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NBC Sports
6 days ago
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Sargent: Excited to start PGA Tour journey
Gordon Sargent and David Ford catch up with Kira Dixon to share their excitement on making their PGA Tour member debuts at the RBC Canadian Open this week.
USA Today
11-05-2025
- Climate
- USA Today
Weather forcing schedule change at NCAA Amherst Regional, which will begin Sunday
Weather forcing schedule change at NCAA Amherst Regional, which will begin Sunday A week after two NCAA Women's Golf Regionals were impacted by weather, one of the six men's regionals is also having to change its schedule. Due to anticipated severe weather Monday, the NCAA Amherst Regional will begin Sunday afternoon at Poplar Grove. Teams will participate in a practice round Sunday morning before beginning the opening round in the afternoon to beat storms on Monday. Weather forecasts in Amherst call for heavy rains Monday and Tuesday with near 100 percent chance of showers and storms, and Wednesday looks like a soaker, too. NCAA rules permit regionals to begin play early in an effort to try to complete 54 holes. Last week, the NCAA Lubbock Regional and the NCAA Norman Regional began Sunday because of weather, with the Lubbock Regional able to complete play Tuesday evening while the Norman Regional wrapped up Wednesday morning. LSU is the top seed at the Amherst Regional, with fellow SEC teams OU and Vanderbilt rounding out the top three. The Commodores will be without Gordon Sargent this week, as the soon-to-be PGA Tour player is not in the lineup or listed as a substitute player.
NBC Sports
11-05-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Vanderbilt set for NCAA regionals without Gordon Sargent
If Vanderbilt is to advance to an 11th straight NCAA Championship, it will have to do so without Gordon Sargent. Sargent did not travel with the Commodores to Amherst, Virginia, where they will compete as the third seed in the NCAA Amherst Regional beginning Sunday afternoon at Poplar Grove Golf Club. It marks the third time this season that the struggling senior has been out of the lineup. John Broderick, who missed his first tournament of the season at last month's SEC Championship, will be inserted back into the starting five, joining Jackson Van Paris, Wells Williams, Ryan Downes and Chase Nevins, while Ben Loomis is the substitute. The first round will begin at 1:45 p.m. ET Sunday, a day earlier than originally scheduled, because of inclement weather. SEC foes LSU and Oklahoma are the top two teams in Vanderbilt's region, which also includes Pepperdine, Tennessee, Arizona, Stanford, Wake Forest, Arkansas, Florida Gulf Coast, Kent State, Princeton and Howard. 'Just like we've always done, we're just trying to put our best foot forward for this tournament,' Vanderbilt head coach Scott Limbaugh said on Saturday night via phone. 'We're going to put our feet in the ground and go compete. We've got a good golf course, and a lot of things we can't control relative to weather, and a really good field. 'We've gotta go do us and do it a little better than we did our last time out.' Limbaugh did not rule out Sargent returning for the NCAA Championship, should the Commodores qualify. Regardless of how he finishes his college career, Sargent, 21, is slated to join the PGA Tour this summer via the card he earned through the PGA Tour University's Accelerated program two falls ago. He will debut alongside Florida State's Luke Clanton at the RBC Canadian Open next month at TPC Toronto, and he is guaranteed full PGA Tour membership through the end of next season. Sargent opted to defer his status last summer so he could return to Vanderbilt for his senior season, but it's been a rough past year or so on the course for the former top-ranked amateur in the world. He was a first-team All-American and three-time Haskins Award finalist in each of his first three seasons while winning six times, including the 2022 NCAA Championship. He also was the school's career scoring leader through three seasons (69.56), but his 73.63 average this season ranks last on the nine-player roster. Sargent's last top-10 anywhere came at last July's Northeast Amateur. In eight college starts this season, he has just one top-30 finish and has placed outside the top 50 in all five starts this spring, including a T-75 at the SEC Championship. Only 15 of his 24 rounds have counted for the team this season after he had not counted a total of just nine times in his first three seasons combined. He's currently ranked No. 522 in the national collegiate rankings and has slipped to No. 19 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. Sargent told The Tennessean during Vanderbilt's home event, the Mason Rudolph Championship, in April that he believed his struggles came from 'changing some things' at the start of last summer to get ready for pro golf. 'Golf is a funny game,' Sargent added in that article. 'One bad shot can kind of derail you a little bit. It's one of those games that if you put your confidence in results, it's probably pretty much always going to let to down.' Vanderbilt has not finished better than third this season, though it hasn't placed better than eighth in tournaments where Sargent didn't play. Still, the Commodores remain No. 18 in the national rankings while Van Paris and Williams are ranked Nos. 23 and 34, respectively, and were each named to the All-SEC second team. Downes and Broderick are each ranked in the top 200 while Nevins slots in at No. 480 in the nation. 'It feels like a new season with a lot of new opportunities, and we need to appreciate those opportunities,' Limbaugh added in a school release. 'I know this group has a burning desire to compete and to compete together with purpose and conviction. This time of year takes talent, but it also takes character and having a group of guys having fun and holding up our Vandy standards. It's always important to remember that this is what everyone came here to do and who they want to do it with.'
