10/4/2015 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
Oct. 4, 2015
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LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - The UNLV men's golf team will be back in action on Monday, Oct. 5, and Tuesday, Oct. 6, at the Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate, which will be played at Old Overton Country Club (par 70, 7,209 yards) in Vestavia Hills, Ala.
The 12-team field includes host Alabama, Arkansas, No. 2 Auburn, Baylor, Charlotte, Florida, No. 5 Florida State, Kennesaw State, Mississippi State, Texas-San Antonio, 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.
Competing for UNLV will be sophomore John Oda, senior AJ McInerney, sophomores Shintaro Ban and Ben Davis, and freshman Harry Hall.
Alabama has won the JPNI in seven of the last nine years, including last season by 13 shots with a score of 10-under 830. Mississippi State's Ben Wood earned medalist honors by four shots at 12-under 198.
UNLV finished third at last year's JPNI at 9-over. Of the players competing this year for UNLV, Oda had the best finish at last year's event, tying for 15th at 3-over.
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 are coming off a third-place showing at the William H. Tucker Intercollegiate in Albuquerque, N.M., last weekend. McInerney led the Rebels at that event, finishing second, just two shots behind the medalist at 8-under. Oda tied for 11th at 2-under.
