Navy Men’s Golf Set to Host Its First Fall Tournament Since 2016

Tournament Details
Event: The Goat, hosted by Navy
When: Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 21-22
Where: Naval Academy Golf Club, Annapolis, Md. | Par 71, 7,025 yards
Format: Stroke Play | Play 5, Count 4
Schedule of Play: Three 18-hole rounds
   Saturday, Sept. 21 - Round 1 | 8:30 am shotgun start
   Saturday, Sept. 21 - Round 2 | Upon conclusion of round 1
   Sunday, Sept. 22 - Round 3 | 8:00 am tee times / 1st and 10th
Participating Teams (15): Barry, Binghamton, Bucknell, Cal Baptist, Colgate, Columbia, Georgetown, George Washington, Howard, Lafayette, Loyola Maryland, Maryland, Navy, Pacific, William & Mary
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Following a successful trip to Michigan last week where it competed in the Folds of Honor Collegiate, the Navy men's golf team returns home this weekend to play host to The Goat. The two-day, 54-hole tournament is slated to begin on Saturday at the Naval Academy Golf Club (par-71 / 7,025 yards). The opening round begins with a shotgun start at 8:30 am with the second round to follow upon conclusion of round one. Sunday's final round tee times begin at 8:00 am from the 1st and 10th tees.

About the Tournament
• This is the first time Navy has hosted a fall tournament since 2016 and the first time it has been named The Goat.
• Navy previously hosted the Navy Fall Classic from 1992-2016 (1997, '98 did not play).

The Course
• The Naval Academy Golf Club is a private, university golf course owned by the Naval Academy.
• It is operated by the Naval Academy Golf Association (NAGA), which is affiliated with the Naval Academy Athletic Association (NAAA).
• The golf course serves as the home course for the Brigade of Midshipmen and all of the faculty and staff at the Naval Academy. Active duty and retired military personnel, as well as civilians also have access to the course.
• The Naval Academy golf course was realized in 1938, when the U.S. Navy purchased the surrounding land on Greenbury Point in order to expand their radio communications facility. The acquired land included the 18-hole golf course developed in 1928 by the Greenbury Point Yacht and Country Club, but had become abandoned during the Great Depression.
• Over the next two years, the Navy restored nine of the eighteen original holes and in 1940, the Naval Academy Golf Club opened for play. In 1942, William Flynn was contracted to design and develop a course composed around the existing nine holes.
• After two years, Flynn's redesigned Naval Academy course debuted in 1944. The finished course included eleven holes south of Greenbury Point Road and seven holes north of the main road, and incorporated the rolling terrain of inlets and surrounding tidal rivers of the Chesapeake Bay, along with views of the Bay Bridge in the distance.
• Further expansion of the radio facility eliminated two of the holes south of the road and two holes, the present numbers 13 and 14 were added. This completed the layout that exists today with the front nine south of the road and the back nine north of the road. Flynn's design emphasized his strategy of "preferred line of play" in which the golfer is encouraged to place his shot with thought for advantage on the subsequent shot.

Navy's Lineup
(Golfer / Yr / Hometown / 2024-25 avg. / Career avg.)
1 | Chip Deegan (Jr / Newport Beach, Calif. / 72.6 / 74.3)
2 | Jack Tarzy (Jr / Medford, N.J. / 74.8 / 74.4)
3 | Benjamin Valdez (Sr / Stevenson Ranch, Calif. / 74.8 / 76.3)
4 | Kaden Ausen (Fr / Puyallup, Wash. / 75.5 / 75.5)
5 | Ed Scott (Fr / Lemont, Ill. / 76.8 / 76.8)
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IND | Danny Auffant (So / Bellevue, Wash. / 75.6 / 77.6)
IND | Luke Lombardo (So / Severna Park, Md. / --- / 79.0)
IND | Owen Huntington (Sr / Camas, Wash. / --- / 76.9)
IND | Noah Nuez (Sr / Laveen, Ariz. / --- / 78.3)
IND | Derek Weaver (Jr / Hackettstown, N.J. / --- / 78.3)
IND | James Devore (Fr / Porter, Texas / --- / ---)

More on the Mids
• Navy not only opened its 2024-25 season Aug. 31-Sept. 1, it claimed the team title at the Alex Lagowitz Memorial played at the par-72 Seven Oaks Golf Club in Hamilton, N.Y.
• It was Navy's first team victory since setting the school's 54-hole record in relationship to par (834, -6) to claim victory at The Doc Gimmler in September of 2019.
• Additionally, it was Jimmy Stobs' first victory since becoming Navy's head coach in the fall of 2022. Yale (289-290=579), meanwhile, slid to third in the final standings, 6 strokes behind Navy and Seton Hall.
• Navy (289-284=573) shared the lead with Yale after the opening round, but however Seton Hall (291-282=573) had the low round of the tournament in Sunday's final round to pull alongside the Midshipmen to share the team title.
• Utilizing a play-six, count-four format, four of Navy's golfers finished inside the top 20. Among those were Jack Tarzy and Danny Auffant who both earning top-10 finishes. Tarzy tied for second with a 2-under par 142 to secure his second-consecutive top-five finish dating back to last year's Patriot League Championship. Auffant picked up his first-career top-10 finish with his seventh-place par-144.
• Navy's followed up with a 12th-place finish at the Folds of Honor Collegiate played at the par-71 American Dunes Golf Club in Grand Haven, Mich. The Mids shot a 49-over par 901 (299-304-298).
• The tournament featured 12 teams who played in the 2024 NCAA Div. I or II Golf Championships or NCAA Regionals and 7 teams who finished the 2023-24 season ranked or receiving votes in their respective national coaches' poll.
• Chip Deegan led the Mids with a 4-over par 217 (72-70-75) to finish in 16th.

What's Ahead
• Navy will return to the Links Oct. 4-5 when it travels to West Point, N.Y. for the annual Star Match.

### Go Navy ###

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