Solid Play Pushes Ospreys to Top of Leaderboard on Day One of Sea Best Invitational

Monday, February 1

Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.

8:00 a.m.

University of North Florida

Sea Best Invitational

Robbie Higgins watches his chip shot fly towards the green

Photo by: Todd Drexler

Solid Play Pushes Ospreys to Top of Leaderboard on Day One of Sea Best Invitational

2/1/2021 8:14:00 PM | Men's Golf

Golfstat Scoring

Quartet of UNF golfers among the Top 20

By: North Florida Athletics

EVENT: Sea Best Invitational
DATE: Monday, Feb. 1
LOCATION: TPC Sawgrass - Dye's Valley Course (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.)
COURSE INFO: Par 70 / 6,790 yards
UNF RESULT: 1st of 12 teams
TOP OSPREY: Nick Gabrelcik (T2 | 139)

Golfstat Scoring link

LEADERBOARD: Battling gusty winds, cold temperatures and a talented field, the North Florida men's golf team posted the low score in both rounds played Monday at the Sea Best Invitational and sit atop the leaderboard with a 13 shot lead.

FIRST TEE
- Freshman Nick Gabrelcik, the reigning ASUN Player of the Week, continued the strong start to his collegiate career, carding rounds of 66-73 to finish the opening day T2 at 1-under 139
- Fellow freshman Robbie Higgins is T8 after opening with his low collegiate round 69 followed by a 74 for a 36-hole total of 143
- Junior Cody Carroll ended the day T13 (146) with rounds of 75-71 while fifth-year senior Nick Infanti is T18 (147) after rounds of 74-73
- Sophomore Davis Lee rounded out the Osprey lineup at T45 (153), shooting 71-82
- Junior Grant Sutliff posted 75-77 (152), ranking T37 playing as an individual
- Ospreys fired an even-par 280 in the morning session followed by a tourney best second round 291 for a two-round total of 571

TEAM SCOREBOARD (# Golfstat Top 50)
North Florida (571), Duke (584), Liberty (584), Charlotte (585), NC State (587), Jacksonville (588), College of Charleston (593), Campbell (594), FGCU (600), Lipscomb (614), Toledo (624), USC Upstate (629)

INSIDE THE SCORECARD
- Gabrelcik collected his third career round in the 60s with his opening 66
- Higgins carded his first collegiate round under par and round in the 60s
- Ospreys led the field in Par 4 scoring (4.24 avg) and were second on the Par 3s (3.05 avg)
- North Florida collected 106 pars | Gabrelcik led the way with 26 followed closely by 25 for Higgins
- UNF topped the field with 26 birdies | Cody Carroll paced the squad with 7 red-number holes
- NC State's Easton Paxton leads the medalist standings at 4-under 136

UNF RESULTS

1	North Florida	280	291	---	571 (+11)
T2	Nick Gabrelcik	66	73	--	139 (-1)
T8	Robbie Higgins	69	74	--	143 (+3)
T13	Cody Carroll	75	71	--	146 (+6)
T18	Nick Infanti	74	73	--	147 (+7)
T37	Grant Sutliff (IND)	75	77	--	152 (+12)
T45	Davis Lee	71	82	--	153 (+13)

COACH'S COMMENTS
"The entire day was a grind in that weather. The guys did a great job competing and battling all day. We now had to rest up and be ready to do it again tomorrow. It will be a fun challenge to try and finish it off."
-- Head coach Scott Schroeder

UP NEXT
North Florida closes out play in the Sea Best Invitational with a final round on Tuesday. UNF's threesomes will tee off from Hole 1 starting at 9:39 and 9:48 a.m.