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Milligan Golf 2023-24 Visual Preview

2022-23 AT A GLANCE

Women: AAC Champions, 9th at NAIA Championship

  • Milligan made its eighth NAIA National Championship appearance in 13 seasons and posted the team's best-ever placement at the national championship (9th).
  • The Buffs won five tournaments, including the AAC Fall Championship Preview and the NAIA Direct Qualifier/AAC Spring Championship.
  • The Buffs spent the entire season ranked in the NAIA Top 25 Coaches' Poll.
Senior Gabby Hammond was one of three Milligan women's golfers to earn Academic All-America honors last spring, along with teammates Alayna Perryman and Kate Castle.

Top Average Scores in 2022-23 (min. 10 rounds)

  • Kate Castle: 76.00
  • Alayna Perryman: 76.81
  • Sarah Castle: 79.35
  • Mallory TeVrucht: 79.42
  • Gabby Hammond: 80.00
  • Hannah Goodwin: 82.10

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Men: 5th at AAC Spring Championship

  • Milligan finished the season with as the No. 46 team in the NAIA's Golfstat rankings.
  • The Buffs set team single-round (-11) and 36-hole (-16) scoring records at the Northeast Tennessee Spring Shootout.
Milligan won the East Tennessee Collegiate at the Johnson City Country Club

Top Average Scores in 2022-23 (min. 10 rounds)

  • Jonathan Liggett: 74.92
  • Ty Beasley: 76.25
  • Samuel Prater: 76.92
  • Gustaf Lundberg: 77.38
  • Brandon Hammond: 78.27
  • Jakob Modig: 80.84

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HEAD COACH TONY WALLINGFORD

Coach Tony Wallingford (Washington & Jefferson ’79) enters his 32st season as the head golf coach at Milligan.

Coach Wallingford is a 11-time AAC Golf Coach of the Year award-winner and has led the Buffs to 13 AAC championships.

2023-24 STORYLINES

  • Full Lineup - Milligan's women's golf team returns four members of its regular lineup last season.
  • In the Rankings - Milligan women's golf owns the ninth-longest active top-25 rankings streak in the NAIA (20-consecutive appearances).
  • New Faces - Milligan's men's lineup will see multiple newcomers after the graduation of several regular contributors.

KEY RETURNERS

Kate Castle

  • Junior Kate Castle earned NAIA Second Team All-American honors and posted a top-10 finish (T-7th) at the NAIA National Championship.
Castle was the AAC Player of the Year and set Milligan's single-round (-3) and 36-hole (-1) tournament records last fall.

Ty Beasley

  • Senior Ty Beasley is the Buffs' returning leader in average score (76.25).
Beasley posted a (-9) 135 to finish as the runner-up at the Northeast Tennessee Spring Shootout

2023 FALL SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE NOTES

  • The Buffs host the East Tennessee Collegiate at the Elizabethton Golf Club on Sept. 25-26.
  • Milligan's women open the season at the TPC Woodland Trails Women's Collegiate Invitational (Sept. 1-2), while the men begin the year at the Music City Fall Invitational (Sept. 11-12).
  • The AAC Fall Championship Preview for both men's and women's golf will be played at The Windermere Club in Blythewood, SC.
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Credits:

Dakota Hamilton Chase Farler