Duke is back in Alpharetta this weekend with a familiar target in sight.
The Blue Devils open play Friday at the 20th Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate Invitational, a 54-hole event that runs through Sunday, Oct. 16-18, on the Lakeside Course at the Golf Club of Georgia. The par-72 track plays 7,017 yards, and Duke arrives with recent success at the event already on its résumé after winning the team title in 2024 and finishing second in 2025.
Head coach Bob Heintz’s group enters a 14-team field that is loaded at the top. The lineup includes Boston College, Charlotte, Clemson, Georgia Southern, Georgia Tech, Loyola Marymount, Northwestern, Pepperdine, Stanford, UAB, UCLA, USC and Virginia.
By Scoreboard’s national rankings, 11 teams in the field sit inside the top 55, with No. 15 Georgia Tech, No.
24 Clemson and No. 31 UCLA leading the way.
Six ACC programs are in the mix.
Duke will go with Carson Looney, Bryan Kim, Ollie Mukherjee, Sam Mukherjee and Jonathan Weinberg.
Looney has been one of Duke’s steadier pieces early in the fall, stacking two top-10 finishes through the first three tournaments. The sophomore from Bethesda, Maryland, paces the Blue Devils with a 72.25 stroke average and a team-best 28 birdies.
Kim is back at the same event where he claimed individual medalist honors a year ago. The senior from Brookeville, Maryland, carded an 11-under-par 205 to win one of his two tournament titles during the 2025-26 campaign.
Weinberg, a freshman from Boca Raton, Florida, will make his first appearance in Duke’s five-player tournament lineup. He joins the Mukherjee brothers, juniors from East Lothian, Scotland, to round out the Blue Devils’ group.
Play gets underway at 9 a.m. Friday and Saturday, then shifts to an 8:30 a.m. start Sunday. Tee times will run off both No. 1 and No. 10 throughout the tournament, with live hole-by-hole scoring available on Scoreboard.
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