Men's Golf Leads After 1st Round at Purdue's Boilermaker Invitational

[knightfan7]

A little confusing. Golfstat has it Sat and Sun on it's monthly schedule as does host Purdue and RU on their sites. On the other hand, when you click on the tourney on Golfstat it says Fri and Sat. It also lists tee times, which holes teams will be starting on (shotgun) and lineups. That doesn't normally get posted till the day before. I guess I'll know tomorrow morning.

Whenever it starts, Rutgers has posted their regular lineup with Xavier Marcoux, Luke Wells, Rhett Sellers, Weston Jones, and returning after having to withdraw earlier in the week out at Mizzou, Noah Kumar. Frosh Logan Paczewski gets to play as an Individual.

The field is led by Golfstat's #11 Oklahoma and #38 Purdue. Rutgers at #75 is the 5th highest ranked team in the field of 13. Competing along with Purdue and RU is #73 Wisconsin from the B1G. Back in September ND and OSU were listed but things sometimes change. To date RU's SOS is #55 in the country out of 305 per Sagarin. There are only 5 teams ranked in the Top 100 playing making this one of the weaker fields RU has competed against this year.

 

[knightfan7]

Led by Noah Kumar's 3 Under 68, Rutgers (-5) holds a 1 stroke lead over #11 Oklahoma and Wisconsin. Follow Kumar were Xavier Marcoux and Luke Wells with 2 Under 69's. Weston Jones shot 73 (+2) and Rhett Sellers (+4), 75. Playing as an individual, Logan Pazcewski shot Even Par 71. Kumar stands T3 as an individual with Marcoux and Wells T5. Wisconsin's Cameron Huss leads after shooting a 6 Under 65. Nice start by the Knights.

Top 5 with Golfstat Rankings

1. #75 Rutgers................-5
T2. #11 Oklahoma..........-4
T2. #73 Wisconsin.........-4
4. #38 Purdue................-3
5. #72 Kent State..........-2

The 1st 7 places are tightly bunched with 7 strokes separating them.

 

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[knightfan7]

Rutgers time atop the leaderboard was short lived as they dropped 4 spots to 5th after shooting an Even Par 284.

RU was led by Luke Wells 3 Under 68 which put him tied for 2nd individually at 5 Under. Weston Jones shot Even Par 71, followed by Noah Kumar's 72, Xavier Marcoux's 73, and Rhett Sellers 75. Logan Paczewski shot 73 as an individual entrant.

Purdue, playing on their home course, went low with an 11 Under team score to take over 1st place.

Top 6 after 2 Rounds

1. Purdue....................-14
2. Oklahoma..............-11
T3. Wisconsin.............-8
T3. Kent St.................-8
5. Rutgers....................-5

Final Round is under way.

 

[knightfan7]

Rutgers had a rough final round, 7 Over, falling to a 6th Place Finish with a 3 Round score of 2 Over.

RU was led by Rhett Sellers Even Par 71 the team shot +7. Following Sellers was Luke Wells 72, Noah Kumar and Weston Jones with 74's, and Xavier Marcoux's 75. Logan Paczewski also shot 75 as an individual.

RU was the 5th highest ranked team entered so the finish was close to what would be expected.

Final Top 6 with Golfstat Rankings

1, #38 Purdue.................-30
2. #11 Oklahoma............-29
3. #72 Kent State..........-16
T4. #73 Wisconsin.........-8
T4 #111 Illinois State......-8
6. #75 RUTGERS.............+2

Next up is the B1G championship in 2 weeks at Galloway National. Rutgers will be looking to better their best finish (2019) where led by Chris Gotterup's 4th place and Shayler Dance's 9th place finish, RU came in 6th.

 

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Wells Leads 6th-Place Men's Golf Finish at Boilermaker Invitational​

Wells Leads 6th-Place Men's Golf Finish at Boilermaker Invitational - Rutgers University Athletics

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Rutgers men's golf earned a sixth place finish out of 13 teams at the Boilermaker Invitational hosted by Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana.

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