LOUDON, Tenn- Charlotte’s Men’s Golf is set to open the 2025-2026 season on Friday (Sept. 5th) with round one of the Visit Knoxville Collegiate.
The event, now in its third year of existence, is played at the par 70, 7,201-yard Tennessee National Golf Club. The Greg Norman-designed course, situated along the Tennessee River, offers a long and challenging layout.
ROSTER OUTLOOK
Off the heels of winning the American Conference championship, Charlotte is ready to compete in its 49th season in program history. Ryan Cabbage enters his 15th season leading the program, alongside first-year assistant coach Cody Carroll, who joins Charlotte after spending the 2024-25 season with LSU.
Charlotte returns the majority of last season’s roster while adding two new players to the roster. Lake Willaims comes from Greenville, NC, a graduate of J.H. Rose High School, is a 2024 3A East Regional Champ (64) and a 2022 3A Team State Champion. He recorded four Carolina Golf Association (CGA) top 10 finishes last season and was ranked 58th in the 2025 class.
Chase Cline is a transfer from Western Carolina where he led the team last year with a scoring average of 72.8 including a second-place finish at the Los Vaqueros Intercollegiate. Cline was also a Southern Conference Freshman Team selection.
This weekend, Cline joins four starters from the 2025 NCAA Bremerton Regional team. Senior Justin Matthews is coming off his best season with three top ten individual finishes including a tie for first place at the Gators Invitational and a third-place finish at the Wyoming Desert Invitational, helping the Niners win the title. He had a scoring average of 71.30 for the 2024-2025 season ranking fourth all-time.
Seb Cave led the team with his impressive scoring average of 70.67 which set the new program record. Cave also had six top 15 finishes including third place at the conference tournament to force a playoff where the 49ers would eventually win the title. Daniel Boone, Jr. is another notable returnee as he was named to the American All-Conference Team alongside Matthews and Cave.
FORMAT:
Dates: Friday September 5, 2025-Sunday September 7,2025
Course:Tennessee National Golf Club, Tennessee
Scoring: clt49e.rs/VKC25
Par/Yardage: 70 / 7,201 yards
Schedule: Each day, tee times are between 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. with each tee time 11 minutes apart.
TOP FIVE TEAMS (CLIPPD)
4th-Ole Miss
8th-LSU
23rd-Georgia Tech
25th-Tennesee
44th- Charlotte
THE FIELD:
Ole Miss, LSU, East Tennessee State, Toledo, Virginia Tech, College of Charleston, Tennessee, Chattanooga, Iowa, North Florida, Loyola Marymount, Kentucky, Augusta, North Carolina State, Georgia Tech, and Charlotte.
Visit Knoxville Collegiate features a competitive field stacked with 13 of the 16 teams competing are ranked in the top 100 based on Scoreboard by Clippd 2024/2025 rankings.
CHARLOTTE LINEUP (scoring average)
Seb Cave (70.67)
Justin Matthews (71.30)
Daniel Boone, Jr. (72.29)
Frazer Jones (72.33)
Chase Cline (72.80)
TEE TIMES
Daniel Boone (10:47 a.m.), Frazer Jones (10:58 a.m.), Justin Matthews (11:09 a.m.), Chase Cline (11:20 a.m.), and Seb Cave (11:31 a.m.) will compete in round one for Charlotte.
