Tournament Details
Event: The Hayt, hosted by North Florida
When: Saturday-Monday, March 8-10
Where: Sawgrass Country Club, Ponte Vedra, Fla. | Par 72 | 6,966 yds
Format: Stroke Play | Play 5, Count 4
Schedule of Play: Three 18-hole rounds
   Saturday, March 8 – Round 1 | Tee times off holes #1 and #10 starting at 7:30 am
   Sunday, March 9 – Round 2 | Tee times off holes #1 and #10 starting at 8:00 am Â
   Monday, March 10 – Round 3 | Tee times off holes #1 and #10 starting at 8:30 am
Participating Teams (15): #4 Texas, #8 North Carolina, #9 Virginia, #14 South Carolina, #18 Alabama, #26 Northwestern, #28 Duke, #34 South Florida, #37 Charlotte, #42 Louisville, #89 Coastal Carolina, #90 North Florida,#109 Liberty, #134 UTSA, #177 Navy,
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After opening its spring season two weeks ago in Panama City, Fla., the Navy men’s golf team will return to the state of Florida to compete in one of the most prestigious collegiate golf tournaments in the country, The Hayt. The three-day, 54-hole tournament is slated to begin on Saturday at Sawgrass Country Club (par-72, 6966) in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. The tournament gets underway with at 7:30 am Saturday with tee times off holes #1 and #10. Live scoring links will be available on NavySports.com(.)
The Field
Latest Rankings: Team | Individual
• Navy is among a 15-team field that features 12 teams ranked among the top 100, including 3 in the top 10 – #4 Texas, #8 North Carolina, #9 Virginia
• There are 16 players who are currently ranked among the top 100 who are expected to compete, including 5 of the top 10 – #1 David Ford, North Carolina; #3 Tommy Morrison, Texas; #5 Daniel Bennett, Texas; #8 Ben James, Virginia; #9 Sebastian Moss, Louisville
The Course
• The Sawgrass Oceanside Course (East-West) gained its reputation as the home of the PGA Tour’s Tournament Players Championship (TPC) from 1977-81 when the course, along with its treacherous winds tested some of the greatest players of all times. Past winners at Sawgrass include Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino and Ray Floyd.
• A five-time host of The Players Championship, Sawgrass Country Club is one of the premier private country clubs of Northeast Florida. SCC partnered with golf course architect Robert Walker in 2013 as he redesigned the original East-West Courses.Â
Navy’s Lineup
(Golfer / Yr / Hometown / 2024-25 avg. / Career avg.)
1 | Chip Deegan (Jr / Newport Beach, Calif. / 72.23 / 73.98)
2 | Jack Tarzy (Jr / Medford, N.J. / 72.94 / 73.97)
3 | Benjamin Valdez (Sr / Stevenson Ranch, Calif. / 75.23 / 76.21)
4 | Ed Scott  (Fr / Lemont, Ill. / 76.38 / 76.38)
5 | James Devore (Fr / Porter, Texas / 80.0 / 80.0)
Chip Deegan heads into the tournament with the team’s low average at 72.23 among the 5 events in which he 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). Meanwhile, Jack Tarzy owns a 72.94 average in 6 tournaments this year. 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.
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