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Three PBC Men’s Golf Teams in Top Four Following First Round of NCAA Regional
Story Links HOWIE-IN-THE-HILLS, FLA — Three Peach Belt Conference men’s golf teams are among the top four following the first round of the NCAA South/Southeast regional at Mission Inn Resort (par 72, 6,960 yards). Columbus State is in second place with North Georgia third and USC Aiken fourth. Florida Southern […]
HOWIE-IN-THE-HILLS, FLA — Three Peach Belt Conference men’s golf teams are among the top four following the first round of the NCAA South/Southeast regional at Mission Inn Resort (par 72, 6,960 yards). Columbus State is in second place with North Georgia third and USC Aiken fourth.
Florida Southern leads the event after shooting 8-under 280. Georgia Southwestern is tied for ninth with Flagler and Lander is in 13th. Round two will begin on Friday morning at 7:30am with round three on Saturday.
Flagler’s Joel Petersson and USC Aiken’s Erik Olin are both tied for second on the individual leaderboard at two-under 70. Petersson had five birdies on his round with only two bogeys, playing the back nine in bogey-free 35 (par 37). Olin had seven birdies in total and was also two under on the second nine.
Columbus State was led by a trio of players who each shot two-under 70. Pete Stansell had only two bogeys with four birdies and shot 35 on the back nine. Bernard Meyer had only one bogey with four birdies while Martin Gruendemann had five birdies on the day. Frederick Chappell rounded out the scoring for CSU with a 74 while Russell Makepeace had a 75.
North Georgia’s Ethan Day fired a two-under 70 while Colby Bennett and Jack Vajda were each one-under 71. Hughes Threlkeld shot one-over 73 with Hunter Smith one back at 74.
Olin was the only Pacer to finish under par. Mitchell McNeill shot even-par 72 while Nick Goellner and Oscar Abrahamsson were each one-over 73 and Karl Frisk two behind.
CSU is four strokes behind Florida Southern at four-under with North Georgia three under and USC Aiken one under.
At a minimum, the top three teams and the top two student-athletes not with a team from each regional will advance to the finals, May 19-23 at PGA National Resort in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The remaining eight team berths will be allocated based on the regions represented in the prior year’s head-to-head medal play portion of the championships, with the maximum number of teams from a given region capped at seven. The finals will be hosted by Palm Beach Atlantic and the Palm Beach County Sports Commission.