No. 22/21 UNF Tied for 12th After First Round of NCAA Championships
6/1/2010 9:39:41 PM | Men's Golf
OOLTEWAH, Tenn. – The University of North Florida golf team is tied for 12th place after shooting a 4-over, 292 in the first round of the 2010 Division I NCAA Men's Golf Championships at The Honors Course in Ooltewah, Tenn. Sophomore Sean Dale and freshman Kevin Phelan are tied for 36th after shooting even par for the round.
UNF is nine strokes behind tournament leaders No. 4/1 Oklahoma State and No. 11/19 Florida State with 5-under, 283's in the round. No. 1/9 Oregon is in third with 4-under, 284 while No. 3/2 Texas A&M is fourth with a 3-under, 285. No. 16 Arizona State and No. 14 Clemson round out the top-5 after shooting 2-under, 286's in the round.
Dale and Phelan shot 72's on the round to lead the Ospreys. Senior J.C. Horne tallied a 1-over, 73 for the round and is tied for 52nd while sophomore Joe Byun had a 3-over, 75 to tie for 90th. Senior Jordan Gibb rounds out the scoring for the Ospreys, tying for 154th with an 11-over, 83.
“The team played real well today,” said head coach Scott Schroeder. “No one went low so it was four solid scores that led us. We are right in the mix now, so we just need to keep playing one shot at a time. It will be fun again tomorrow.”
The Ospreys tee off on hole 10 at 12:59 p.m. on Wednesday in the second round of action. All rounds can be followed on Golfstat.com. The second and final rounds of medal play will be available on webcasting on Wednesday and Thursday. Cameras will be posted on holes 16, 17 and 18 to capture the action on NCAA.com.
The championship consists of 54 holes of medal play followed by three rounds of match play. All 30 teams and six individuals will compete for 54 holes of medal play, 18 per day, to determine the individual medalist. The top eight teams then qualify for match play. The teams will be seeded by their order of finish in medal play and will square off in a single-elimination bracket, playing one round of match play each day to determine team champion, June 4-6.
UNF is ranked 22nd in the Golfstat Index and 21st in the Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings. Individually for the Ospreys, Dale is 13th in the Golfstat Index and 21st in the Golfweek/Sagarin standings while Phelan is 96th and 102nd, respectively.
