Men’s golf competed in their second invitational of the 2025-26 season on Sept. 22-23 in Oneonta, Alabama. Despite having difficulty on the first day of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference Invitational , the Lions still managed to finish with a score of 830.
Men’s golf returned to Florence with a new school record and a few trophies under their belt.
Junior Andrew Ferworn set a new school record for the best golf round in UNA golf history in the Division I era. He finished 63 and -7, including 17 birdies over the two-day invitational, which landed him second place overall.
Moving forward, the lions have already started to prepare for the remainder of their longest season.
“We have to keep working hard. If we want to reach the places we want to go we have to keep working hard every single day to get there,” said Head Coach, Austin Philips
The Limestone Springs course is typically “one of the harder courses on the schedule to play on,” Phillips said. “[It] did help that this is our third year playing here. We are having to get a hang of things.Then realizing this is not easy,and not an easy season.”
Men’s golf entered this season with some new faces. A freshman, Jedd Brady and two redshirt freshmen,Walter Waineby and Luke Davis and many players from all over the world.
“We have a pretty old team,” Phillips said. “We have 5 seniors and a junior of our 10 players.”
He said the veteran Lions on the team can be “a shoulder to lean on” for the younger athletes as they navigate personal player development.
Coming off the high of the GMAC Invitational, the team is “having to get a hang of things,” as said by Philips.
Philips has high hopes for his team, even with new freshmen as they are adapting on and off the course.
Moving forward to Cullen Brown Collegiate, Philips is ecstatic “to see what great things we can do.” He also said they “have a good chance to win the conference and make it an at-large bid as the top 65 team in the country.”
