Tournament Details
Event: Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate, hosted by South Carolina Aiken
When: Monday-Tuesday, March 9-10
Where: Palmetto Golf Course, Aiken, S.C. | Par 70 | 6,617 yds
Format: Stroke Play | Play 5, Count 4
Schedule of Play: 36 holes on Monday, 18 holes on Tuesday
    Monday, March 9 - Round 1 | 8:30 am shotgun start
    Monday, March 9 - Round 2 | Following the conclusion of round 1
    Tuesday, March 10 - Round 3 | 9:00 am shotgun start
Participating Teams (15): #30 (DII) South Carolina-Aiken, #106 Boise State, #109 UAB, #111 Virginia Tech, #119 Campbell, #168 East Carolina, #170 Mercer, #182 Navy, #202 Samford, #211 Gardner-Webb, #215 Army, #240 Francis Marion, #247 Temple, #264 Presbyterian College, #269 Davidson,
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After opening its spring season in mid-February at the Watersound Invitational, the Navy men's golf team returns to competition on Monday when it travels to Aiken, S.C. to compete in the Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate. The two-day, 54-hole tournament will be played at the par 70 Palmetto Golf Club. Action is set to begin on Monday at 8:30 am with a shotgun start. A live scoring link will be available on NavySports.com(.)

The Course
• Palmetto Golf Club was founded in 1892 by Thomas Hitchcock, a prominent sportsman from Long Island, New York. 
• Recognizing the interest being taken in golf in America, Mr. Hitchcock laid out four holes in 1892 where holes #16, 17, and 18 and the practice range are now located.
• After the first four holes were constructed in 1892, Herbert Leeds, who also built Myopia Hunt Club in Boston, laid out the remainder of the initial nine holes.
• Palmetto was expanded in 1895 to 18 holes with the completion of the second nine holes that had been designed by Leeds and James Mackrell, Palmetto's first golf professional.
• Research indicates that the Palmetto Golf Club is the oldest, continually operated 18-hole golf course in its original location in the Southeast and believed to be the second oldest in the United States, with the Chicago Golf Club being the oldest.
• The golf course is a par 71 layout and plays at 6,695 yards from the championship tees. 
• The competitive course record of 59 was established by USC-Aiken All American golfer Dane Burkhart on Sunday, August 14, 2005 in the final round of the Palmetto Amateur. Burkhart's victory margin was 8 shots and he scored a record 20 under par for the four rounds of the tournament.

Navy's Lineup
(Golfer / Yr / Hometown / 2025-26 avg. / Career avg.)
1 | Jack Tarzy (Sr / Medford, N.J. / 72.59 / 73.83)
2 | Chip Deegan (Sr / Newport Beach, Calif. / 72.24 / 73.62)
3 | Hudson Mitchell (Fr / Pensacola, Fla. / 75.76 / 75.76)
4 | Kaden Ausen (So / Puyallup, Wash. / 76.00 / 75.05)
5 | Danny Auffant (Jr / Bellevue, Wash. / 77.50 / 77.19)

The Mids This Year
Watersound Invitational • Feb. 16-18 / Panther National, Panama City, Fla.
• Highlighted by 1-over par 281 in the opening round, the Mids completed the 54-hole Watersound Invitational with a 31-over par 871 to place 12th among a field that featured six teams ranked among the top 45 of the CLIPPD national team rankings and four among the top 11.
• For a second-straight year, Chip Deegan led the Mids at the Watersound Invitational where he shot par (210) en route to placing 29th. He opened with a team-low 3-under par 67, before shooting par in the second round and closing out with a 3-over par 73 in the final round.
• Team captain Jack Tarzy was just two strokes behind Deegan in 38th (+2 / 212). Tarzy also got off to a strong start in the tournament with a 2-under par 68, followed by par in the second round and a 4-over par 74 over the final 18 holes.

FAU Invitational • Oct. 27-28 / Panther National, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
• Navy shot a 26-over par 602 (298-304) to place 16th at the Florida Atlantic Invitational played at the par-72 Panther National Golf Club in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. 
• The tournament, Navy's final competition of the fall season, was shortened from 54 to 36 holes after teams were unable to get the first two rounds in on opening day.
• Chip Deegan and Sebastian Alonzo paced the Mids with a 4-over par 148 to tie for 49th. Deegan shot par, Navy's low round of the tournament, over the second 18 holes, while Alonzo finished the opening round with a 1-over par 73.

