Golf Channel · Mar 20, 2019
College notebook: More Tour invites, please; Gators ‘sign’ 7-year-old
During the college golf season, GolfChannel.com will check in weekly to update what’s happening in the world of college golf.
In the past few weeks, college golf has upped its intensity.
Two men’s tournaments, the Southern Highlands Collegiate and Valspar Collegiate, offered extra incentive to their competitors in the form of PGA Tour exemptions. The raised stakes made both events infinitely more compelling, as UNLV’s Jack Trent topped Texas freshman Cole Hammer in a thrilling three-hole playoff earlier this month in Las Vegas and Oklahoma State sophomore Matthew Wolff held off charges from Texas A&M’s Chandler Phillips and FSU’s John Park – and darkness – to prevail Monday in Palm City, Fla.