TicketsCINCINNATI – The Cincinnati men’s golf team hits the road to Lexington, Ky., for the Cullan Brown Collegiate starting Monday at Lexington Country Club. The 15-team field will play 36 holes Monday before an 18-hole round Tuesday. Play starts with a 9 a.m. shotgun start both days.
Cincinnati’s lineup will consist of Ryan Ford, Leo Wessel, Connor McNeely, Rylan Wotherspoon and Davis Gochenouer, with Connor Cassano participating as an individual.
The tournament is the fourth of five fall events for the Bearcats, who opened the fall slate with a third-place finish at the Folds of Honor Collegiate Sept. 8-10 before turning in an 11-stroke victory at the 18-team Bearcat Invitational Sept. 15-16 at Coldstream Country Club and notching a fifth-place finish at the Jim DeLapa Collegiate Sept. 28-29.
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Tournament History: This year’s tournament is the second edition of the Cullan Brown Collegiate, which honors the legacy of the late Cullan Brown, a member of the Kentucky men’s golf team from 2018-20 and a 2019 All-SEC Freshman Team selection. The Bearcats did not participate in the inaugural Cullan Brown Collegiate in 2024.
The Course: The 7,255-yard, par-71 Lexington Country Club opened in 1913 was designed by Tom Bendelow and has undergone a series of renovations by Kevin Hargrave. Due to a lack of penalty areas and out of bounds areas, the greens are LCC’s ultimate defense. Precision with irons to put the ball on the correct side of the green is critical to success at the course set in horse country northeast of Lexington.
The Field: Along with Cincinnati and host Kentucky, the 15-team field includes Eastern Kentucky, Kennesaw State, Lipscomb, Memphis, Michigan, Mississippi State, North Alabama, N.C. State, Penn State, Toledo, Virginia Tech, West Virginia and Western Kentucky
BEARCATS IN 2025-26
Through three tournaments, sophomore Leo Wessel leads the Bearcats with a 69.78 scoring average and a pair of top-10 finishes, while senior Ryan Ford sits second with a 69.89 average and two top-10 finishes. Senior Rylan Wotherspoon has participated in all three events, notching a 71.67 scoring average, while senior Connor McNeely and sophomore Connor Cassano have rounded out the Bearcat lineup through three tournaments with averages of 71.89 and 72.33, respectively.
Wessel has played six of his nine rounds under par, while Ford has carded five rounds under par.
CINCINNATI RUNS AWAY WITH BEARCAT INVITATIONAL
Three Bearcats finished in the top 10 and Cincinnati tallied three-consecutive rounds at 6-under par en route to an 11-stroke victory over an 18-team field at the Bearcat Invitational at Coldstream Country Club Sept. 16.
The host Bearcats, who won the event for the second time in four years, were paced by Connor McNeely and Leo Wessel, who tied for sixth at 4-under, and Ryan Ford, who finished a stroke back in a tie for ninth. All five Bearcats finished in the top 14 of the event.