Nassau Intercollegiate • Oct. 20-21 / Nassau Country Club, Glen Cove, N.Y.
• Jack Tarzy shot a 4-under par 66 in the final round of the Nassau Intercollegiate to clinch co-individual medalist honors, while Navy tied host LIU and Iona for eighth.
• Tarzy, who shot a 2-over par 212 (73-73-66), shared individual medalist honors with Utah Valley's Paxton Maxwell (69-73-70).
• Tarzy, who entered the day 6 shots back from the leader, is believed to be the first Navy golfer to earn medalist honors in 3-consecutive tournaments (The Goat, Commander-In-Chief's Cup, Nassau Intercollegiate). 
• The three wins by Tarzy this season are the most by a Navy golfer in a season since Billy Hurley won 6 tournaments his senior year in 2003-04. 
• He is the first Navy golfer to win 3 tournaments over a career since Charlie Musto won three - 2 in 2017-18 and 1 in 2019-20.

Army - Star Match • Oct. 11-12 / Naval Academy Golf Club, Annapolis, Md.
• Navy won four of the first-five singles match en route to a 6-5 victory over the Black Knights in the annual Army-Navy Star Match played at the Naval Academy Golf Club in Annapolis.
• Luke Lombardo secured the final point on the 18th green, as the Mids claimed the program's first Star win against their arch rival since 2021. 
• Additionally, the win marked the school's 1,200th victory over Army.

Commander-In-Chief's Cup • Sept. 30 - Oct. 1 / Winged Foot Golf Club, Mamaroneck, N.Y.
• Jack Tarzy shot a 13-over par 223 to claim individual medalist honors for the second time in as many weeks, while the Mids dominated Army and Air Force to win the program's first outright Commander-In-Chief's Cup.
• Navy (449-459-480=1388, +128), who built a 20-stroke advantage over Army after just 18 holes, defeated the Black Knights  (1406, +146) by 18 strokes and Air Force (1411, +151) by 23 strokes. 
• In addition to Tarzy, four other players finished among the top 10 - Chip Deegan (2nd), Derek Weaver (T7th), Hudson Mitchell (T9), Ed Scott (T9).

The Goat • Sept. 20-21 / Naval Academy Golf Club, Annapolis, Md.
• Team captain Jack Tarzy shot a 3-under par 68 in the final round of The Goat to clinch individual medalist honors for the first time in his career, while Navy, as a team, placed second with an 11-over par 863 (287-291-285). 
• It marked the third-lowest 54-hole score in relation to par by the Mids in program history and the lowest since they shot a 2-under par 850 at the Phoenix Invitational Oct. 14-15, 2019.
• Tarzy's 8-under par 205 marked the third-lowest 54-hole score in relation to par in program history and the lowest since Nicholas Klock shot a 13-under par 200 at the Georgetown Intercollegiate Oct. 10-11, 2021.
• Tarzy, who went on to earn Patriot League Men's Golfer of the Week laurels, had finished as the runner-up on three occasions, including last year's The Goat when Loyola's Gustavo Rangel bested him by a single stroke.

Jackson T. Stephens Cup • Sept. 15-16 / Shoreacres, Lake Bluff, Ill.
• Chip Deegan represented the Naval Academy at the 2025 Jackson T. Stephens Cup where he placed 16th with a par 210 (69-72-69).
• Deegan, who was named the Patriot League Men's Golfer of the Week for his performance, was the top-finishing service academy player in the tournament and one of seven golfers who received a special invitation to play as an individual in the team-scored event held at Shoreacres in Lake Bluff, Ill. 
• The field included full teams from 10th-ranked LSU, 15th-ranked North Carolina, 22nd-ranked Arizona, along with Northwestern, Texas and SMU. Individuals represented Air Force, Army, Florida A&M, Howard, Livingstone and Navy.

Folds of Honor Collegiate • Sept. 8-10 / American Dunes Golf Club, Grand Haven, Mich.
• Navy opened the 2025 campaign with a 13th-place finish at the fourth-annual Folds of Honor Collegiate played at the par-71 American Dunes Golf Club in Grand Haven, Mich. The Mids shot a 44-over par 896 (300-300-296).
• Chip Deegan led the Mids with a 6-over par 219 (72-77-70) to finish 25th.
• The field included 19 teams that were represented at the 2025 NCAA Regionals, eight that advanced to the NCAA Championships, and 13 that ended the Spring ranked in the top 30 in the country.
• Defending Folds of Honor Collegiate champion Alabama made it two in a row, as the Crimson Tide captured the team title by 6 strokes over Notre Dame. Alabama's William Jennings secured individual medalist honors with a 4-under par 209 (71-67-71).

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