ST. AUGUSTINE – The Flagler College men's golf team will look to win their fourth Peach Belt Conference Championship, which starts Friday at the Forest Hills Golf Club at Augusta, Georgia. The 54-hole tournament will run through Sunday. The first round begins at 8:30 a.m.

The Saints won the conference title in 2011, 2015, and 2019. Four times Flagler individuals have earned medalist honors. Joel Dahlenburg won in 2011 and 2012 while Jordan Ebanks took the title in 2015. Juan Iturra topped the field in 2019 at the Slammer & Squire.

Flagler is sixth in the conference in scoring average at 293.5 strokes per round. The Saints finished in second place at the McDonough Cup, with a 5-over par 869. Flagler finished in fourth place at the season opening Jay Jennison Cup with a 23-over 887. The team has had four top-five finishes this year.

Franco Piovano leads the team with a 73.31 strokes per round average. He has three top 10 finishes, including one top five which was a third-place finish at the McDonough Cup as he shot a 1-under 215.

Nic Whittaker is averaging 73.47 strokes per round and has one top 10 finish this year. He tied for 10^th place at the Hurricane Invitational with a 2-under 214.

Newcomer Joel Petersson is third on the team with a 73.92 strokes per round average. He finished in a tie for seventh place with an even par 216 at the Hargett Memorial Invitational.

Felix Villamil leads the team with two top five finishes, but he is fourth on the team in scoring average at 73.93. He shot a 3-under 213 in the next to last tournament of the regular season, the Hargett Memorial Invitational, and finished in a tie for fifth place.

Nic Eberhard, a freshman, is averaging 74.74 strokes per round this season. He finished in a tie for ninth place with an even par 216 at the McDonough Cup.    

The PBCs have five teams ranked in the top 25 by Golfstat. The teams will not only be competing for a trophy, but for the league's automatic berth to the South/Southeast Regional, which will be held May 11-13 at the Grande Oaks Golf Club at Davie, Florida.

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