2025 Men's Golf Fall Schedule

KINGSTON, R.I. - Rhode Island head coach Gregg Burke announced the Fall schedule for the men's golf team, which includes six tournaments in the months of September and October.

After opening at the Sacred Heart Fall Classic (Sept. 8-9), the Rams will look to defend team titles at both the Ryan T. Lee Memorial Collegiate hosted by Fairfield (Sept. 22-23) and the UConn Invitational at GreatHorse (Sept. 28-30).

When the calendar shifts to October, Rhode Island will head to the Moraine Intercollegiate hosted by Miami of Ohio. A return to the Nassau Intercollegiate hosted by LIU (Oct. 20-21) and a trip to Iona'a Wykagyl Intercollegiate (Oct. 27-28) complete the Fall slate.

"We are incredibly excited to play the golf courses on our Fall schedule," Burke said. " This is as good a slate of venues that we've had in the first semester in a long time."

Last season, Rhode Island entered several players as individuals to the Sacred Heart Fall Classic. Josiah Tong led the Ram contingent by placing fourth in the field of 57 golfers. This time around, URI will compete as a team.

"We start at Great River. Sacred Heart coach Matt McGreevy is one of the truly good guys in college golf and he has been very good to us over the years," Burke said. "We wanted to be there when he moved his tournament to a new date."

After the season opener, Rhody will look to repeat at both the Ryan T. Lee Memorial Collegiate and the UConn Invitational at GreatHorse. Last season, Tyler Bruneau (third out of 90), Aidan O'Donovan (t-8th) and Luke Stennett (t-10th) gave the Rams three top-10 finishers at the Ryan T. Lee Memorial. A week later, the trio repeated the feat, with Bruneau tying for second out of 79, Stennett placing fifth and O'Donovan tying for ninth.

"Defending at the Ryant T. Lee will be a challenge, but we couldn't be happier playing on such a classic course as Wethersfied, which is over 100 years old," Burke said. "It is also the site of my very first tournament as a coach.

"After that we return to GreatHorse and, again, we will be in the very tough position of defending," Burke said. "GreatHorse is a top-10 golf facility in New England and Billy Downes, the head golf professional, is as good as it gets.  We love going there and always appreciate how UConn runs the tournament."

The team will travel outside of New England for its three October events.

"After a week off, we head to Ohio for the Moraine Intercollegiate, one of the best college golf tournaments in the country," Burke said. "The golf course itself is one of the best in Ohio and the field is demanding with five Big 10 schools, an SEC school, two Big East schools, three Atlantic 10 schools, among others.
"We then return to Long Island for Nassau Country Club, a classic golf course with tremendous greens.  We have not always played our best there, so we are looking forward to another shot at it.

The Wykagyl, hosted by Iona, is a new event for the Rams.

"We finish with one of the very best golf courses in all of New York in Wykagyl," Burke said. "Originally designed by a member, it got re-designs from both A. W. Tillinghast and Donald Ross before some more recent improvements by Ben Crenshaw.  We can't wait to get there.

"This year we added the Moraine and Wykagyl while also sending the entire team to Great River (we sent three individuals last year). N.C. State, where we were rained out a year ago after being in second place, is not running a tournament this year, thus the Moraine. Wykagyl replaces the Metropolitan, which we won.  And we are not playing in the match play tournament at Ledgemont, which we also won last year.  Clearly this is a tougher schedule than a year ago, but we want it that way. When the spring schedule comes out, you'll see as demanding a schedule as we've had in a very long time."

Graduate transfer Sean Magarian exhausted his eligibility last season and is the only player not back from a squad that won five team titles in 10 tournaments.

"We lose Sean Magarian who completed his MBA, but we add Bennett Masterson who sat out his year in residence," Burke said. "Sean was the star of the postseason a year ago, playing his very best in the A-10 Championship and the National Golf Invitational. 

"Bennett has enormous talent and can go extremely low. He needs consistency to be in the starting lineup.  We did not recruit anyone for the incoming class as we prepare for the restriction of a nine-man roster limit as part of the House Settlement.

"We return All-Northeast and All-Atlantic 10 player Luke Stennett, and ever-improving Josiah Tong and Aidan O'Donovan.  Josiah has had a great summer, and Aidan has shown flashes of the great play we hoped for.  Tyler Bruneau was spectacular last fall but a health challenge diminished his strength for a lot of the second semester. He is working his way back to full health, and I am confident he will be back to his old self and contending for the top slot.

"After that we have Tony Liu who I believe is as good as anyone on the team. He only needs more confidence to be just a great college golfer. On paper it looks as if he and Bennett are likely candidates for the fifth slot on the team, although both could clearly be higher than fifth. Seb Carlsson and Owen Rooney are both grinders who have played in the lineup in the past. The road ahead for them is challenging but they have every chance to make their mark."

The Fall schedule is indicative of the team's expectations for itself.

"The men on the team have earned the right to a more challenging schedule," Burke said. "Last year was wonderful for us in so many ways but we need more leadership throughout the lineup and need to work even harder if we want to make it to the postseason again."