Golf

The golf team poses for a photo after winning the Carpetbagger Classic. PHOTO CREDIT: gorhody.com The University of Rhode Island Golf team picked up their second win of the season this past weekend at the Carpetbagger Classic, comfortably beating Robert Morris University by 13 strokes.  Head coach Gregg Burke was very satisfied with how the…

URI’s Golf team claimed first out of 13 schools in the Rolling Green Intercollegiate Tournament. Photo from gorhody.com. In what was only their second official competitive match of the season, the University of Rhode Island Golf team beat 12 schools to solidify its first-place victory at the Rolling Green Intercollegiate in Springfield, Pennsylvania this past…

Senior golfer Chris Francoeur has been preparing for the upcoming season despite challenges stemming from the pandemic. Photo from the Boston Herald.  Senior Chris Francoeur made headway over the summer for the upcoming fall golf season that ended up being nonexistent.  Following his departure from Kingston in the spring due to the coronavirus pandemic, Francoeur…

Photo courtesy of GoRhody. While the Georgetown Intercollegiate wasn’t quite the ribbon-on-top University of Rhode Island Golf was looking for to cap off their successful fall, it leaves some momentum as they head into the offseason.  Rhody finished in eighth out of a 12 team field that included national powerhouse University of Washington, who ran…

After a few close calls, the Rhode Island golf team is bringing home a trophy from Philadelphia after winning Villanova’s Wildcat Fall Invitational.  The Rams finished the tournament with a two-day and three-round total of seven-under 845 at the White Manor Country Club, a par 71, 6,717 yard course. The margin of victory was five…

The University of Rhode Island golf team continued their impressive start to the 2019 season by tying for second place at the Dartmouth Invitational in New Hampshire this past weekend.  Rhody and the Bucknell Bison were tied at the finish, with a two day and two round team total of six-under par 562. They both…

Photo courtesy of GoRhody. For the second time in many weeks, Rhode Island Golf can boast a tournament medalist after Freshman Bryson Richards earned co-medalist honors. Competing in the Doc Gimmler at Bethpage Red Golf Course in Farmingdale, New York, Richards was competing in just his second ever collegiate tournament.  “It was awesome,” said Richards….

Photo courtesey of GoRhody. Junior Chris Francoeur started his 2019 campaign for Rhody golf in the positive, as he took home individual medalist at the Alex Lagowitz Memorial Invitational. Building off a summer that included a Rhode Island Stroke Play Championship victory and stout play in Massachusetts Amateur events, Francoeur was already coming into the…

Senior Dawson Jones follows through after driving the ball off the tee.  |Photo courtesy of Julie Fletcher. In the Rhode Island Invitational early last week, Rhode Island Golf senior Dawson Jones won his first ever college golf tournament. “Honestly, it was awesome,” said Jones. “It was a long time coming. I played a lot of…