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ATHENS, Ga. – The Eastern Kentucky University men's golf team will play in its first ASUN Conference Championship starting Sunday in Athens, Georgia.
 
The three-day, 54-hole championship will be contested on the par 71, 7,258-yard University of Georgia Golf Course.
 
The first round of the 2022 ASUN Championship will begin at 8 a.m. ET on Sunday.  The Colonels will begin teeing off at 8:45 a.m. ET.  The 12-team field includes: Bellarmine, Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky, Florida Gulf Coast, Jacksonville, Jacksonville State, Kennesaw State, Liberty, Lipscomb, North Alabama, North Florida and Stetson.
 
Three ASUN teams are ranked among the top-55 in the nation by GolfStat.  Liberty is 36th, North Florida is ranked 39th, Florida Gulf Coast is No. 53.
 
Set on the rolling terrain of northeast Georgia, this Robert Trent Jones layout is widely regarded as one of the best university courses in the United States.  Renovated by Love Golf Design in 2006, the course is up to the standards of modern championship play.
 
Competing for Eastern Kentucky are graduate students Willis Gaer and Lake Leroux, junior Francesco Guarneri, redshirt freshman Reese Sexton and freshman Wil Griffin. 
 
Gaer leads the team with a 72.97 stroke average, one tournament win and three top-10 finishes.  Sexton is second on the team with a 74.64 stroke average and has one top-10 performance.  Leroux has a 74.65 average and also one top-10 finish.  Guarneri has a 76.0 average and Griffin is carrying a 77.05 average.
 
Under fourth-year head coach Mike Whitson the Colonels finished in the top 10 in six of their 12 events this season.  Eastern Kentucky tied for fourth at the Jackrabbit Invitational, tied for fifth at the Missouri Tiger Invitational and placed fifth at the EKU Intercollegiate.