[tennisfan]

I think this is just SO Amazing and Wonderful!
Way to go Men!!!
I look forward to following their progress!

"Following their first-ever Big South Championship three weeks ago, No. 27 Liberty will be traveling to Tucson, Ariz., to participate in the Arizona Regional of the 2011 NCAA Men's Golf Championship, May 19-21.

The Flames will be the No. 5 seed at the 14-team Arizona Regional, which will be contested at the Omni Tucson National Resort. The par-72, 7,094-yard trek has hosted 30 PGA Tour events and was the long-time home of the Tucson Open and the Chrysler Classic of Tucson."

This is a great article... Check it out!!

http://www.libertyflames.com/index.cfm? ... ewsID=7184

[ATrain]

Looking forward to seeing what they can do out west. GO LIBERTY GOLF!!!

[Sly Fox]

One of my old LU roommates works for a TV station in Tuscon. I'm contacting him now.

[bigsmooth]

we have a great shot at going to the NCAA Championships with a top five finish! GO FLAMES!

[LUaddict]

Congrats to the Golf Team. Lets make a statement at this tournament and show them what Liberty Golf is all about. Go LU!

[ATrain]

http://www2.newsadvance.com/sports/2011 ... r-1046493/

Article by our own scribe on the Golf team

When Preston Dembowiak was a freshman during the 2007-08 season, he got a pretty good idea of just how far Liberty had to climb to become a player in the Big South Conference golf scene. While the Flames were sputtering to a sixth-place finish at the conference championships in the spring with a 62-over par three-round total, Coastal Carolina was making an impact on the national stage...The Flames, which won the Big South tournament last month to end Coastal’s seven-year run, have come a long way since Dembowiak was a freshman. Last month, on the same course in which the Flames — who open NCAA regional play Thursday in Tucson, Ariz. — shot a three-round score of 926 in ’07-08, Liberty carded an 8-under par 856, an improvement of 70 strokes.

[bigsmooth]

Here is the link for live stats throughout the regional.

http://www.golfstatresults.com/public/i ... nt_id=2607


GO FLAMES!!!!!

[bigsmooth]

early in the first round through five holes LU is at even par which is good for a tie for 6th place with threee other teams. Max Mc Kay and Andrew Colvin are both at -1 which is a tie for 4th place.

[PAmedic]

CCU's board said they got an at-large bid to the VaTech regional. Can't figure that one out other than program hx/reputation. They certainly were below form this year (for them)

[bigsmooth]

coastal ranked 61st and 81teams get in the regionals. im sure their reputation helped them though.

[BJWilliams]

Liberty is tied for second right now three strokes off the lead.

[jcmanson]

So how does this golf tourney work? I read something about the top 5 team finishers in Arizona this weekend move on? Is that true? What about individual players? How many more "rounds" are there (i.e. Regionals, Nationals, etc.)?

[Chris Lang]

Top 5 teams move on, so there will be 30 teams total in the national meet at Oklahoma State.

[jcmanson]

Top 5 teams move on, so there will be 30 teams total in the national meet at Oklahoma State.

Great, thanks. What about individual qualifiers?

[BJWilliams]

From what Ive read, its the top 5 teams in each region plus the top individual from a non-qualifying team so you will have 6 other individuals qualify if Im remembering that correctly

[Chris Lang]

That sounds about right, BJ, though I'm not completely sure. Flames are tied for second with Washington right now at -4, two strokes behind San Diego State. Dembowiak shot a 67, and Marinell posted an impressive 72 after double-bogeying two of the first three holes. Karlsson still has one hole left.

[jcmanson]

Good stuff. The guys have been impressive. Let's hope they continue that through the weekend.

[jcmanson]

Karlsson finished -1.

I haven't seen updates on all the others.

[jcmanson]

We are in the clubhouse at -4, good enough for 3rd place.

Dembowiak is T-3 at -4.

Karlsson T-12 at -1.

[BJWilliams]

Solid day for the guys...if we can get one more guy in red numbers tomorrow thatll be big going into Saturday

[bigsmooth]

nice start by the guys after the tough start. i really like what the guys are doing.

[BJWilliams]

Liberty hit the skids bigtime today as they are in 9th place at +4 coming to the end of round 2.

[bigsmooth]

yeah, the boys are gonna have to do some major work to get back in the hunt but anything is possible.they can certinaly make up seven shots in a team competition. Other than Loyola-Maryland, LU had the worst score of the day. Chase Marinell was best for LU with an even par 71, but Preston Dembowiak shot a 6 over 77. Lets hope for a rebound tomorrow1

[bigsmooth]

The guys struggled and finished +8 which landed the Flames in 10th place out of 14 teams. Individually the guys ended up as follows:

Chase Marinell- +1
Andrew Colvin- +1
Preston Dembowiak- +3
Robert Karlsson- +8
Max Mc Kay- +10

The guys had a great season with top three finishes in 10 of 12 tournaments, and the teams first Big South Championship. Congrats to Coach Thomas and the guys.

[Sly Fox]

Congratulations indeed! This program took a mammoth step forward this year.