Golf Enters BIG EAST Championship

The Blue Demons tee off on Sunday at the 2007 BIG EAST Championship in Louisville, Kentucky. The three-round tournament runs through Tuesday and begins each day at 7 a.m. (CST).

2007 BIG EAST Championship Central

CHICAGO – The DePaul golf team heads to Louisville, Kentucky this coming week for the 2007 BIG EAST Championship. The 54-hole tournament runs Sunday through Tuesday at the Cardinal Club.

The three-round tournament features 18 holes each day beginning at 7 a.m. (CST). The Cardinal Club boasts a par 72 course measuring 7,036 yards.

The Blue Demons enter the tournament as the No. 7 seed in a field of 12 squads. Louisville holds the top seed while Notre Dame sits at No. 2 and Marquette carries the No. 3 seed. USF is seeded fourth followed by St. John’s at No. 5 and Georgetown at No. 6. After DePaul, the competition is rounded out by Seton Hall at No. 8, Cincinnati at No. 9, Villanova at No. 10, Connecticut at No. 11 and Rutgers at No. 12. All seeds are reset following each round of competition.

Freshman Greg Doherty led DePaul in five tournaments during the 2006-07 season and carries a team-best stroke average of 74.1 shots per round. During the spring, he posted back-to-back second place finishes at the Beu/Mussatto Invitational and the Cuesta Title Intercollegiate.

Junior Matthew McMahon paced the Blue Demons in three tournaments this season while averaging 74.7 shots per round. In September, he won the individual title at DePaul’s John Dallio Memorial with a 54-hole score of 210.

Sophomore Cory Blenkush took second place last week at Loyola-Chicago’s Wiscon Corporation Invitational with a collegiate-best three-round score of 214. He holds a stroke average of 75.4 shots per round.

The Blue Demons finished eighth at the 2006 BIG EAST Championship, while McMahon took 13th in the individual standings. Louisville won the team crown and the individual title as Derek Fathauer carded a 202.

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