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(04/25/11 1:15am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After a season that featured a couple of near-victories and the first collegiate golf season of standout freshman Lindsay Gahm, the IU women’s golf team finished its season Sunday in Glencoe, Ill., at the Big Ten Women’s Golf Championships. It finished the 72-hole tournament in seventh place with a team score of 1,221, 69 shots over par on the par-72 Lake Shore Country Club golf course.After starting Sunday’s final round in sixth place, the Hoosiers seemed to struggle right out of the gate, with five of the six girls bogeying the first hole of the round, and in the end, dropping them to seventh. Gahm lead the team for the tournament with a 16-over 304 (78-75-76-75) after a final round 75, finishing tied for 21st. IU’s No. 1 seeded player, junior Kristtini Cain, finished Sunday with a 76 after three-straight 77s, landing her in 26th place, just three shots behind Gahm.Sophomore Kate Coons (74-79-79-76), posting a 74, the low round of the tournament for the team in the first round, finished just one shot behind Cain with 308, tied for 27th. Freshman Sophie Hayashi (tied for 29th), sophomore Rosie Davies (tied for 32nd) and senior Lauren Giesecke (tied for 51st) rounded out the team.IU coach Clint Wallman said the conference’s strength was too much for his team over the weekend.“We showed a lot of promise out there this weekend, but we didn’t finish exactly where we wanted to,” he said. “The Big Ten teams are very strong. I mean, Purdue won the NCAAs last year and finished second today to Michigan State. I think we showed great promise this weekend, and though we have a challenge ahead to be able to compete here in the future, we have the people who can do it.”
(04/22/11 2:07am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After its 10th-place finish in the final regular season tournament at the Lady Buckeye Spring Invitational, the IU women’s golf team will travel to the Lake Shore Country Club in Glencoe, Ill., for the Big Ten Championships.In one of the team’s worst performances of the season, the Hoosiers shot only three rounds under par. Junior Kristtini Cain was the lone top-30 finisher for the team, ending tied for 28th with a 54-hole score of 241. Freshman standout Lindsay Gahm finished with the best score in the final round for the Hoosiers, shooting a 10-over par 82, landing her in 35th place with a score of 243 (76-85-82).The Hoosiers will see much of the same field in the Big Ten Championships this week, as eight other Big Ten teams competed at Ohio State last weekend, with just Purdue and Michigan absent. IU already saw the course earlier this season when it played in the Lady Northern Invitational, where the team finished sixth out of the 12-team field with three Hoosiers in the top 15.Four of IU’s six competing golfers this weekend will be seeing their first Big Ten Championship action, including freshmen Gahm and Sophie Hayashi, sophomore Rosie Davies and junior Cain.Last year, IU finished fifth in the 2010 Big Ten Championships in Madison, Wis., and sophomore Jacqueline Yanch was the team’s top finisher, tied for 14th as a freshman.“Golf is a very challenging sport,” IU coach Clint Wallman said on the team’s website. “The best thing a golfer can do is have a very short memory, and we’re treating last weekend as last weekend. It was the end of our regular season, and we’re now into our championship season — everyone is zero and zero — and it’s a chance for us to start fresh.”
(04/18/11 2:28am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Unusually high scores seemed to be the trend at the Lady Buckeye Spring Invite, where the IU women’s golf team played its final regular season tournament before starting the postseason with the Big Ten Championships next week. Joined by eight other Big Ten schools, the Hoosiers finished 10th, 64 shots behind tournament winner Michigan State.The team consistently sat in 10th through all three rounds, shooting 322 in each of the first two rounds before closing the tournament with a final round 338. Junior Kristtini Cain led the team individually, finishing tied for 28th with a 241 and was the only player to shoot in the 70s twice.Freshman Lindsay Gahm finished in 35th, two shots back from Cain after shooting a 76 in the first round. She then stumbled in the final two rounds, shooting an 85 and an 82. Sophomores Jacqueline Yanch and Kate Coons followed, finishing 54th and 63rd respectively.“I think we’re really close, and we all just need to play our own games because we’re all good enough to win the tournament,” Gahm said. “I think we all just need to come together and play well on the same days and see if we can find a win.”
