Men's Golf Faces Tough Test At Augusta Haskins Award Inv - Final Results

[knightfan7]

The Haskins Award goes to the Top College golfer. Chris Gotterup won it while at Oklahoma in 2022. It was the 2nd year in a row a NJ golfer won as Jon Pak won in '21 playing for Florida State. Other winners include Phil Mickelson (3 times), Tiger Woods, Justin Thomas, Matt Kuchar, Patrick Cantlay, Ludvig Aberg, and Sahith Theegala.

With #1 Texas, #9 UNC, #13 Illinois, and #19 Arizona heading the field along with #28 Texas Tech, Rutgers faces it's toughest field of '24-'25 to date. Texas, UNC, and Illini also participated last year. Other teams include #54 Coll of Charleston, #64 Furman, and #69 Kennesaw St. At #127 the Knights comes in 12th of 13 with #191 Navy 13th. 2010 and 2011 NCAA Champ, Augusta, is host.

The teams will play the renovated, Donald Ross design, 7088yd Par 72 Forest Hills GC in Augusta. The course had received major damage from Hurricane Helene last Fall requiring the removal of 1,100 trees.

2 Perks playing in this event.....

- Every team gets free tickets to the Masters Monday practice round.

- The individual winner gets a spot in 1 PGA Tour full field event.

A few weeks ago, a similar tourney in Fla also gave all participants free admittance, that time to the Players Monday practice. Texas Junior Luke Potter, who had won the individual title the day before and will be playing for the Longhorns this week, was kicked off the course. He was following Rory McIlroy while filming himself heckling Rory as they went. Rory finally had enough, responding by confronting Potter, grabbing Potter's phone, and walking away with it. Potter did get the phone back as he was being escorted off the property.

Lineups have not been posted. Sr Capt Weston Jones, Grad Noah Kumar, and the Frosh duo of Argyle Downs and Bennett Espenshade are a close to a lock to start. The 5th spot along with a possible entrant as an individual would likely come from those who have also competed this year in Sophs Derek Gutierrez, Andrew Reyes, and/or Frosh Max Jackson.

There are a number of the best college golfers expected to compete......

#1 David Ford (UNC)
#2 Daniel Bennett (Texas)
#4 Christiaan Maas (Texas)
#10 Tommy Morrison (Texas)
#17 Kieron Van Wyk (Charleston)*
#23 Jackson Buchanan (Illinois)

* Won the Individual Title in most recent tourney Rutgers competed in.

Ford will be going for his 4th '24-25 win, Van Wyk his 3rd.

 

[knightfan7]

According to 1 site RU will go with the 4 I mentioned (Jones, Kumar, Espenshade, Downes) and Derek Gutierrez with no one entered as an individual.

EDIT:

Also for some reason I can't explain there were 2 teams not listed until this evening on the NCAA Scorer Site. I didn't notice till I just stumbled across it on the site I found Rutgers lineup. There are now 15 teams with the addition of #5 Oklahoma State and #39 Notre Dame. For the moment both sites line up but stay tuned lol.

The battle for the Individual Title also just got tougher with the addition of 1 more Top 10 player from Okie State and 2 Top 25 1 from each from OSU and ND.

#7 Ethan Fang (OSU)
#19 Preston Stout (OSU)
#21 Jacob Modleski (ND)

 

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Men’s Golf Heads to Augusta For The Haskins​

Men’s Golf Heads to Augusta For The Haskins - Rutgers University Athletics

AUGUSTA, Ga. - The Rutgers men's golf squad continues their spring season this weekend at the home of the world-famous Masters Tournament, Augusta, Georgia

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[knightfan7]

Playing in tournament featuring a number of the Top teams in the country. Rutger shot a 5 Over 293, finding themselves in 11th place in the 15 team field. Leading Rutgers was Frosh Bennett Espenshade with a 3 Under 69 (3 Birdies, 15 Pars) in today's first Round. He is currently in a 5 way tie for 6th in the 78 player field. He was followed by Grad Noah Kumar with a 1 Over 73, Sr Weston Jones shot 75, with Frosh Argyle Downes and Derek Gutierrez carding 76's.

