Men's golf team will tee off at national tournament Tuesday

The Eastern Florida State College men's golf team will tee off in the NJCAA Division I National Tournament on Tuesday in Hobbs, New Mexico.

The men's golf team qualified by finishing second in the Southeast District Championship. It marks the 23rd straight season the team has made the national tournament.

"The program has been going every year so it is time for us to get coach a victory, I think the school is hungry for it and that is what we are all thinking about," golfer Kennedy Campbell said.

In the fall the Eastern Florida State College played at Rockwind Community Links in Hobbs, New Mexico and shot a 286 in the final round, giving them confidence heading back for the national tournament.

"It was fun, we played there in the Fall and we kind of scrapped our way through it and just played some golf," sophomore golfer Adam Vermut said. "It was interesting for me, it was a hard ending but we enjoyed it."

Vermut, who shot a 71 in the final round of that tournament in the Fall, is coming off a tie for first place in the Southeast District Championship, shooting a 219.

The course was inspired by a course in Scotland, the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers and is the host to invitationals, high school tournaments and a senior golf association tournament in August.

"The course, overall, is not much different than the ones we are used to playing other than the altitude, it is a straightforward course, you just have to go out and attack it," golfer Masen McKain said.

The first round of the national tournament will be Tuesday with the final round scheduled for Friday in New Mexico.