Pirates Head To Daufuskie Island For Rees Jones Invitational
September 19, 2014 | Men's Golf
GREENVILLE, N.C. - The East Carolina men's golf team will travel to Daufuskie Island, S.C. to compete in the Seventh Annual Rees Jones Invitational, co-hosted by Kennesaw State and UNC Wilmington, beginning Sunday, Sept. 21 and concluding Tuesday, Sept. 23. Tee times are scheduled from 8:30 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. off the No. 1 and 10 tees each day.
A total of 63 players and 11 schools will compete on Haig Point's Rees Jones Signature Course. In addition to ECU, Kennesaw State and UNCW those slated to attend are Bowling Green, Charleston Southern, Campbell, Elon, Presbyterian, Towson, USC Upstate and Winthrop. The Pirates are participating in the event for the third consecutive season after finishing in fifth-place last year and runner-up in 2012. ECU will send the five-man team of Wes Conover, Jacob Hicks, Al Dickens, Tim Conover and George Kilgore to compete. Nick Thompson will play as an individual.
Dickens led the Pirates with an 11th-place finish last season, shooting a 5-over par.
Haig Point's Rees Jones Signature Course is unique to the world of golf. The architect of the original course in 1986, Jones returned to Haig Point in 2007 for a restoration that has sharpened and maintained the course's young legacy as one of the best in the entire country. Haig Point's stunning course has appeared multiple times in Golf Digest's "America's 100 Greatest Courses" and "Best in State," and earned a position in Golf Magazine's "Top 100 in the World."
Jones, for whom the event is named, is a well-known golf course architect who is a vocal champion for the cause of environmentally-friendly golf courses. The son of legendary course architect Robert Trent Jones, the younger Jones has designed or redesigned more than 100 courses throughout his career.
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