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Scots close to cut at National Tournament after Round 1
Release Date:
May 13, 2009
MONMOUTH, Ill. —
The Monmouth College men’s golf team pulled a tough
assignment this week – play golf in Florida.
The Fighting Scots are making their second trip to the NCAA National
Golf Championships in three years this week after capturing the
Midwest Conference title and the automatic NCAA Tournament berth
that goes with it. Sun and a high of 81 greeted the Scots for
Wednesday’s opening round and they responded with a respectable 314,
but they sit in a tie for 28th position, 35 strokes behind Round 1
leader Methodist University which shot an amazing 9-under 279. The
Scots are just 7 strokes from making cut of the top 23 teams for
Friday and Saturday’s final rounds.
Ryan Harvey
began the round in great shape, birdying the first hole and
completing the front nine at even par. Trouble on the back nine,
including a triple-bogey on the par 4, 322 yard 12th dropped him out
of the top 10. He finished the round with a 6-over 78, tied for
105th.
Rodney Clayton’s
round was just the opposite. He found himself 3-over par through the
first six holes before back-to-back birdies got him to plus-1, but a
bogey on 9 put him at 2-over at the turn. Clayton then birdied two
of the first three holes on the back nine to finish the day at
1-over 73 and in a tie for 32nd.
Three birdies on the front nine by
Ryan Tapscott
were offset by a triple and double bogey as he made the turn at
3-over. A triple on the 495-yard, par 4 15th hurt his chances to
rebound as he finished the day’s play with an 8-over 80.
A birdie on 10 came in the middle of a pair of triple bogeys for
Ted Starkey
who wound up
the day with an 83. Greg
Jones
rounded out the Scots day with a 90.
The Scots begin play Thursday morning at 11:10 EDT on the Ryder
Course, a course longer, but similar to, Monmouth’s home course at
Gibson Woods. Ryder, a 7,056-yard par 72 course, is set among
rolling fairways and plenty of timber.
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