Top 5 Players

T1. Max Henerdreen (Illinois)............-6
T1. Preston Stout (Ok State)
3. Yannick Malik (East Tenn)............-5
T5. Tommy Morrison (Texas)............-4
T5. Christiaan Mass (Texas)

Top 5 Teams

1. #1 Texas..........................-7
T2. #26 Texas Tech........-5
T2. #39 Notre Dame
4. #9 North Carolina......-4
T5. #10 Ilinois...................-3
T5. #21 Arizona

2nd Round under way.

 

[knightfan7]

In the Afternoon Round, the Knights shot the same score, a 5 Over 293 and remain in 11th of 15. The team was led by Grad Noah Kumar's 2 Under 70. His round consisted of 2 Birdies and 16 Pars. At 1 Under he stands T15. He was followed by Fr Argyle Downes 1 Over 73. Fr Bennett Espenshade shot 75. His 2 round score of Even Par puts him T19. So Derek Gutierrez also shot 75 with Sr Weston Jones carding a 78.

In the team standings the cream has come to the top. The 4 teams in the Top 13 are currently 1 thru 4.

1, #13 Illinois.........................-11
2. #5 Oklahoma State......-10
3. #1 Texas............................-9
4. #9 North Carolina.........-8
5. #39 Notre Dame............-7

Top 5 Individuals (Which one is not like the others?)

1. #10 Preston Stout (Ok St)............-10
T2. #1 David Ford (UNC).....................-9
T2. #48 Max Herendeen (Ilini)
4. #21 Jacob Modlewski (ND)............-8
5. #440 Yannick Malik (ETU)............-6

In tomorrows Final Round Rutgers will be paired with Augusta and Richmond off the 10th Tee starting at 8:40

 

[knightfan7]

In Round 3, Rutgers shot the worst round of the 15 teams entered, an 11 Over 299. No other team shot higher than 6 Over. Doing so the team dropped from 11th to 13th with a 3 Round score of 21 Over. The one brightish spot was Noah Kumar's Even Par 72. He finished T20. Derek Gutierrez shot 75, finishing T62, Bennett Espenshade (T44) and Argyle Downes (T58) shot 76, and Weston Jones (T72) shot 78.

Hey at least they get to walk Augusta National, watching the pros practice tomorrow.

Top 5 Teams

T1. #1 Texas....................................-20
T1. #5 Oklahoma State
3. #13 Illinois.................................-15
T4. #9 North Carolina................-8
T4. #39 Notre Dame

Top 5 Players

T1. #1 David Ford (UNC)..............-12 (4th Ist Place finish in '24-'25)
T1. #48 Max Herendeen (Ill)
3. #10 Preston Stout (Ok St)....-11
4. #21 Jacob Modleski (ND).......-9
5. #58 Zach Pollo (Arizona).......-8

Next up is the Princeton Invitational this coming weekend at the Springdale GC. This was not on the original schedule. Back about 2 months ago, Head Coach Rob Shutte said that the tourney in October that was cancelled due Hurricane damage was to be made up by adding a tourney in the Spring. This is it. Besides #72 Princeton, others in the 14 team field include Yale, Harvard, Seton Hall, Georgetown, Columbia, Temple, and Penn. After that it's the B1G Championship at the Baltimore CC in Md the 25th-27th.

UPDATE: Chaos at Augusta National. Crowds turned away this morning as severe weather forcast has caused the cancellation of today's practice round so the team misses out.

 

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Espenshade and Kumar Lead The Way At “The Haskins” - Rutgers University Athletics

AUGUSTA, Ga. - The Rutgers men's golf team completed the Augusta Haskins Invitational this weekend, where they faced some of the toughest golf competition in the

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