San Francisco, California – New student Kale Fontnot On Thursday, he shot a 1-under 69 and tied for 8th place, while 15thNo. 1 Georgia Tech posted a 3-over-par 280 and is in seventh place after Goodwin's opening round.
On Thursday, only 20 of 168 players and three of 31 teams broke par at the par-70 TPC Harding Park Golf Course. This is a major championship venue where the PGA Championship and Presidents Cup have been held in recent years. The back nine was a big blow to the Yellow Jackets and their playing partners Georgia, Tennessee, and California. The Bulldogs, Volunteers and Stanford all share the lead at 1 under, while Tech is four shots back.
Goodwin's Round 2 begins Friday at 10 a.m. ET with the first and 10 games.th tea. The current Scoreboard NCAA Golf Rankings Top 50 lists 10 of the participating teams, with the top 25 including Tech (15), Tennessee (7), California (19), Georgia (22), Oregon (24) is included.
Tech lineup – Fontenot put together the most consistent round at Tech Thursday, posting a 69 with three birdies and two bogeys along the way, leaving him tied for eighth after the opening round. The freshman from Lafayette, Louisiana, is now three shots behind the lead.
Senior Christ Lamprecht (George, South Africa) and Bartley Forrester (Gainesville, Georgia) The Jackets each shot a 1-over-par 71 on Thursday, tied for 28th place.th place.new student Carson Kim (Yorba Linda, California) His 2-over-par 72 was Tech's fourth-highest score. Hiroshi Tai (Singapore) The Jackets were not counted at 4-over 74.
2nd grade Aidan Tran (Fresno, California) In individual competition, he shot 71 shots and tied for 28th place.th place.
Bartley Forrester is tied for 28th with a 71 on Thursday's card. (Photo credit: Ross Obry)
team leaderboard – Hosts Stanford and Tennessee each had three players in red, while Georgia had two, and both teams posted rounds of 1-under 279 to take the opening 18 holes. We finished and shared the lead.
Brigham Young shot an even-par 280 as a team, with two players under par for fourth place. Pepperdine is fifth at 281 (+1), UC Davis (282, +2) is sixth and Tech (283, +3) is his seventh.
Utah (284, +4), California and Clemson (both 285, +5) round out the top 10.
personal leaderboard – Clemson University's Jonathan Nielsen led the opening round Thursday with a bogey-free 4-under 66. He leads by one stroke over three 67-year-old (-3) players, including Stanford's Carl Willips, Pepperdine's Mananth Chiravuri and UC Davis' Leo Metzger.
Sampson Jenn of the University of California, Lance Simpson of the University of Tennessee and Keanu Akina of BYU tied for fifth with 68 (-2).engineer Kale Fontnot He is one of 13 players tied for 8th place with a 69 (-1).
Tournament information – Georgia Tech will be appearing at Goodwin for the fourth time, finishing second to Oklahoma in last year's tournament, with Christo Lamprecht earning individual runner-up honors. The event, named after legendary head coach Wally Goodwin, who led the Cardinal program from 1987 to 2000, takes place on one of the nation's elite courses and is headquartered at TPC Harding Park. The school will host the event for the third time in its history. TPC Harding Park has been the venue for numerous PGA Tour events, including the 2009 Presidents Cup and his 2020 PGA Championship. TPC Harding Park is set up as a 6,939 yard, par 70 layout.
The format is a traditional 54-hole tournament with 18 holes each day from Thursday to Saturday, with the lowest four points out of five each day counting towards the team's total.
The field is the largest team the Yellow Jackets play all year, including Appalachian State, BYU (43), California (19), Cal Baptist, Cal Davis, Cal Poly, Clemson, Colorado and Georgia (22). 31 teams including: Georgia Tech (15), Howard, Lipscomb, Little Rock, Long Beach State (48), Nevada, Oregon (25), Oregon State, Pepperdine, San Diego, San Diego State (29), San Jose State, San Francisco, Santa Clara; Southern California, Stanford (44), Tennessee (7), TCU, UCLA (33), Utah, Utah Tech, Washington State.
Host Stanford University has won the tournament 16 times since the inaugural edition in 1968. Past individual winners include major golf champions Tom Watson and Corey Pavin, as well as veteran PGA Tour pros such as Duffy Waldorf and Billy Mayfair, and young professionals such as Nick Taylor and Patrick. Rodgers, Maverick McNeely, and Brandon Wu.
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