ORLANDO, Fla. — Coming off dramatic conclusions to
the NCAA Division I Men's and
Women's Golf Championships in late May and early
June, the four semifinal schools
will reconvene to compete in the inaugural East Lake
Cup collegiate match play
championship, airing live on Golf Channel Monday-
Tuesday, Nov. 2-3 at historic East
Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Ga., benefitting the East
Lake Foundation.
PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS: The men's
division will feature a rematch of the
National Championship semifinals. The four
participating schools include: reigning
National Champions Louisiana State University (LSU),
the University of Southern
California (USC), who lost to LSU in the championship
match; the University of
Illinois, who has won three of their last four fall
collegiate events and is currently the
top-ranked team in the country according to the GCAA
Coaches Rankings, and the
University of Georgia (UGA), two-time national
champions (1999 and 2005).
The women's division features three of the top-four
ranked teams in the current
Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings. 2015 NCAA Women's
National Champion Stanford
University headlines the women's field that includes
2015 championship runner-up
Baylor University; the University of Southern California
(USC), currently the top-
ranked team in the country in both the
Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings and Golfstat
Relative Ranking; and six-time national champions
Duke University.
FORMAT: Two match-play tournaments will
be contested simultaneously at
East Lake Golf Club for the men's and women's
divisions. Monday, Nov. 2 will feature
the semifinals and Tuesday, Nov. 3 will feature the
finals and consolation matches.
Within both the semifinals and finals, the competing
teams will pair five players in
singles matches.
Men's Division Semifinal Matches, Monday, Nov. 2:
LSU vs. Georgia
USC vs. Illinois
Women's Division Semifinal Matches, Monday, Nov. 2:
Stanford vs. Duke
Baylor vs. USC
GOLF CHANNEL NEWS AND TOURNAMENT
COVERAGE: Live tournament
coverage of the East Lake Cup will air on Golf Channel
from 2-5 p.m. ET each day
and will replay in primetime. In addition, Golf Central
will surround live tournament
coverage with pre- and post-event news coverage, as
well as daily updates on
Morning Drive and online at GolfChannel.com. News
and tournament coverage also
will be streamed live on Golf Live Extra.
The East Lake Cup will present the Tom Cousins Award
at the East Lake Cup
Celebration Monday night, Nov. 2 at the College
Football Hall of Fame. The Tom
Cousins Award is a new annual recognition of an
outstanding male and female golfer
who exemplify the values of the East Lake Foundation:
excels in academics, engaged
in his or her community and has overcome adversity.
This award is named for Tom
Cousins, founder of the East Lake Foundation, which
transformed a community in
despair into a thriving neighborhood, now a national
model for community
redevelopment through Purposes Built Communities.
The recipients will be featured
on Golf Channel's news and tournament coverage on
Tuesday, Nov. 3.
ABOUT THE East Lake Cup
Started in 2015 and hosted by the historic
East
Lake Golf Club Atlanta, this collegiate, three-day
match
play competition features the top-performing
teams
from the previous year's NCAA Men’s
Golf Championships. There is an individual award for
the low 18-hole scorer
in the seeding round.
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