BALTIMORE – The Loyola University Maryland men's golf team will play from the Eastern tip of Long Island to the shores of Hawai'i during the 2021-2022 season that features 11 different tournaments.
Loyola will be the host school for three of the tournament, including the Hamptons Intercollegiate at Maidstone Country Club in October and competitions in Arizona and Florida during February and January.
The schedule culminates April 29-May 1 as Loyola will look to defend its Patriot League Championship when the conference championships are conducted in Hellertown, Pennsylvania.
The Greyhounds are due to start the 2021-2022 season with Duke's Rod Myers Collegiate in Durham, North Carolina, from September 10-11, before playing in another top-level event hosted by an Atlantic Coast Conference school. Loyola will play in the Old Town Club Collegiate Invitational for the second time in three years, a September 27-28 tournament hosted by Wake Forest.
The following week, Loyola will head to Maidstone Country Club, one of the premier golf courses in the nation, in East Hampton, New York, to host the Hamptons Intercollegiate. The October 4-5 event was first held in October 2019 and will include several notable teams this season, including: Duke, Georgia Tech, California, Northwestern, Virginia, Liberty, Penn, Princeton, Yale, George Washington and Georgetown
Loyola will compete for the third straight week on October 10-11 when it plays in the Georgetown Intercollegiate in Beallsville, Maryland.
That tournament will be the penultimate of the fall for the Greyhounds and the last before they head across the Pacific Ocean for their next event. Loyola will compete in the three-day Ka'anapali Classic, hosted by the University of Hawai'i, on the Island of Maui from October 29-31.
Spring competition opens for the Greyhounds in traditional format as they will host the Loyola Intercollegiate at Palm Valley Golf Club in Goodyear, Arizona from February 20-22.
Loyola will return to the Southern Pines, North Carolina, for the second-straight season, and compete in the Mid-Pines Intercollegiate, hosted by George Mason, March 7-8. Last season, Loyola won the Donald Ross Intercollegiate at the same Mid-Pines Golf Club.
They then travel to Lake Worth, Florida, and The Falls Club for the Southern Intercollegiate, a tournament that will bear Loyola's name as the host while it is run by alumnus T.J. Shuart.
A new event is next for the Greyhounds when they compete at the Lewis Chitengwa Invitational April 11-12, hosted by the University of Virginia. Loyola then heads back to State College, Pennsylvania, for the second April in a row to compete in Penn State's Rutherford Intercollegiate April 16-17.
Loyola will vie for its fifth Patriot League Championship since joining the conference in 2013-14 from April 29-May 1 at the Steel Club in Hellertown, Pa. The winner of the Patriot League crown will also receive a bid to the 2022 NCAA Regionals.