ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Cale Fontenot and Hiroshi Tai each shot a 1-over 73 on Friday to hold off ninth-place Georgia Tech with an 8-over 296 total and tie for 13th place. University of Georgia Invitational Tournament.
On this day’s sunny home course, none of the Yellow Jackets could break par, falling 17 strokes short of the pace of seventh-place Virginia, which leads UCLA by one stroke. Fontenot and Ty are individually tied for 29th place.
Tech University had a victory under its collective belt at the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational. There, the Yellow Jackets defeated second-place Arizona State by one stroke and a 15-team field that included 11 other top 25 teams and a pair of eighth-place teams. – Finished this fall at Visit Knoxville College and the Ben Hogan College Invitational.
The 14-team field includes four teams that advanced to match play at last May’s NCAA Championships: Tech, Virginia (seven teams) and Vanderbilt (10 teams), as well as eight teams that competed in stroke play. . There are currently 10 teams in the top 25 of the scoreboard rankings.
Saturday’s second round will start from the 1st tee at 9am and from the 10th tee at 9:20am.
TECHNICAL LINEUP – Fontenot, a sophomore from Lafayette, Louisiana, had four birdies on Friday, but also had two bogeys and a triple. Ty, a junior from Singapore and the defending NCAA champion, had three birdies and four bogeys.
Redshirt junior Benjamin Reuter (Naarden, Netherlands) is tied for 41st with a 2-over 74, and freshman Albert Hansson (Fiskebekskill, Sweden) is tied for 55th with a 4-over 76. Sophomore Carson Kim (Yorba Linda, Calif.) shot a 77 (+5) but had no impact on the Jackets’ team score.
Tech’s highest score on Friday came from redshirt sophomore Brady Rackley IV (Atlanta, Ga.), who shot an even-par 72 and tied for 21st place. Freshman Didrik Ringvall Bengtsson (Stockholm, Sweden) shot a 2-over 74 to tie for 41st place, and junior Aidan Tran (Fresno, Calif.) shot a 78 to tie for 69th place.
Brady Rackley IV set Tech’s best score Friday with an even-par 72. (Photo by Clyde Crick)
Team Leaderboard – On Friday, No. 7 Virginia had four birdies and one eagle on the final 18th hole and finished with a team score of 279 (-9), beating UCLA, which had three below-average scores, by one. He took the lead in the first round by stroke difference. Total 8 under 280.
Duke (283, -5), Charlotte (284, -4), No. 10 Vanderbilt (285, -3) and Southern California (287, -) played Friday at The Golf’s par-72 Lakeside Course. 1) are all Georgia clubs that recorded shots under par.
Duke (283, -5), Charlotte (284, -4), No. 10 Vanderbilt (285, -3) and Southern California (287, -) played Friday at The Golf’s par-72 Lakeside Course. 1) are all Georgia clubs that recorded shots under par.
Individual Leaderboard – University of Charlotte’s Caden Baker tops the individual leaderboard after the opening round with a 6-under 66, followed by three golfers with 5-under 65s: UCLA’s Omar Morales, Pepperdine’s Luke Bailey and Duke University’s He beat Ethan Evans by one stroke. .
UCLA’s Pablo Eleno, Vanderbilt’s Jackson Van Paris and Virginia’s Duane Manny tied for fifth with 68 (-4), Vanderbilt’s Wells Williams, Clemson’s Rich Wills and Virginia’s Ben James had 69. (-3), tied for 8th place.
Virginia’s Brian Lee and two others are tied for 11th with a 2-under-par 70, and seven other golfers are in the clubhouse with a 1-under-par 71.66.
Tournament Information – The University of Georgia Golf Club, formerly known as the United States Collegiate Championship, will be contested at the Yellowjackets’ home club. The tournament will be held daily Friday through Sunday exclusively at the 18-hole, 7,092-yard, par-72 Lakeside Course. Competition begins at 9 a.m. Friday and Saturday, and at 8:30 a.m. Sunday. Admission is free for all three days.
Eight of the 14 teams competing at the University of Georgia Golf Club competed in the NCAA Championships last spring, with three teams (Tech, Vanderbilt and Virginia) reaching match play. There are currently 10 teams ranked in the top 25 in the NCAA rankings on Scoreboard.
All fields (Scoreboard NCAA golf rankings in parentheses) – Alabama (11), Charlotte (46), Clemson, Duke (44), East Tennessee State, Georgia Tech (9), Pepperdine ( 18), Southern California, Stanford (24), Tennessee (17), UCLA (39), Vanderbilt (10), Virginia (7), and Washington.
University of Georgia Golf Club History – Georgia Tech has won twice at the University of Georgia Golf Club in the 17-year history of this event, in 2010 and 2012. Three Tech athletes earned medalist honors. James White, who set tournament records for 18-hole score (62) and 54-hole score (204, broken in 2014), won in 2010, Ollie Schniederjans won in 2013, and will be the winner in 2022. Ihiro followed.
Clemson (2006, 2009), Oklahoma State (2013, 2017), Southern California (2008, 2019), Texas (2014, 2016), Virginia (2016, 2023) ) has also won twice. The Cavaliers won their second title last fall, after sharing it with the Longhorns in 2016. No tournaments were held in the fall of 2020 due to the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19).
The Yellow Jackets have finished as runners-up the past two years and finished in the top five 13 times in 17 years.
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