Cards Close the Fall Season at the Williams Cup

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The No. 28 University of Louisville men's golf team closes its fall season at the Williams Cup in Wilmington, N.C.

Eagle Point Golf Club, a spectacular 7,300-yard test for a number of the best collegiate players in the country, is home to the fifth annual Williams Cup presented by STITCH Golf beginning on Sunday, October 19.

North Carolina are again the host of the three-day, 54-hole tournament that features seven of the top-25 teams in the nation in the NCAA's Scoreboard/Clippd rankings.

The Cardinals have had a solid fall through the first four events of the fall. Louisville finished fourth last week at the Fighting Irish Classic in South Bend, Ind.

Utah debuted this week as the nation's top-ranked team after a pair of top-three performances in the Utes' first two starts.

Joining highly ranked Carolina and Utah in the field are No. 4 Auburn, No. 11 Texas, No. 13 Oklahoma, No. 23 Notre Dame, No. 24 Arizona, No. 26 Florida, Augusta, Kentucky, NC State, UNCW and Oregon State.

The Cardinals will bring Cooper Claycomb, Brady Smith, Warren Thomis, Easton Johnson and Andrew Tan to the tournament.

Claycomb posted his second consecutive top 10 finish after he was a fifth-place finisher at the Blessings Collegiate Classic la few weeks ago. At the Fighting Irish Classic, the junior posted a 1-under-par 209 over the two days, shooting rounds of 73-64- 72 to register his fourth finish in the top 20 this year.

Brady Smith tied for 12^th place with his score of 1-over-par 211, carding rounds of 68-67=76.

The Williams Cup honors Roy Williams and his wife, Wanda, for their many contributions to college athletics. The Hall of Famer was UNC men's basketball coach for 18 seasons, leading the Tar Heels to three NCAA titles and nearly 500 wins from 2003-21.

This year's Williams Cup includes three of the previous four NCAA team champions in Texas (2022), Florida (2023) and Auburn (2024). The Longhorns came into this season ranked No. 1 in the nation by Golf Channel, while the Tigers are currently the top team in the Bushnell Coaches' poll.

Numerous individual standouts will take on the challenging course at Eagle Point, including six players who competed in the 2025 Walker Cup at Cypress Point, 11 All-Americas from last season, 13 of the top 50 players in the World Amateur Golf Rankings (WAGR) and 12 of the top 50 in the Scoreboard/Clippd individual rankings.

Auburn's Jackson Koivun won National Player-of-the-Year honors in 2024, when he led the Tigers as a freshman to the national championship. He repeated as a first-team All-America last season, helped lead Team USA to victory in the Walker Cup and is ranked No. 1 in WAGR.

Texas' Daniel Bennett and Tommy Morrisson, Auburn's Josiah Gilbert, Notre Dame's Jacob Modleski and Oklahoma's Jase Summy all earned second-team All-America honors last year. Texas' Christiaan Mass and Florida's Luke Poulter were third team.

Maas is coming off an individual win at the World Amateur Team Championship two weeks ago in Singapore, where he and Bennett, his Longhorn teammate, also helped South Africa to the team title.

Utah's Gabriel Palacios is No. 1 in the country in this week's Scoreboard/Clippd rankings, the first of the season. Four other players in the field are ranked in the top 15, including the Utes' Davis Johnson (5^th), Summy (11th), Gilbert (14th) and Notre Dame's Calen Sanderson (15^th). Bertagnole is Carolina's highest-ranked individual at No. 49.

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Players Mentioned

Cooper Claycomb

Easton Johnson

Brady Smith

Andrew Tan

Warren Thomis

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