(04/18/11 2:25am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After sitting in third for most of the tournament, with just holes to go, the IU men’s golf team fell to finish fifth in the Illini Spring Classic on Sunday after two of its top players, juniors David Erdy and Chase Wright, both made double-bogeys on hole 17 of the final round.The team finished with a 36-hole total of 601 after thunderstorms Saturday forced the tournament to be shortened to just two rounds. After a final round 299, the Hoosiers finished just one stroke back from a tie for third with Northwestern and Illinois State.Freshman David Mills was the top finisher for IU in the tournament, finishing tied for 13th after two rounds of 74 on the par-72 course. Mills also struggled to finish, bogeying his final hole of the tournament. Wright (77-72) and Erdy (76-76) finished tied for 18th and 31st, respectively. Sophomores Brant Peaper (75-78) and Corey Ziedonis (82-77) followed, tied for 38th and 61st.The team’s finish at the Stone Creek Golf Club marks the team’s final regular season tournament. The Hoosiers begin their postseason run April 29 when they travel to West Lafayette to play the Kampen Golf Course for the Big Ten Championships.“We need to just take everything one step at a time,” coach Mike Mayer said. “The Big Ten is really wide open, and if we can get everyone firing on all cylinders, I think we have a shot.”— Nathan Brown
(04/15/11 4:51am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After being host to its lone tournament of the year — the Indiana Invitational at Otter Creek Golf Course — and finishing fourth in the rain-shortened 36-hole tournament, the IU women’s golf team will travel to Columbus, Ohio to play the Scarlet Course in the Lady Buckeye Invitational on Saturday and Sunday.After rain delays virtually canceled play April 4 during the team’s first day of its home tournament, the tournament was shortened to just 36 holes, much of which was played the following day. The team posted rounds of 319 and 303 to finish with 622 for the tournament, 29 shots back from first-place Louisville. Freshman Lindsay Gahm finished first for the team, posting rounds of 76 and 77 to finish tied for eighth with 153.This weekend’s tournament will serve as a good preview for the Big Ten Championships, with eight Big Ten teams joining the Hoosiers, including No. 18 Michigan State, along with No. 17 Kent State, according to the April 12 NCAA coaches rankings.The six-count-four tournament will begin Saturday where the teams will play 36 holes, starting with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start. Sunday’s 18 holes, also a shogun start, will begin at 8:30 a.m. as well.
(04/15/11 4:35am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After the team won its third-straight adidas Hoosier Invitational at their home course, the IU Golf Course, Sunday by 15 strokes and placing four players in the top 10, the IU men’s golf team will travel to Urbana, Ill. for the Illini Spring Classic at Stone Creek Golf Club.The team’s lone home tournament of the season, which included several Indiana schools - including an IU “B” team – saw both IU teams at the top of the leader board after Saturday’s play, with the “A” team sitting at five-under par in first place and the “B” team just two shots behind. After the conclusion of Sunday’s play, the “A” team fought off their teammates, finishing 15 shots ahead of second-place Cleveland State. Junior David Erdy, who finished in second place for individuals, just one shot back from the top medalist, received Big Ten Golfer of the Week honors for his play in the tournament.This weekend’s tournament will serve as a preview of the Big Ten Championships which will be in two weeks in West Lafayette, Ind. with eight other Big Ten schools in the 13-team field, including No. 12 Illinois and No. 22 Ohio State, according to the Golfweek-Sagarin rankings.The team will begin their 36-hole play Saturday with an 8 a.m. shotgun start on the par-72 course. Sunday’s 18 holes will also begin at 8 a.m.“We have one more tune-up before the Big Ten’s and have some preparation time,” coach Mike Mayer said. “But we need to take care of the little things better; I think in the big picture we do well, but we’ve had some three-putts that are pretty uncalled for. It’s not the big things – we’re not going to his the ball any farther or straighter – but if we can take care of opportunities when they present themselves, we’ll be good.”
