Sept. 23, 2010
Contact: Greg Murphy
CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Cleveland State men's golf team will host the Telich Sun Life Financial/CSU Invitational from Oct. 3-5 at historic Canterbury G.C. in Beachwood, Ohio.
The 15 team field will play a practice round on Sunday (Oct. 3) beginning at 12:10 p.m., followed by 36 holes on Monday (Oct. 4) and the final 18 holes on Tuesday (Oct. 5) with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start both days.
The tournament field also includes Appalachian State, Austin Peay, Cincinnati, IPFW, Loyola, Malone, North Dakota State, Northern Illinois, Oakland, Ohio Wesleyan, Robert Morris, St. Francis, Wright State, Youngstown State.
"We are very excited to be hosting the Telich Sun Life Financial/CSU Invitational at a golf course with a rich history and tradition like Canterbury has," head coach Steve Weir said. "It is a very demanding, yet fair course with a lot of variation of holes that will reward good play. The golf course has a history of hosting elite competition, such as the PGA Championship, the U.S. Open and the Senior PGA Championship, and I expect it to be a great course for this event."
The course is a par 71 layout measures at 7,012 yards from the championship tees.
"Canterbury is extremely happy to have begun what we hope will be a long term relationship with Cleveland State University and the golf program," Canterbury Head Golf Professional Michael Kernicki said. "The club has a strong tradition of hosting memorable golf tournaments and I am looking forward to adding the Cleveland State Invitational to that prestigious list."
Since 1932, Canterbury has hosted 13 major tournaments and championships, most recently the 2009 Senior PGA Championship in which Canterbury became just the second U.S. club to host all five men's rotating major championships; the PGA Championship, the Senior PGA Championship, the U.S. Open, the Senior U.S. Open and the U.S. Amateur.
Canterbury also served as host of the 1996 U.S. Senior Open Championship, as well as four Senior T.P.C. tournaments and the 1989 Ameritech Senior Open.
The 1973 PGA Championship at Canterbury attracted the attention of the entire golfing world when Jack Nicklaus captured his 14th major championship, breaking the record for career major titles that was held by Bobby Jones.
In 1964, Canterbury was host to 150 of the top amateur golfers for the USGA Amateur Championship over six days. Fifteen years later, Mark O'Meara claimed the second USGA Amateur Championship hosted at Canterbury, defeating the likes of defending champion John Cook and Fred Couples.
The course has also hosted a pair of U.S. Opens, the first in 1940 when only two players broke par for the tournament. Six years later, Canterbury was chosen as the site for the first postwar tournament and Lloyd Mangrum captured the championship with three birdies over the final six holes despite playing in a thunderstorm over the final few holes.
The first tournament hosted at Canterbury was the 1932 Western Open, won by Walter Hagen. The Western Open came back to the club five years later and Ralph Guldahl won the event in a playoff.
