Men's Golf Opens Season Today at Gopher Invitational

[knightfan7]

Season starts this morning. 4 starters from '21-'22 being joined by frosh James Newton from Canada. Going by last year's rankings #17 Notre Dame leads the field followed by 3 Top 50 teams in #29 Kansas, #46 Michigan St, and #44 Georgia Southern.

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[knightfan7]

After the first round, with identical 64's (-7) by Xavier Marcoux and Rhett Sellers, Rutgers finds itself in 1st Place. Others whose round counted in the team score were Weston Jones 72 (+1) and James Newton 73 (+2). Marcoux and Sellers are also tied for 1st as individuals.

Top 5

Rutgers... -11
Mich St... -9
Ga So.......-8
Yale..........-5
Kansas.....-4

 

[wngarbarini]

Way to go guys. Keep it up.

 

[knightfan7]

At the end of the afternoon round, Rutgers has increased their lead to 3 strokes after shooting a team 4 Under. Several teams made big runs including Kent St (-11), Furman (-8), Baylor (-12) and ND (-11).

Rutgers was lead by Luke Wells 2 Under 69 followed by Xavier Marcoux and Rhett Sellers with 1 Unders. The other counting score was Frosh James Newton's Even Par.

Along with 2 others, Marcoux and Sellers continue to be tied for 1st place in the individual competition at -8.

Top Half of Field

Rutgers......-15
Mich St......-12
Kent St......-11
Ga So.........-11
Furman......-9
Kansas.......-8
Baylor........-8

Rutgers should be paired with MSU and either Kent St or Ga Southern in the final round. Good luck to the team.

 

[Tango Two]

 

[knightfan7]

Sooooooooooo.

Heading into the back 9, 1st Place Rutgers had a 2 stroke lead over 2nd Place Georgia Southern. From that point they went in vastly different directions and it wasn't a good one for RU.

The team shot an overall +9 on the back to fall all the way from 1st at 18 Under to 8th Place at 9 Under Their 18 hole team score of +6 was the 2nd worst round by any of the 15 teams. And that's that.

Rhett Sellers (-6) finished tied for 4th
Xavier Marcoux (-5) finished tied for 10th
Luke Wells contributed the only below par round today (-2)

 

[bigmatt718]

Sooooooooooo.

Heading into the back 9, 1st Place Rutgers had a 2 stroke lead over 2nd Place Georgia Southern. From that point they went in vastly different directions and it wasn't a good one for RU.

The team shot an overall +9 on the back to fall all the way from 1st at 18 Under to 8th Place at 9 Under Their 18 hole team score of +6 was the 2nd worst round by any of the 15 teams. And that's that.

Rhett Sellers (-6) finished tied for 4th
Xavier Marcoux (-5) finished tied for 10th
Luke Wells contributed the only below par round today (-2)

Disappointing finish. Why does the team fade out in the last round? Is it conditioning?

 

[knightfan7]

Disappointing finish. Why does the team fade out in the last round? Is it conditioning?

That's a great question. It's an experienced, veteran first 4 with at least 8 years between them. They played well for 2 rounds but as you know, they often do seem to fade at the end.

 

[richthedentist]

Disappointing finish. Why does the team fade out in the last round? Is it conditioning?

Definitely not conditioning these guys can play golf every day of the week

 

[knightfan7]

As a team they played 11-12 at 5 over and had 3 double bogeys on the last 3 holes. Perplexing.

 

[Tango Two]

Men’s Golf Finishes 8th at Season-Opening Gopher Invitational - Rutgers University Athletics

INDEPENDENCE, Minn. – Rutgers men's golf finished play at the Gopher Invitational on Monday at the Windsong Farm Golf Club in Independence, Minnesota. In contention

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[Tango Two]

 

[knightfan7]

Stuff happens but this was really disappointing. Play so well for 46 holes then a total team collapse the final 8 holes. May be my imagination but seems to happen way too often for both golf teams.