.), averaging 75.0.
Four other Huskies will play as individuals – sophomore Jimmy Paradise (Tampa, Fla.), and freshmen Eric Boulger (Walpole, Mass.), Vikram Konanki (Newton, Mass.) and Trevor Lopez (Winchester, Mass.).
The rest of the UConn Invitational field includes Army, Bryant, Columbia, Fairleigh Dickinson, Hartford, Hofstra, Iona, Lafayette, LIU, Navy, Rhode Island, Rider, St. John's, Sacred Heart, and Siena.
GreatHorse, the site of the 2018 Mass Open, is one of the most picturesque courses in all of New England, owned by the Antonacci family, owners and breeders of magnificent harness race horses.
After purchasing the former Hampden Country Club in January, 2012, the Antonacci family embarked on a $55 million overhaul and redesign by New England-based golf course architect Brian Silva that transformed the country club into the impressive facility that it is today.
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