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CHATTANOOGA—The Chattanooga Mocs men’s golf team has reached the top 60 in the country in the latest Golfstat rankings. A big opportunity is ahead for the lads to improve on that position beginning Sunday at the Linger Longer Invitational.
 
The Mocs are one of nine teams among the top 60 nationally which generally guarantees a spot in the NCAA Championships beginning with regional play. With such a deep field, a strong finish this week further cements that potential run.
 
The 3-day, 54-hole event is played on Reynolds Lake Oconee’s Great Waters Course. It’s the 11th entry in the annual event for the Mocs. The best finish is second in 2011 that included top 15 wins over Georgia and Stanford.
 
This week’s crew looking for a sixth top 5 at the Linger Longer is a familiar fivesome. John Houk topped qualifying followed by Paul Conroy, Garrett Engle, Samuel Espinosa and Braedon Wear. This group has started four of the squad’s eight events including the last three.
 
Scoring and pairings are linked above when available.
 
Linger Longer Invitational
March 19-21 (Sun-Tue) | Eatonton, Ga.
 
Keep an eye on…

• Chattanooga is one of nine top 60 programs in the field per the latest Golfstat rankings. There are four top 25 programs including (1) Vanderbilt, (11) Georgia Tech, (16) Virginia & (20) Alabama.
• 27 under for the campaign. No Mocs squad has completed a season under par. Closest was 9 over in 2007-08.
• 23 rounds in the 60s by Mocs this season led by Conroy & Espinosa with six apiece just ahead of Houk’s five. Six Mocs have at least one with five carding 60s multiple times.

 
Lineup
Samuel Espinosa: 71.10
Paul Conroy: 71.10
John Houk: 71.62
Garrett Engle: 72.20
Braedon Wear: 73.22
 
Course
Great Waters | Par 72 | 7,436 yards
 
Field

(59) Chattanooga, (20) Alabama, (44) Arkansas, Augusta, (79) Charlotte, (51) Clemson, (34) Georgia, (11) Georgia Tech, Kennesaw State, Mercer, (37) UNC Greensboro, South Alabama, (89) South Florida, (1) Vanderbilt, (16) Virginia & Wofford
 
History
*2006
Team: 3rd, 297-289-290=876, +12
Ind: T3, Bryce Ledford, 72-69-72=213, -3
*2007
Team: 4th, 288-282-293=863, -1
Ind: T8, Jonathan Hodge, 69-68-75=212, -4
*2008
Team: 3rd, 278-298-292=868, +4
Ind: T6, J.T. Clendenin, 66-72-77=215, -1
2011
Team: 2nd, 284-289-291=864, E
Ind: T4, Stephan Jaeger, 69-69-73=211, -5
2012
Team: 3rd, 289-288-293=870, +6
Ind: 3, Stephan Jaeger, 68-74-68=210, -6
2014
Team: 8th, 283-289-306=878, +14
Ind: T13, Liam Johnston, 68-75-72=215, -1
2015
Team: 14th, 296-291-294=881, +17
Ind: T30, Liam Johnston, 74-73-79=217, +1
2018
Team: 9th, 283-293-300=876, +12
Ind: T17, Luke Long, 73-69-73=215, -1
2021
Team: 7th, 297-284-295=876, +12
Ind: T16, C. Nolan, 75-70-70=215, -1
2022
Team: 13th, 301-305-299=905. +41
Ind: T34, B. Wear, 71-75-74=220, +4
*Not played at Great Waters Course
 
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