Tournament Details
Event: Watersound Invitational, hosted by Florida State and Alabama
When: Monday-Wednesday, Feb. 17-19
Where: Sharks Tooth Golf Course at Watersound Club, Panama City, Fla. | Par 72 | 7,246 yds
Format: Stroke Play | Play 5, Count 4
Schedule of Play: Three 18-hole rounds
    Monday, Feb. 17 - Round 1 | 9:00 - 11:00 am tee times 
    Tuesday, Feb. 18 - Round 2 | 9:00 - 11:00 am tee times  
    Wednesday, Feb. 19 - Round 3 | 7:30 - 9:30 am tee times  
Participating Teams (12): #24 Alabama, #60 Clemson, #33 Florida State, #14 Georgia Tech, #91 Kentucky, #85 Michigan State, #18 Mississippi State, #183 Navy, #42 NC State, #25 Notre Dame, #12 UCLA, #11 Vanderbilt
Follow The Action: Live results on Golfstat.com

The Navy men's golf team opens its spring season on Monday when it travels to Panama City, Fla. to compete in the Watersound Invitational. The three-day, 54-hole tournament will be played at the par 72 Sharks Tooth Golf Course at Watersound Club. Action is set to begin on Monday with tee times between 9-11:00 am. Navy will play alongside the hosts, Alabama and Florida State, in the opening round with the first tee time slated for 10:10 am (Hole #1). The Mids will play with Georgia Tech and Mississippi State in round two with the first tee time set for 10:10 am (Hole #10). Live scoring will be available on NavySports.com and Golfstat.com(.)

The Field
• A total of 6 teams ranked in the top 25 of the CLIPPD men's team rankings will be competing at the Watersound Invitational, including #11 Vanderbilt and #12 UCLA

The Course
• The 18-hole Shark's Tooth Golf Course is a Greg-Norman designed course tucked among the oaks and pines of a coastal sanctuary along the shores of the largest dune lake in Florida, Lake Powell
• The private course features the Shark's trademark wall-to-wall fairway cut, bright white bunkers the jut into the line of play, crushed coquina shell transition areas and slick-shouldered greens that fade into close-cropped chipping swales
• The course ranks among GolfDigest's top 50 in the country

Navy's Lineup
(Golfer / Yr / Hometown / 2024-25 avg. / Career avg.)
1 | Jack Tarzy (Jr / Medford, N.J. / 72.6 / 74.0)
2 | Chip Deegan (Jr / Newport Beach, Calif. / 72.6 / 74.2)
3 | Benjamin Valdez (Sr / Stevenson Ranch, Calif. / 75.0 / 76.2)
4 | Kaden Ausen  (Fr / Puyallup, Wash. / 74.3 / 74.3)
5 | James Devore (Fr / Porter, Texas / 79.0 / 79.0)
IND | Ed Scott  (Fr / Lemont, Ill. / 76.4 / 76.4)

Chip Deegan heads into the spring opener with the team's low average at 72.60 among the 4 events in which he competed, while Jack Tarzy owned a 72.62 average in 5 events during the fall. Tarzy was Navy's top finisher in 3 of the 4 tournaments during the fall (Alex Lagowitz Memorial, The Goat, Commander-In-Chief's Cup), while Deegan paced the Mids at the Folds of Honor Collegiate.


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