(04/11/11 3:59am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>As players from most every other team huddled around a small, not even 20-inch television inside the pro shop watching the Masters, the IU men’s golf team was down the hill, gazing at the leader board and its third-straight adidas Hoosier Invitational title Sunday at the IU Golf Course.After the first round Saturday, where thunderstorms delayed much of the play until late in the afternoon, both the men’s “A” and “B” teams stood atop the leader board.The “A” team was led by junior David Erdy with a three-under 68, just two shots ahead of the teams’ cumulative five-under par (279).Sophomore Michael McGee joined Erdy in a tie for third with a 68, his career-low round as a Hoosier.On Sunday the teams went back out onto the course at 8:15 a.m. with more than one round to play — but a lot more than one and a half rounds of golf were on the Hoosiers’ minds. Junior Chase Wright won this tournament last year by seven shots and stood three shots back going into the second round.Erdy had finished tied for second two years in a row and was looking to win it this year with Wright still in contention.Wright and Erdy, though, were both unable to make strong enough runs in the afternoon heat.Ball State’s Tyler Merkel, who entered Sunday’s final round tied for 15th, was one of only six players in the field to break par in the final round.He edged out Erdy and Cleveland State’s Kent Monas, who both tied for second, by a single stroke, to take the individual medalist honors.Wright, who finished tied for fourth at 212 with a final round 73, said he felt he put too much stress on himself to defend his title.“I really just let it get to me a little too much,” Wright said. “Honestly, I really didn’t know where I stood through that whole last round, but it’s tough to play at home in front of your family and on a course you’re familiar with. It just adds even more pressure because you know how well you can play, and I just let it get to me.”IU coach Mike Mayer, who handed out the final awards after all the scores were posted, said he was a little disappointed that he couldn’t give the medalist trophy to one of his 10 participating players, but as the scores have shown the past three years, his team is tough to beat on a course it practices on weekly.“Every tournament is tough to win, and I really felt like we played two solid rounds of golf,” Mayer said. “I was really looking for us to have guys in both first and second, but in the end, we’re just a really hard team to beat on this golf course, no matter who we’re playing.”
(04/08/11 2:57am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After the team’s seventh-place finish at the Border Olympics in Laredo, Texas, its worst tournament finish since mid-September, the IU men’s golf team will prepare to host its only tournament of the year, the adidas Hoosier Invitational, at the IU Golf Course on Saturday and Sunday against a 15-team field.At the Border Olympics, the team finished 24 strokes behind tournament winner Arkansas with a 54-hole team total of 856. Junior Chase Wright was the lone IU player to finish in the top 20, finishing tied for eighth with 210 (74-67-69). After the seventh-place finish, the team dropped six places in the Golfweek-Sagarin rankings, from 28th to 34th, according to the April 3 rankings.This weekend, Wright and the rest of the team will attempt to defend their respective titles from last year’s Hoosier Invitational. Last year, the team won by an impressive 36 strokes in the 54-hole event for the second-straight year. Wright earned his first medal after shooting a 204 and edging out his teammate, junior David Erdy, by seven strokes.The team will begin defending its title Saturday with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start and will play two rounds of the 54-hole tournament. The third round will begin Sunday with a 9 a.m. shotgun start.“We didn’t play our best golf at Laredo, but we also beat several teams in a really strong field,” coach Mike Mayer said. “But here in the adidas Hoosier Invitational, we expect to win. We’re the two-time defending champions, and if we play our best golf, we will win this tournament.”
(04/06/11 3:19am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Though they left the course midway through their first round Monday after rain delays halted play and shortened the 54-hole tournament and then finished the round Tuesday, struggles from the day before seemed to linger on for the IU women’s golf team members.They left the Indiana Invitational, a tournament they won just a year earlier, on Monday one shot behind their B-team. After first-round play was finished Tuesday, the team sat in 10th out of a 15-team field, 21 shots behind eventual tournament winner, Louisville.And though Louisville turned the tournament into a race for second, finishing Tuesday as 22-shot winners with a 36-hole team score of 593, IU was able to crawl its way back into the pack, finishing fourth, and just seven shots back from second-place Eastern Michigan.Sophomore Kate Coons led the charge for IU. After shooting 83 in the wet first round, Coons battled back and fired a one-over par 73 in the second round. Coons finished tied for 19th with a two-round total of 156.IU’s No. 1 player, freshman Lindsay Gahm, finished first overall for the team in the tournament, following her first-round 76 with a 77 late Tuesday to finish tied for eighth with 153.Sophomore Jackie Yanch finished tied with Coons for 19th after carding two 78s for the tournament. Junior Kristtini Cain followed, just one stroke back, after shooting a second-round 75. The IU B-team, which coach Clint Wallman chose to play in order to help him decide on a post-season roster, finished tied for ninth. Senior Cecilia Orevik finished first for the second squad in a tie for 14th with 155, just two shots back of the first team’s Gahm.After the team’s lone home tournament of the year, Wallman and his squad will begin to prepare for their final regular season tournament of the year, the Lady Buckeye Invitational sponsored by Ohio State on April 16-17.
