Final Results - Men's Golf Opens Season at Gopher Invitational

[knightfan7]

Excluding 2020 when there was no Fall schedule (Covid), Rutgers opens their season for the 7th year in a row at Minnesota. 36 holes will be played Sunday with the 18 hole final Monday.

Last year RU led by 3 strokes after 36 holes before stumbling in the final 18, dropping to 8th in a tightly bunched field. Individually Rhett Sellers and Xavier Marcoux were in or tied for 1st throughout the first 2 rounds before finishing T4 and T10.

While no lineup is listed at the moment, it would seem likely vereran regulars Grad Xavier Marcoux (1 career individual title), Sr Rhett Sellers,Grad Luke Wells, and Jr Weston Jones will make up 4 of the 5 players entered. The 5th would come from Utah transfer Jr Martin Leon (Chile), Soph Logan Paczewski, freshmen Andrew Reyes (TX), or Derek Gutierrez (Cranford, NJ).

Based on the '22-'23 Sagarin rankings, Northwestern comes in as the highest ranked team at #30 out of 305 D1 programs. They are followed by #53 Notre Dame, #54 Kansas, and #58 Furman. At #77 Rutgers comes in as the 8th highest ranked in the 14 team field.

Spikemark takes over for long time NCAA official scorer, Golfstat, this season. The site has been down for the past 1-2 weeks while they upgrade their system so there may be problems getting info but who knows?

 

[knightfan7]

After the 2 Rounds today, Rutgers finds itself tied for 4th out of 14 with a team 286-281 for a total of 567 (-1).

Rutgers was led by Rhett Sellers with a 2 round total of 71-67 (-4) and Luke Wells 70-70 (-2).

Rutgers Individual Standings

T3. Rhett Sellers (-4)
T10. Luke Wells (-2)
T25. Xavier Marcoux (+1)
T58. Martin Leon (+8)
T67. Weston Jones (+10)

Top 5 Teams

T1. Northwestern....-5
T1. UNCW..................-5
3. Kansas...................-3
T4. RUTGERS............-1
T4. Minnesota..........-1

In tomorrow's final round RU will be paired with Minnesota and Kent St.

 

[knightfan7]

Rutgers struggled a bit, shooting a 5 Over 289. They fell 3 spots finishing 7th out of 14 teams. The field was so tightly bunched that the Knights only finished 3 strokes out of 3rd Place with a 3 round total of 856 (+4). Rutgers was led today by Weston Jones' 3 under 68.

Final Rutgers Individual Standings

T11. Luke Wells (-1)
T15. Rhett Sellers (E)
T40. Xavier Marcoux (+5)
T49. Weston Jones (+7)
T57. Martin Leon (+11)

Final Top 5 Teams

1. UNCW...................-7
2. Kent St.................-3
3, Kansas.................+1
4. Marquette..........+2
T5. Northwestern..+3
T5. Minnesota........+3

The team next heads to Chicago a week from today for the Highlands Invitational. Among the teams scheduled to compete are Wake Forest, Virginia, Mizzou, Iowa, Indiana, Maryland, and PSU.

 

[Tango Two]

Men's Golf Opens Season at Gopher Invitational with 7th-Place Finish - Rutgers University Athletics

Independence, MN - Rutgers men's golf finished in seventh place in their season-opening tournament at the 18th annual Gopher Invitational at Windsong Farm Golf

scarletknights.com

 

[wasiman]

Former Rutgers player Chris Gotterup on way to PGA tour. He needed a put on the last hole on the Korn Ferry tour tournament yesterday. He is currently 24 place in point rankings , Top 30 get their PGA cards.

 

[knightfan7]

Former Rutgers player Chris Gotterup on way to PGA tour. He needed a put on the last hole on the Korn Ferry tour tournament yesterday. He is currently 24 place in point rankings , Top 30 get their PGA cards.

He's been knocking on the Top 30 door for the last 2-3 tourneys but couldn't escape that one poor round mostly caused by poor play off the tee. The two weeks off seemed to help. He'd been averaging less than 50% in Driving Accuracy but was over 80% this week and finished 5th with a consistent 69-69-69-68 for 13 Under.

 

[kupuna133]

Can’t win or place in tournaments at the college level if 3 of your golfers are regularly greatly over par. One or two you have a chance but 3? How is this even possible? It’s not like these courses are set up with any more difficulty than your average member guest.

 

[knightfan7]

It's not like this team hasn't come close a couple times, it's that they're just so inconsistent. The Women's team have had real issues. The situation they found themselves in last season was tough. Maybe there were extenuating circumstances but to be unable to field an entire team the last 2 tourneys? 3 players leave the team in a 6 month period?

I'm guessing they don't get the support other schools get. If you have a moment take a look at the facilities schools like Illinois, OSU, and other B1G schools have. Even so, the Men were ranked in the top 1/4 of all D1 and the top team in the Northeast. The Women were in the top 1/2 of D1.