The Hall Plays "The Goat" Starting Saturday

ANNAPOLIS, MD. - The Seton Hall men's golf team will return to tournament action for three rounds of golf at "The Goat," hosted by Navy, Sept. 20-21, at the Naval Academy Golf Club.

Tournament Details:
THE GOAT
Host: U.S. Naval Academy
Location: Annapolis, Md.
Course: Naval Academy Golf Club
Course Vitals: Par-71, 7,025 yards
Dates: September 20-21, 2025

THE COURSE:
The Naval Academy Golf Club is a private, university golf course owned by the Naval Academy. It is operated by the Naval Academy Golf Association (NAGA), which is affiliated with the Naval Academy Athletic Association (NAAA). The golf course serves as the home course for the Brigade of Midshipmen and all of the faculty and staff at the Naval Academy. Active duty and retired military personnel, as well as civilians also have access to the course.

The Naval Academy golf course was realized in 1938, when the U.S. Navy purchased the surrounding land on Greenbury Point in order to expand their radio communications facility. The acquired land included the 18-hole golf course developed in 1928 by the Greenbury Point Yacht and Country Club, but had become abandoned during the Great Depression. Over the next two years, the Navy restored nine of the eighteen original holes and in 1940, the Naval Academy Golf Club opened for play. In 1942, William Flynn was contracted to design and develop a course composed around the existing nine holes. After two years, Flynn's redesigned Naval Academy course debuted in 1944. The finished course included eleven holes south of Greenbury Point Road and seven holes north of the main road, and incorporated the rolling terrain of inlets and surrounding tidal rivers of the Chesapeake Bay, along with views of the Bay Bridge in the distance.

Further expansion of the radio facility eliminated two of the holes south of the road and two holes, the present numbers 13 and 14 were added. This completed the layout that exists today with the front nine south of the road and the back nine north of the road. Flynn's design emphasized his strategy of "preferred line of play" in which the golfer is encouraged to place his shot with thought for advantage on the subsequent shot.

THE FIELD:
In addition to Seton Hall and host Navy, the field includes 14 other schools: Binghamton, Bucknell, Colgate, Columbia, George Mason, George Washington, Harvard, Howard, Lafayette, Le Moyne, Loyola Maryland and William & Mary. Fellow BIG EAST opponents, Connecticut and Georgetown, are also in the field.

THE FORMAT:
Teams will play five golfers and count the four lowest scores per round.

THE LINEUP:
Here's the season-opening lineup for the Pirates…

Will Hennessee, Sophomore
George Fricker, Graduate
David Lally, Senior
Blake Goodnight, Freshman
Jack Bosworth, Senior

LAST TIME OUT:
Sophomore Will Hennessee (Tulsa, Okla.) finished fourth at 1-under-par to lift the Pirates to a second-place finish at the Alex Lagowitz Memorial on Sept. 7.

Hennessee used a remarkable second round to buoy his second career sub-par tournament. In the second round, which was started on Saturday and finished on Sunday due to darkness, he used seven birdies to fuel a 6-under-par, 66. On Sunday, he shot a 1-over-par, 73. For the tournament, Hennessee was 1-under-par with a 76-66-73-215. He placed fourth overall among 92 individual golfers for his highest career finish and his second career top-10.

As a team, The Hall rocketed up the leader board after a second-round 7-under-par, 281. On Sunday, the Pirates shot a 2-over-par, 290. For the tournament, they placed second in the field of 13 teams with a 1-under-par, 292-281-289-863. Lehigh, which had two sub-par rounds, finished at 8-under-par to win the team title. BIG EAST foe Villanova placed third, nine strokes behind The Hall.

THE SCHEDULE:
The teams will play 36 continuous holes on Saturday, and one final round on Sunday. On Saturday, there will be a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. Sunday's final round will have a shotgun at 8:00 a.m.

THE RESULTS:
Live scoring will be available throughout the tournament via Scoreboard.Clippd.com. Complete results of each day's events will also be available following competition at SHUpirates.com.