(04/05/11 2:36am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>On a day where teams were supposed to complete two rounds of golf in the two-day, 54-hole Indiana Invitational at Otter Creek Golf Course, high winds, heavy amounts of rain and thunder and lightning forced the IU women’s golf team and 14 other squads off the course for most of the day.Monday, shortly after the players began their first round with the 9 a.m. shotgun start, play was suspended at 10:45 a.m. due to inclement weather. Play didn’t resume until 3:45 p.m. but was then called off once again at 4:30 p.m.After only a few holes, both IU teams stand in the top-four for the tournament. The second roster IU coach Clint Wallman put into the field for the Invitational stands tied for first with Wisconsin at three over par.Both freshman Sophie Hayashi and sophomore Pamela Burneski lead the squad at even par, tied for second in the field.Wallman’s first five girls sit tied for third at four over par as a team after completing just 26 holes total. Sophomore Kate Coons currently leads the team at even par after just four holes. Freshman Lindsay Gahm and junior Kristtini Cain sit at one over par. Sophomore Jackie Yanch ended the day at two over par after eight holes finished, and senior Lauren Giesecke finished the day five-over after seven holes.No players finished more than eight of the expected 36 holes during the day, and therefore, the tournament was reformatted to only 36 holes. The players’ remaining first round and their second round will begin with a shotgun start Tuesday at 9 a.m.
(04/04/11 1:43am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After finishing 15th Saturday in the MountainView Invitational in Tucson, Ariz., the team’s worst finish of the season, the IU women’s golf team will try to rebound as it is host to its lone tournament of the season Monday and Tuesday, the Indiana Invitational, at Otter Creek Golf Course in Columbus, Ind.In Tucson, the team had just one round out of the 15 the girls completed that was under par. Sophomore Kate Coons shot a 3-under-par 69 in the final round to tie for 36th along with freshman Lindsay Gahm. Coons, Gahm and the rest of the team finished 50 strokes behind tournament winner Iowa State, which had a team-total of 857 in the 54-hole tournament.But coach Clint Wallman is confident that his team will bounce back on its home turf. Wallman will be playing two five-girl rosters in the tournament, as well as playing sophomore Kylee Wierks as an individual in the 13-team field to help him see who’s playing coming into the postseason. The team won the Indiana Invitational last year when it was at the IU Golf Course and finished sixth at Otter Creek in 2009.Wallman, though, said playing on a home course sometimes puts too much pressure on his players and that this may be one of their biggest obstacles.“The biggest thing that happens when you’re hosting your own invitational is placing too many expectations on yourself because it is a ‘home invitational,’ because you supposedly know the golf course,” Wallman said on the team’s website. “Our challenge is going to be just playing it as we would play any other tournament.”
(03/28/11 2:29am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After the IU women’s golf team left the course Friday in 15th place in the MountainView Invitational after two rounds at the MountainView Golf Course in Tucson, Ariz., the squad finished in the same spot Friday. The Hoosiers posted a final round score of 296 and 8-over par, after rounds of 300 and 311 Saturday.The Hoosiers (907) finished 50 shots back of tournament-winner Iowa State (857), which finished at seven-under par with four players in the top 20.IU sophomore Kate Coons and freshman Lindsay Gahm both led the team for the tournament, both tying for 36th. Coons had the best round of the tournament for IU, shooting a 69 in Saturday’s final round, the team’s only under-par round of the tournament. Coon’s 69 was her season-best round and tied for her career-low round as a Hoosier golfer.Gahm finished the tournament with a final-round 76, after rounds of 72 and 75 Friday, giving her a tournament-total of 223.“I felt like the girls did some really good things this weekend and showed a lot of effort,” IU coach Clint Wallman said. “Kate had a great round with her 69, but we just really didn’t have the consistency from top to bottom.”
