Duke men’s golf heads back into action Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 5-6, at the seventh Hamptons Intercollegiate, a 54-hole event at Maidstone Club in East Hampton, New York.
Hosted by Loyola University Maryland, the tournament brings together a 12-team field that includes Duke, Loyola Maryland, Florida, Florida State, Georgetown, Harvard, Ole Miss, Princeton, Rutgers, Utah, Wake Forest and Yale. The Blue Devils will play the 6,742-yard course at Maidstone Club as they continue their fall schedule.
Duke has opened the 2026-27 season with a pair of top-five finishes, taking fifth at the Sahalee Players Championship and then fourth at the Rod Myers Invitational in its latest outing. This is the Blue Devils’ third tournament of the fall under second-year head coach Bob Heintz.
The lineup for the week features Carson Looney, Ollie Mukherjee, Bryan Kim, Sam Mukherjee and Clark Mason.
Looney and Ollie Mukherjee share the team lead with a 72.40 stroke average through five rounds. Looney delivered Duke’s best individual finish so far this fall, finishing eighth at Sahalee with a 3-over 219.
Mukherjee was right behind him in a tie for ninth at 4-over 220. Mukherjee also leads the team with 16 birdies, while Looney has collected a team-high two eagles in the first two events.
Kim was Duke’s top performer last time out, tying for 14th at the Rod Myers Invitational with a 3-under 141. He closed with a 4-under 68 in the second round, helping the Blue Devils post a 7-under 281, their lowest team round of the season.
Sam Mukherjee has appeared in both of Duke’s first two events and brings a 74.40 scoring average into the Hamptons Intercollegiate. He tied for 23rd at the Rod Myers Invitational.
Mason, a freshman, is in the lineup for the third straight event after shooting a 4-under 68 in the second round at Rod Myers. He has 15 birdies across his first five collegiate rounds.
Play starts Monday morning with the first groups off at 7:35 a.m. Duke will begin on hole No. 1 and the field will play 36 holes on the opening day. The final round gets underway Tuesday at 7:35 a.m.
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