The University of Louisville Men’s Golf Team begins its fall season with a return trip to the Maui Jim Intercollegiate held Sept. 9-11 at the Mirabel Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz.
The team champion of the tournament will be crowned through 54 holes of golf. A 54-hole individual stroke play competition, contested simultaneously, will crown the Maui Jim Intercollegiate Individual Champion. This honor entitles the recipient exemption into a 2023-2024 season Korn Ferry Tour event.
The Cardinals traveled five student-athletes for the tournament. Senior Jiri Zuska, junior Max Kennedy, and sophomore Pierce Grieve, Jackson Brimfield and Sebastian Moss will compete in the team portion of the Maui Jim Intercollegiate. The Cardinals will tee off on Friday at 10:50 p.m. ET/8:50 a.m. MT.
The Mirabel Club is a par-70, 7,047-yard course. The Cardinals last played at the Maui Jim Intercollegiate in 2021 and finished fifth out of 14 teams.
Including Louisville, 18 teams will compete for the tournament title this weekend including East Tennessee State, Auburn, Wake Forest, Georgia Tech, Arizona State, Tennessee, Oregon, San Diego State, UCLA, Clemson, Arizona, FSU, Washington, New Mexico, Florida State, NC State, UNLV and Georgia State.
Louisville returns five golfers from last year who competed in five or more tournaments in Zuska (12), Kennedy (11), Franklin (8) and Grieve (5) and Moss. The Cardinals ended the season at the NCAA Norman Regional.
Zuska, an All-ACC performer last season, returns as the team’s top performer after securing a 71.33 stroke average.
by Rocco Gasparro