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UCF to Open Spring Campaign Sunday

Feb. 16, 2008

ORLANDO, Fla. (www.ucfathletics.com) - Coming off a third-place finish at the UNCG Bridgestone Collegiate Championship in Greensboro, N.C., last October, the UCF men's golf team has much to look forward to as it opens the spring season with the John Hayt Collegiate Invitational. The three-day event begins Sunday.

North Florida will host the 15-team event at the Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach.

The event features eight teams that are currently listed in the top-25 of the Golfstat national rankings. The Knights are 21st, while Charlotte (2) Alabama (3) and UCLA (4) all rank in the top-5. The remaining top-25 teams are: Florida (10), Tennessee (12), South Carolina (14) and Indiana (20).

The UNCG Bridgestone Collegiate Championship was the final tournament of the fall campaign for the Knights. Junior Greg Forest (Palm City, Fla./Martin County) led the squad to the third place finish with a total score of 212 (-4). He finished third in the individual standings.

In addition to Forest, seniors Chris Anderson (Lake Mary, Fla./Seminole) and David Johnson (Palm Bay, Fla./Melbourne), junior Preston Brown (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla./Nease) and sophomore Mike Stern (Miami, Fla./Killian) will be in action for UCF.

Brown, who hails from the Jacksonville area, will be playing close to home.

Sophomore Nuno Henriques (Funchal, Portugal) will compete as an individual at the event.

UCF competed at the John Hayt Collegiate Invitational in 2007 and finished tied for fourth. Forest carded a 220 (+4) to tie for fifth.

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