Tournament Details
Event: Mountaineer Invitational, hosted by West Virginia
When: Monday-Tuesday, April 14-15
Where: Pete Dye Golf Club, Bridgeport, W.Va. | Par 72 | 7,308 yards
Format: Stroke Play | Play 5, Count 4
Schedule of Play: Three 18-hole rounds
    Monday, April 14 - Round 1 | Shotgun start starting at 8:15 am
    Monday, April 14 - Round 2 | Follows the completion of Rd 1 
    Tuesday, April 15 - Round 3 | Tee times off holes #1 and #10 starting at 8:00 am
Participating Teams (18): #4 Oklahoma State, #28 Texas Tech, #52 TCU, #74 Kentucky, #95 West Virginia, #138 Oral Roberts, #143 James Madison, #162 George Mason, #165 Marshall, #178 Western Kentucky, #181 Drexel, #183 William & Mary#188 Virginia Tech, #192 Navy, #201 Army, #217 Villanova, #262 Robert Morris, #277 Tennessee Tech
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The Navy men's golf team will play its final tournament of the regular season when it travels to Bridgeport, W.Va. to compete in the 18-team Mountaineer Invitational. Hosted by West Virginia, the two-day, 54-hole tournament is slated to begin on Monday morning at Pete Dye Golf Club (par 72 / 7,308 yds). The tournament gets underway with a shotgun start at 8:15 am with 36 holes schedule for Monday and the final 18 on Tuesday. 

The Field
• Navy is among an 18-team field that features 5 teams ranked among the top 100 - #4 Oklahoma State, #28 Texas Tech, #52 TCU, #74 Kentucky and #95 West Virginia
• There are 9 players who are currently ranked among the top 200 who are expected to compete, including 4 of the top 100 - #10 Ethan Fang, Oklahoma State; #15 Preston Stout, Oklahoma State; #52 Eric Lee, Oklahoma State; #60 Connor Graham, Texas Tech

Tournament History
• This will be the 10th consecutive Mountaineer Invitational
• Penn State won the inaugural event in 2015 , followed by 2016 Arkansas, 2017 Bowling Green, 2018 West Virignia, 2019 West Virginia, October 2021 NC State, April 2021 West Virginia, 2023 Oklahoma State, 2024 West Virginia
• West Virginia is the only team to win the tournament multiple times (2018, '19, spring '21, 2024)

Navy's Lineup
(Golfer / Yr / Hometown / 2024-25 avg. / Career avg.)
1 | Chip Deegan (Jr / Newport Beach, Calif. / 72.77 / 73.90)
2 | Jack Tarzy (Jr / Medford, N.J. / 73.12 / 73.90)
3 | Benjamin Valdez (Sr / Stevenson Ranch, Calif. / 75.91 / 76.28)
4 | Ed Scott (Fr / Lemont, Ill. / 77.11 / 77.11)
5 | Danny Auffant (So / Bellevue, Wash. / 76.36 / 77.32)

Going into the Mountaineer Invitational, Chip Deegan owns team's low average at 72.77 among the 8 tournaments in which he has competed, including a sensational appearance at the spring-opening Watersound Invitational where he tied for 14th with a 3-under par 213 (72-70-71). He shot a 6-under par 207 to place third at the Golden Horseshoe Intercollegiate. Meanwhile, Jack Tarzy, who garnered Patriot League Golfer of the Week honors a week ago, owns a 73.12 average in 9 tournaments this year. He earned a top-25 finish at last week's Augusta Hawskins Award Invitational that featured seven of the top-40 teams in the country. 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. Deegan has been the Mids' top finisher in three of the four tournaments this spring.

### Go Navy ###