Duke is back on its home course this week, and the Blue Devils will spend Monday and Tuesday trying to defend a title they already know how to win.
The 16th annual Rod Myers Invitational tees off Sept. 21-22 at the Duke University Golf Club in Durham, with a 13-team field set for the two-day, 54-hole event. Admission and parking are free for spectators, and live scoring will be available on Scoreboard.
Duke, led by second-year head coach Bob Heintz, will be paired with Furman and UNCW for the first two rounds on Monday. The opening 36 holes begin with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start, followed by the final round Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.
The Blue Devils’ lineup features sophomore Carson Looney, junior Ollie Mukherjee, senior Bryan Kim, junior Sam Mukherjee and junior John Hiller. Four more Duke players will compete as individuals: freshman Clark Mason, sophomore Charles Nelson, sophomore Alexander Weinberg and freshman Jonathan Weinberg, who is scheduled to make his Duke debut.
The tournament brings together Duke, Furman, George Mason, Harvard, Northern Illinois, Princeton, Richmond, UNCG, UNCW, UTSA, Virginia Tech, Wofford and Xavier.
Duke enters as the defending champion after claiming its fourth team title in the event last fall and its second in a three-year stretch. The Blue Devils finished the 2025 tournament at 20-under-par 844, finishing nine strokes ahead of runner-up UNCW at 11-under 853. That 20-under total stands as Duke’s second-lowest 54-hole team score in the 15-year history of the tournament and its best since 22-under in 2017.
Kim paced Duke individually with a 7-under 209 to finish second, which was the best individual finish by a Blue Devil in the event since 2019.
The tournament carries Rod Myers’ name in honor of the longtime Duke coach, who led the program from 1973 until his death in 2007. Myers, a two-time ACC Coach of the Year, guided Duke to 30 tournament victories, the 2005 ACC Championship and seven NCAA Championship appearances. He also coached 16 All-Americans and nine Academic All-Americans.
His legacy remains visible around campus, where Duke’s golf training center and an endowed athletic scholarship both bear his name.
The Duke University Golf Club, designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., will play as a 7,154-yard, par-72 course for the event.
Duke arrives home after opening the 2026-27 season with a fifth-place finish at the Sahalee Players Championship in Sammamish, Washington. That field included 12 teams that finished last season ranked among the top 50 in the Scoreboard rankings, with seven of those inside the top 20.
Looney and Ollie Mukherjee each posted top-10 finishes to lead the Blue Devils in that season opener.
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