Oct. 2, 2011
LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - Coming off back-to-back team victories to start the season, the 11th-ranked UNLV men's golf team, according to Golfstat.com, will be back in action on Monday, Oct. 3, and Tuesday, Oct. 4, at the Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate, which will be played at Old Overton Country Club (par 70, 6,936 yards) in Vestavia Hills, Ala.
The 12-team field includes host Alabama, Arizona, Auburn, Clemson, Louisville, Middle Tennessee State, Mississippi State, Samford, SMU, Texas, UAB and UNLV. The 54-hole stroke-play tournament will consist of 36 holes (first and second rounds) on Monday and 18 holes (final round) on Tuesday.
UNLV will have the same lineup as it did in its first two tournaments: senior Derek Ernst, junior Kevin Penner, sophomore Blake Biddle, freshman Carl Jonson and sophomore Nicholas Maruri.
Alabama won the JPNI for four straight years from 2006-2009, before Auburn won the tournament last year by seven shots with a score of 11-under 829. Auburn's Niclas Carlsson won medalist honors by two shots last year at 8-under 202. UNLV finished fifth at last year's event at 26-over 866 and was led by Ernst's tie for 10th individually at 2-over 212.
Live scoring of the JPNI will be available courtesy of Golfstat.com through a link at UNLVRebels.com. This will be UNLV's third tournament of the fall. The Rebels won the team titles at both the Gene Miranda Falcon Invitational in Colorado Springs, Sept. 18-19, and the William H. Tucker Invitational in Albuquerque, N.M., on Saturday.