USA Today
18-02-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Gordon Sargent did this for the first time in his Vanderbilt career at Watersound Invitational
Gordon Sargent did this for the first time in his Vanderbilt career at Watersound Invitational Show Caption Hide Caption Video: Youngstown State's college golf practice facility WATTS Here's an inside look at Youngstown State's Watson and Tressel Training Site. Gordon Sargent did something he never has Monday at the Watersound Invitational. The senior at Vanderbilt is ranked sixth in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, and after the NCAA Championship in May he will be a PGA Tour member thanks to earning his card via PGA Tour University Accelerated in the fall of 2023. However, his final year as a Commodore has been a struggle, and Monday was unfamiliar territory for him. Sargent was in the five spot in Vanderbilt's lineup in the tournament at Shark's Tooth Golf Course in Panama City Beach, Florida, an event the Commodores have won the past two years. During his Vandy career, Sargent has never been the No. 5 bag, which is usually saved for the last player to qualify for a spot. Where a player is at in the lineup doesn't really matter, though the top spots are usually where the best players or qualifiers are slotted. Any of the five scores can count each day in a lineup. For the 2022 NCAA individual champion, it's an unfamiliar spot during what's likely the most uncomfortable time of his career. A former No. 1 amateur, Sargent hasn't finished in the top 10 for the Commodores as a senior. He has more rounds of 75 or higher (4) than rounds in the 60s (3). His first start this spring was T-63 at the Southwestern Invitational, where he opened with rounds of 79 and 78. Sargent finished T-2 at the Watersound last year, but after his opening nine holes Monday, he was 7 over and beating only one golfer in the field. He signed for a 9-over 81 on Monday, the second-worst round of his college career As a freshman, he shot 83 at The Prestige at PGA West. He has been one of college golf's best for three years and he's talented enough to break out of whatever slump he's going through, but seeing him as the five bag is a strange sight for those who follow college golf closely.
Yahoo
17-02-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Gordon Sargent did this for the first time in his Vanderbilt career at Watersound Invitational
Gordon Sargent did something he never has Monday at the Watersound Invitational. The senior at Vanderbilt is ranked sixth in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, and after the NCAA Championship in May he will be a PGA Tour member thanks to earning his card via PGA Tour University Accelerated in the fall of 2023. However, his final year as a Commodore has been a struggle, and Monday was unfamiliar territory for him. Sargent was the fifth bag in Vanderbilt's lineup in the tournament at Shark's Tooth Golf Course in Panama City Beach, Florida, an event the Commodores have won the past two years. During his Vandy career, Sargent has never been the No. 5 bag, which is usually saved for the last player to qualify for a spot. Where a player is at in the lineup doesn't really matter, though the top spots are usually where the top players or qualifiers are slotted. Any of the five scores can count each day in a lineup. For the 2022 NCAA individual champion, it's an unfamiliar spot during what's likely the most uncomfortable time of his career. A former No. 1 amateur, Sargent hasn't finished in the top 10 for the Commodores as a senior. He has more rounds of 75 or higher (4) than rounds in the 60s (3). His first start this spring was T-63 at the Southwestern Invitational, where he opened with rounds of 79 and 78. Sargent finished T-2 at the Watersound last year, but after his opening nine holes Monday, he was 7 over and beating only one golfer in the field. He has been one of college golf's best for three years and he's talented enough to break out of whatever slump he's going through, but seeing him as the five bag is a strange sight for those who follow college golf closely. This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Gordon Sargent starts tournament at 5 bag for first time at Vanderbilt