(03/28/11 1:54am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU men’s golf team failed to move up the leaderboard in the second day of the Border Olympics at Laredo Country Club in Laredo, Texas, after finishing the first day in fifth place. The Hoosiers would finish in seventh with a team total of 856, 8-under par for the tournament.IU finished 24 strokes behind team champion Arkansas, who finished at 32-under par, edging out second-place Oklahoma by five strokes.Junior Chase Wright, after shooting 2-over in the tournament’s first round Friday, surged in the final two rounds en route to tie for eighth place, his fourth top-ten finish this season. Wright shot rounds of 67 and 69 in the final rounds for a total of 210, 13 shots back of the leader and 6-under par.Sophomore Brant Peaper was the only other Hoosier golfer to shoot under-par in the tournament’s final round, carding a team-best 68 in the final day. This strong final round pushed Peaper, who finished tied for 35th, 27 places up the leader board from Friday’s end after he shot a 77 and a 72 to finish tied for 62nd. Junior David Erdy finished the tournament tied for 21st with 214 after finishing Friday tied with Wright for the team lead at 3-under. Erdy carded a final round 73.“It was rough coming off the NIT with less than 24 hours in Bloomington before we left again for Texas,” IU coach Mike Mayer said. “Our guys really played mediocre and just weren’t quite clicking on all cylinders, but it’s great to be back home as we prepare to win the Indiana Invitational for the third-straight year.”
(03/25/11 3:38am)
In the past, the Hoosiers have seen success in the Mountain View Invitational, including winning the team title in 2008 and producing individual champions in 2007 (Elaine Harris) and 2008 (Lauren Harling).
(03/25/11 3:34am)
The No. 28-ranked IU squad, according to the latest Golfweek-Sagarin rankings, will compete in a 19-team field, including No. 18 Arkansas, No. 26 Oklahoma, No. 32 Liberty and No. 37 North Texas, according to the March 20 Golfweek rankings.
(03/23/11 2:48am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After a monthlong tournament layoff, the No. 30 IU men’s golf team traveled to Tucson, Ariz., to play in the National Invitational Tournament at the Omni Tucson National Golf Club on Monday and Tuesday in an attempt to extend its three stroke-play tournament winning streak.Unfortunately for IU, even with a strong final round of two-over 290, the team couldn’t continue the streak, ending the day where it began, tied for fourth place with a team total of 882.After playing the par 72 Catalina course in its first 18 holes Monday, IU, the highest-ranked team in the field according to Golfstat.com, stood in sixth place after shooting a 15-over team round of 303. Junior David Erdy and freshman David Mills each shot 74 in round one to lead the Hoosiers. Junior Chase Wright shot 77, and after coming off his win in the Wexford Plantation Intercollegiate in February, sophomore Brant Peaper finished last of the four scoring players for IU.But the team made up some ground in the second round on the par 70 Sonoran course. After 17 holes in the late round Monday, the Hoosiers were tied for fourth and stood at 10-over for the second round. After play was halted Monday night due to darkness with just a hole to play for each IU golfer, the team left the course just nine strokes behind current leaders Southern Methodist, No. 46 Tulsa and tournament host Arizona.Before its 8 a.m. shotgun start Tuesday, the team finished the second round with a nine-over 289, eight shots behind the trio tied at 16-over par.Yet, under-par final rounds by Erdy and Peaper on Tuesday still couldn’t make up enough ground to catch either SMU or Arizona, and Tulsa ran away with the title, posting a team total five-under 283 final round with three players a combined 10-under par.Erdy finished tied for eighth after his final round one-under 71, shooting a three-round total of 216 (74-71-71), marking his fifth top-10 finish of the season. Peaper finished with a final round 70, landing him tied for 17th with 221 (78-73-70). Peaper made just one bogey in his final round, along with three birdies. Mills followed, tied for 23rd (222) with a final round 74.Sophomore Kyle Perry’s final round 75 was the first of his to count toward the team score in the tournament, and Perry finished tied for 57th with 230 (79-76-75).
(03/21/11 4:17am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU women’s golf team posted its best finish of the year Wednesday, tieing for second in the Lumberjack Shootout at Wigwam golf course in Litchfield Park, Ariz. Senior Lauren Giesecke led the team with a career performance in her first tournament of the season.“I have mixed emotions,” IU coach Clint Wallman said on the team’s website. “We gave ourselves a chance and played well for the most part. We just didn’t capitalize on the opportunities we gave ourselves down the stretch. But I think it is a good thing because it gives us (an) idea of what we need to do and major areas we need to work on coming down the stretch.”Giesecke finished tied for seventh place, shooting a career-best 218 total for the tournament, including a career-low round of 71 Tuesday. Freshman Lindsay Gahm finished tied for 19th after she posted an even-par 72 after a tough second round where she shot 78.Junior Kristtini Cain (76-73-76) and sophomore Kate Coons (74-74-77) each finished just one stroke back of Gahm with 225 in a tie for 26th. Sophomore Jacqueline Yanch finished Wednesday with a 79 and a three-day total of 228 (76-71-79), putting her in a tie for 34th.The team will again travel to Arizona for its next tournament where it will compete in the Mountain View Invitational on Friday and Saturday in Tucson, Ariz.
