Season Recap: Men's Golf

• Coming off an historic 2022-23 season, the Lions were able to bring home more hardware in 2023-24 after seeing significant roster and coaching turnover.
• Despite that, the Lions saved their best for last, with a final round charge to take the 2024 CCS Men's Golf Championship.
• Prior to the beginning of the fall season, previous head coach JP Kircher was named Head Coach at Division I Colgate University.
• Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Jim Peeples led the team for most of the fall before the arrival of new head coach Dustin Meadows.
• In the team's first fall event, Cam Lucas tied for the top spot at the Greystone Invitational with rounds of 71 and 70.
• Meadows was hired as head coach prior to the team's final fall event, the NCAA DIII Preview.
• Senior Josh Hebrink was named Piedmont's Top Senior Male Athlete, voted on by the school's coaches and athletics staff.
• The Lions overcame an eight shot deficit in the final round to take the CCS Team Title, rallying past Huntingdon thanks to under par rounds from Eric Penland and Connor Lane.

• In the one day, 36-hole event, Cam Lucas delivered a personal best round not once, but twice on Sunday, opening with a 1-under 71 in the morning before backing it up with an even better second round, a 2-under 70 to finish at -3 for the event, tied with Huntingdon's Zachary Coker and Oglethorpe's Michael O'Sullivan.
• The junior from Vernon, Connecticut made six birdies in his opening round and five more in the final round playing for Piedmont's B Team. 

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• The day was highlighted by Adam Rogers' continued strong play, as the sophomore from Vero Beach, Florida put the finishing touches on a 4-under 68 in the second round, before firing a 1-over 73 in the final round to finish T-9th in the event.
• Rogers' 4-under 68 in the second round marked his career-best round at Piedmont.
• As a team, the Lions dropped back to finish in 11th place out of 19 teams competing in the event. Piedmont fired a 301 in the final round after a 286 in the second round.

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• Piedmont men's golf erased an eight shot deficit to track down rival Huntingdon and take home the Collegiate Conference of the South Championship Title on Wednesday afternoon in Dalton.
• The Lions blitzed the course with a blistering final round team score of 285 (-3), the best for the team over the entire 2023-24 season. Piedmont counted three of the four rounds at par-or-better with a 75 as the final counting score.
• Senior Eric Penland delivered his career-best round of 4-under 68 on Wednesday. Penland caught fire down the stretch, playing his final nine holes in 4-under without a single bogey after going out in even par 36. The hot closing stretch for Penland moved him into solo third place on the individual leaderboard.'
• Connor Lane also played his best golf when it mattered most, going out first on Wednesday and setting the pace with a birdie at the first. Then after making five consecutive pars to begin his back nine, Lane drove the green on the par-4 15th and rolled in the eagle putt to vault the Lions into a three-shot cushion late. He then made another birdie at the 17th and closed with par for a career-best round of 2-under 70.
• Entering the day just two shots off the individual lead, freshman Doug Gugel joined the birdie barrage at No. 1, chipping in from off the green to set his day off on the right foot. Although the freshman made four bogeys on the day, he followed the final three of those with a birdie to bounce back.
• After Gugel made a bogey at the par-4 17th, he found the fairway with his drive at the last. With the Lions leading by two shots and a tough approach over water coming, he stepped up, and found the green.
• Needing just to three putt to secure the title for the Lions, the freshman poured his birdie putt right in the center to put the exclamation mark on an outstanding day for the Lions.

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