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No. 4-ranked Bergstrom Leads USF Men's Golf To Linger Longer Invitational

March 18, 2022

TOURNAMENT: Linger Longer Invitational
WHEN: Sunday, March 20 - Tuesday, March 22
COURSE: Great Waters Golf Course, Par 72, 7,436 yards
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EATONTON, GA., MARCH --, 2022 – The USF men's golf team will head north to Georgia Sunday through Tuesday for the Linger Longer Invitational at the Great Waters Golf Course in Lake Oconee, Ga.
 
The Bulls will take a 16-team field on the par 72, 7,436-yard course. Among the field are five top 25-ranked teams, including No. 4 North Carolina, No. 6 Vanderbilt, No. 10 Georgia, No. 19 Florida, No. 22 Clemson. The Bulls checked in at No. 31.
 
Defending American Athletic Conference Champion Albin Bergstrom (Falsterbo, Sweden) was named the AAC Player of the Week after a third-place finish at the Colleton River Collegiate, which earned him his sixth top 10 finish in seven outings on the year. He currently stands ranked No. 4 nationally with a 69.76 adjusted scoring average on the year and remains the highest-ranked player in the state of Florida and in The American.
 
The Bulls
USF finished sixth in the 15-team Colleton River Collegiate in their last outing as as Bergstrom posted a 13-under total of 202 to finish third. Bergstrom was one of three players to shoot in the 60s in each round and rolled in a tournament-high 20 birdies. He currently stands fourth among Europeans in the Arnold Palmer Cup Rankings. The top six will compete in the 25^th Arnold Palmer Cup, an annual Ryder-Cup style competition among collegians held this year at Rich Harvest Farms outside Chicago. 
 
Bergstrom will be joined in the line-up by sophomore Sam Nicholson (Atlantic Beach), Junior Luke Gifford (Boca Raton), sophomore Run Youprayong (Bangkok, Thailand) and freshman Shubham Jaglan (New Delhi, India).
 
NOTABLE
• Junior Albin Bergstrom currently has the Bulls' best-ever career scoring average (70.29), more than a stroke better than Koepka's previous mark of 71.53.
• Bergstrom's 68.95 season scoring average is on pace to break his own USF record of 70.00 set in 2018-19, as is his current national ranking of No. 4, which is seven better than Chase Koepka's USF record of a No. 11 final season national scorer rating.
• Bergstrom is the highest ranked player in the state of Florida and in the American Athletic Conference.
• Bergstrom owns USF career records for scoring average (70.45), tournament low round (63, 2019-20), tournament low round to par (-9, 2019-20), tournament low 36-hole total (133, -11, 2018-19), and is second in wins (3), low 54-hole total (201, -11, 2018-19) and third in par or better rounds (75).
 
About USF Men's Golf
USF men's golf program has captured 17 conference titles, including in 2021, and have seen players earn 19 All-America honors. The Bulls have won five of the last six American Athletic Conference Tournament championships in wire-to-wire fashion, winning four-consecutive from 2015-18. The Bulls have had four individual conference champions, including Albin Bergstrom in 2021, and gone on to earn eight straight NCAA Regionals appearances, including a 6^th place finish in NCAA Championship match-play in 2015. USF is led by Steve Bradley, who has been named American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year five times since taking over the program in 2014. The Bulls have posted 20 tournament wins under Bradley entering the 2021-22 season, by far the most under any coach in program history.
 
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