Middle Tennessee, Connecticut Win Golfweek/Stifel Spring Challenge at Caledonia, True Blue
Middle Tennessee rode a strong final-round performance to capture the women’s team competition while the University of Connecticut made a late surge to win the men’s division of the 2026 Golfweek/Stifel Spring Challenge Wednesday at Caledonia and True Blue.
Samford’s Grace Engel (-5) took home medalist honors in the women’s competition, as one of only four players at Caledonia to finish the 54-hole competition at or under par. Alejandro Fierro of Alabama-Birmingham won the men’s division with a three-round total of 207 (-9). Breezy conditions throughout much of the tourney made scoring a challenge, with just five of the 35 teams in competition this week carding three-round total scores at or under par.
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With its victory at Caledonia, Middle Tennessee was awarded a spot in the 2026 Haskins Women’s Intercollegiate to be held Oct. 11-13 in Columbus, Ga., while Connecticut’s win earned them a place in the 2027 Augusta Haskins Award Invitational.
Thirty-five NCAA Division I programs were put to the test this week (19 on the women’s side, and 16 on the men’s). Charleston Southern, Evansville, Fairleigh Dickinson, Jacksonville State, Marshall and Ohio sent teams in each division, with the men’s division also including George Washington University, Georgia State, New Orleans, Queens University of Charlotte, Sacred Heart, Alabama-Birmingham, Connecticut, USC Upstate, West Georgia, and William & Mary.
Women’s competition featured the six aforementioned, dual-entry schools plus Akron, Ball State, Coastal Carolina, Middle Tennessee, Missouri State, Morehead State, Radford, Samford, Stephen F. Austin State, Stonehill College, UNC Asheville, Western Michigan, and Winthrop.
