Carlisle Announces 2009 USC Aiken Fall Golf Schedule

AIKEN, S.C. – University of South Carolina Aiken golf coach Michael Carlisle announced the Pacers’ 2009 fall schedule on Thursday, July 2.

The 2009 Pacer golf fall slate features the 2009 Kiawah Island Invitational, which will be hosted by the Pacers on Monday, Sept. 7-Tuesday, Sept. 8. USC Aiken will also participate in three other fall tournaments, giving the Pacers four tournaments in total in preparation for the 2010 spring campaign.

The sixth annual, two-day Kiawah Island Invitational will be contested at the 6,875 yard, par 72 Cougar Point Golf Course. Designed by Gary Player, the course was rated at “4.5 stars” by Golf Digest. 

USC Aiken has won the event three times before, having won the first two editions of the event and last year’s team crown.

A week after opening with the Kiawah Island Invitational, USC Aiken will take part in the Raines Development Group Intercollegiate at the par 72 Country Club of South Carolina in Florence, S.C. The 54-hole, two-day event is hosted by Francis Marion. 

USC Aiken finished seventh at last year’s Raines Development Group Intercollegiate, which was formerly known as the Francis Marion Invitational. The Pacers are six-time champions in the event, having last won it in 2006. USC Aiken claimed the crown in the tournament five-straight times from 1992-96.

The Pacers will then participate in the Laker Invitational at the par 72 Crystal Lake Golf and Country Club on Monday, Sept. 21 and Tuesday, Sept. 22. The tournament will be 54 holes over two days. USC Aiken will be participating in the event for the first time.

USC Aiken will close out its 2009 fall schedule by playing in the three-day NCAA Division II Southeast Regional Preview at the par 72 Tanglewood Park Championship Course in Clemmons, N.C. The tournament will be hosted by Belmont Abbey.

The event is important in that it will give the Pacers a chance to see the course where the Division II Southeast Regional will be played in the spring of 2010. 

USC Aiken, which was ranked first for much of the 2008-09 golf season, claimed four regular season tournaments in the 2008-09 season.

The Pacers won two tournaments each during the fall and spring.

USC Aiken opened the 2008-09 year by taking team honors at the Kiawah Island Invitational in Kiawah Island, S.C. The Pacers also won the highly competitive NCAA Division II Aflac/Cougar Invitational hosted by Columbus State in Oct. of 2008.

USC Aiken acquired two NCAA Division I tournament wins in the spring of 2009. The Pacers opened their spring campaign by taking top honors as a team at both the Wexford Plantation Intercollegiate hosted by Francis Marion and the 12th Annual Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate at the Palmetto Golf Club in Aiken, S.C.

The Pacers concluded the 2008-09 season regular season with a final national ranking of fifth.