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No. 6-Ranked Bergstrom Leads Bulls To Colleton River Collegiate

March 05, 2022

TOURNAMENT: Colleton River Collegiate
WHEN: Monday, March 7- Tuesday, March 8
COURSE: Colleton River Club (
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TAMPA, MARCH 5, 2022 – The No. 26-ranked USF men's golf team will play its third tournament of the spring Monday and Tuesday at the Colleton River Collegiate in Bluffton, S.C.
 
Defending American Athletic Conference Champion Albin Bergstrom (Falsterbo, Sweden) posted his fifth top 10 finish in six outings last week and jumped three spots to the No. 6-ranking nationally with a 70.02 adjusted scoring average on the year. He remains the highest-ranked player in the state of Florida and in The American.
 
The Bulls
USF finished sixth in the 16-time Coral Creek Collegiate last week as Bergstrom posted a 1-under total of 212 to finish T10. 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 freshman Shubham Jaglan (New Delhi, India), who moves up to the No. 2 slot this week. Junior Luke Gifford (Boca Raton), sophomore Sam Nicholson (Atlantic Beach) and sophomore Run Youprayong (Bangkok, Thailand) round out the line-up.
 
NOTABLE
• Junior Albin Bergstrom currently has the Bulls' best-ever career scoring average (70.37), more than a stroke better than Koepka's previous mark of 71.53.
• Bergstrom's 69.17 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. 6, which is two 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 (72).
 
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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