(02/24/11 5:48am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After going into the final 18 holes of competition Tuesday in the Central District Invitational in 13th place, the IU women’s golf team held suit and defended its position, finishing 13th with a final round score of 299, the team’s best single-round total this spring.The team began the tournament Monday at the River Wilderness Country Club in Parrish, Fla., playing two 18-hole rounds the first day. IU coach Clint Wallman said he saw promise in the team’s first round of play when it shot 304, but then it made some mistakes and faltered into an afternoon round of 312.“It was an up-and-down day,” Wallman said in a press release. “I thought they did good job in the first round to battle back after a bad start. They were able to grind out a decent round. I felt good heading into the second round, but we didn’t execute and made compound errors.”No. 1 golfer Lindsay Gahm led the second-day charge, moving up the board from 22nd to tie for 15th, posting two-under 70 in the final round. The freshman ended Monday’s play with two rounds of 75 but improved her final round to continue her streak of five top-25 finishes this season.Junior Kristtini Cain followed Gahm in a tie for 41st after she improved upon her Monday rounds of 76 and 79. Cain shot a 1-over 73 the final round for a total of 228.Senior Cecilia Orevik finished four strokes back in a tie for 55th with a final score of 232 (76-77-79). The team now has three weeks off from competition before it travels to Flagstaff, Ariz., for the Lumberjack Shootout.
(02/23/11 9:12pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After going into the final 18 holes of competition Tuesday in the Central District Invitational in 13th place, the IU women’s golf team held suit and defended its position, finishing 13th with a final round score of 299, the team’s best single-round total this spring.The team began the tournament Monday at the River Wilderness Country Club in Parrish, Fla., playing two 18-hole rounds the first day. IU coach Clint Wallman said he saw promise in the team’s first round of play when it shot 304, but then it made some mistakes and faltered into an afternoon round of 312.“It was an up-and-down day,” Wallman said in a press release. “I thought they did good job in the first round to battle back after a bad start. They were able to grind out a decent round. I felt good heading into the second round, but we didn’t execute and made compound errors.”No. 1 golfer Lindsay Gahm led the second-day charge, moving up the board from 22nd to tie for 15th, posting two-under 70 in the final round. The freshman ended Monday’s play with two rounds of 75 but improved her final round to continue her streak of five top-25 finishes this season.Junior Kristtini Cain followed Gahm in a tie for 41st after she improved upon her Monday rounds of 76 and 79. Cain shot a 1-over 73 the final round for a total of 228.Senior Cecilia Orevik finished four strokes back in a tie for 55th with a final score of 232 (76-77-79). The team now has three weeks off from competition before it travels to Flagstaff, Ariz., for the Lumberjack Shootout.
(02/23/11 4:19am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU men’s golf team left Hilton Head, S.C., and the Wexford Plantation Golf Course on Tuesday with more hardware than the team has won all season. Led by sophomore Brant Peaper, the team ended with a three-round total of 877, as the Hoosiers won by 12 shots against runner-up William & Mary.The team managed to continue its streak of three stroke-play tournament wins, and Peaper took home medalist honors as well, the first Hoosier to do so this year.IU entered the final round Tuesday just two strokes behind then-tournament leader William & Mary (587). The Hoosiers started off strong Monday with a team total of 289 in the first 18 holes but failed to keep their momentum going in the afternoon play, shooting 300 as a team and 589 for the day.“We got off to a really good start yesterday and had a little bit of a letdown in the afternoon, but it’s great to come out today and get the job done,” IU coach Mike Mayer said in a press release.But every Hoosier finished strong in the final round Tuesday, posting all five individual scores under 75, led by Peaper, who shot a 2-under 70 in his final round to take the individual title. He finished the tournament with 13 birdies, a tournament high, en route to a seven-shot victory which was his first individual title as a Hoosier.Junior Chase Wright followed Peaper, tying for fourth with a final round of 73 and a three-round total of 221. Junior David Erdy also cracked the top 10, finishing with an even-par round of 72 to end up in eighth place with 223.Freshman David Mills rebounded after a second round-80 to finish with a 73 Tuesday to tie him for 14th. The No. 34 Hoosiers, according to Golfstat.com, will now take a month off from competition until the National Invitational Tournament in Tucson, Ariz, March 21-22.