Men's Golf Sweeps Honors at Furman Intercollegiate

Sunday, March 25

Greenville, S.C. (Furman University GC)

9:30 a.m.

University of North Florida

Furman Intercollegiate

3/25/2018 5:39:00 PM | Men's Golf

By: North Florida Athletics

EVENT: Furman Intercollegiate
DATE: Sunday, Mar. 25
LOCATION: Furman University Golf Course (Greenville, S.C.)
COURSE INFO: Par 72 / 7,031 yards
UNF RESULT: 1st of 21 teams
TOP OSPREY: Philip Knowles (1st | 137)
Final Results (pdf)
Live Scoring: Golfstat

The Leaderboard: The No. 28-ranked North Florida men's golf team dominated the field at the Furman Intercollegiate, winning the tournament by 18 strokes while also boasting the top two individual finishers in juniors Philip Knowles and Andrew Alligood.

FIRST TEE
- Philip Knowles collected the second medalist title of his career, finishing with tournament total 9-under 207 after firing a final round 70 (-2)
- Andrew Alligood climbed into the runner-up spot at 6-under 210 following his final round 4-under 68
- Sophomore Michael Mattiace carded a final round 73 en route to his T6 showing at 3-under 213
- Travis Trace also posted a final round 73 to finish T42 (223) and freshman Michael Saccente rounded out the Osprey lineup with a 77 to finsh T48 (224)
- Playing as an individual, Jack Comstock earned a T22 (219) highlighted by his career best 68 (-4) in the final round
- North Florida tallied a final round 284, the best of the day, to notch a 54-hole total of 17-under 847

TEAM SCOREBOARD (# - Golfstat Top 50 rankings)
#28 North Florida (847), West Virginia (865), Virginia Tech (867), #10 (D2) USC Aiken (875), Furman (875), Yale (879), James Madison (883), Gardner-Webb (884), Francis Marion (884), Akron (893), Wichita State (894), USC Upstate (896), Dartmouth (902), Winthrop (902), Harvard (903), Marshall (905), High Point (908), Charleston Southern (914), Presbyterian (916), Temple (924), Samford (930)

INSIDE THE SCORECARD
- Knowles netted his 15th under-par round of the season and 45th of his career
- Alligood collected his 10th under-par round of season (38th career) and recorded his 24th round in the 60s of his career
- Mattiace had career best tournament finish and total | Marked his first career Top 10
- Comstock notched his first career round in the 60s and had his second career Top 25 finish
- Ospreys were the only team to finish the tournament under-par
- UNF led the field in Par 3 (+1, 3.02 avg), Par 4 (+19, 4.13 avg) and Par 5 (-23, 4.62 avg) scoring for the weekend
- North Florida totalled 163 pars over the 54 holes Alligood finishing with 38 to lead the team
- The Ospreys posted at tournament high 57 birdies led by Knowles' event best 16 red-number holes
- UNF won their first team tournament title of the season, marking the 51st in program history (24th in D1 play)
- Knowles earned the program's 32nd medalist crown

UNF RESULTS

1	North Florida	278	285	284	847 (-17)
1	Philip Knowles	66	71	70	207 (-9)
2	Andrew Alligood	70	72	68	210 (-6)
T6	Michael Mattiace	69	71	73	213 (-3)
T22	Jack Comstock (IND)	79	72	68	219 (+3)
T42	Travis Trace	79	71	73	223 (+7)
T48	Michael Saccente	73	74	77	224 (+8)

QUOTEWORTHY:
"It was great to get our first win of the year. The guys got off to a great start today in some cold weather. They took control of the event and it is hopefully a sign of some good improvements we keep talking about. It was a nice win for Phil this week after playing poorly last week. It was also nice to see Andrew put good events back-to-back." -- Head coach Scott Schroeder

UP NEXT
North Florida will now take a couple weeks off before returning to tournament action on Apr. 7-8 in the Irish Creek Collegiate in Kannapolis, N.C.