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Bergstrom Seeks Eighth Top 10 Finish, Program Records at Valspar Collegiate

March 26, 2022

TAMPA, FLA., MARCH 27, 2022 – USF junior Albin Bergstrom (Falsterbo, Sweden) will look for his eighth top 10 finish on the year and program records for par or better rounds when the Bulls compete in the Valspar Collegiate Invitational Monday and Tuesday at the Floridian Golf Club in Palm City, Fla.
 
Bergstrom finished ninth last week at the Linger Longer Invitational for his seventh top 10 in eight starts on the year. He enters the Valspar ranked No. 7 nationally with an adjusted scoring average of 69.77, which leads all players in The American. Bergstrom brings 22 rounds of par or better on the season and 78 for his career into the tournament, two short of his own USF season record and one shy of the USF career record set by current PGA tour member Chase Koepka.
 
The Bulls finished seventh in a loaded 16-team field that included five top 25-ranked teams at the Linger Longer Invitational. Defending American Athletic Conference Champion Bergstrom fired rounds of 69, 72 and 70 for a 5-under par total of 211 to finish tied for ninth.
 
The Bulls will take on a strong field on the Par 71, 7,114-yard course at the Floridian this week. Florida State won the event last year with a 21-under par score of 831. USF finished fifth last year with a 7-under 845.
 
Sophomore Run Youprayong (Bangkok, Thailand), freshman Shubham Jaglan (New Delhi, India), sophomore Sam Nicholson (Atlantic Beach) and junior Ian Peng (Chang Hua, Taiwan) will join Begstrom in teeing it up for the Bulls. Freshman Chase Gullikson (Orlando) will play as an individual.
 
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 69.13 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. 7, which is seven better than Chase Koepka's USF record of a No. 11 final season national scorer rating. Bergstrom reached as high as the No. 4 ranking in early March.
• Bergstrom is the highest ranked player the American Athletic Conference and second in the state of Florida.
• Bergstrom has 22 par or better rounds on the year and needs two to break the USF career record for such rounds, currently 79, and tie his own USF season record of 24 set in 2018-19.
• 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) and low 54-hole total (201, -11, 2018-19) and second in par or better rounds (78).
 
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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