Men's Golf Finishes Fifth at Season Opening Rod Myers Invitational

Sunday, September 12

Durham, N.C.

All Day

University of North Florida

Rod Myers Invitational

Nick Gabrelcik watches ball after swinging his driver

Men's Golf Finishes Fifth at Season Opening Rod Myers Invitational

9/12/2021 4:49:00 PM | Men's Golf

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By: North Florida Athletics

FIRST TEE — The North Florida men's golf team earned a fifth-place finish in the season opening Rod Myers Invitational hosted by Duke led by a pair of Top 10 individual performances from Nick Gabrelcik and Grant Sutliff.

COURSE REPORT
- Duke University Golf Club (Durham, N.C.)
- Par 72 | 7,154 yards
- Sunday, Sept. 12 | 18 holes
- RESULTS: GolfStat Live Stats link

SCORECARD (Osprey lineup)
5 - North Florida | 6-under 858 (287-281-290)
T8 Grant Sutliff | 4-under 212 (69-69-74)
T8 Nick Gabrelcik | 4-under 212 (70-71-71)
T27 Jason Duff | 3-over 219 (72-74-73)
T29 Robbie Higgins | 4-over 220 (76-68-76)
T34 Davis Lee | 5-over 221 (76-73-72)

TEAM STANDINGS: 14 Teams (Golfstat Top 50 Rankings / Final 2020-21)
#8 North Carolina (837), #20 NC State (840), Duke (556), UNC Greensboro (857), #21 North Florida (858), Virginia Tech (862), #42 Charlotte (872), Penn State (877), UNC Wilmington (888), Loyola MD (891), East Carolina (893), Nebraska (897), Princeton (906), Elon (916)

ROUND REFLECTIONS
- Continuing on his freshman season performances, sophomore Nick Gabrelick picked right back up leading the Ospreys with his third consecutive under-par score | Gabrelick finished T8th after carding a 1-under 71 in Sunday's final round which included birdies on 3 of his final 10 holes
- Senior Grant Sutliff matched Gabrelick's T8th finish following his final round 2-over 74 | Round was highlighted by an eagle on the par 5, 9th hole
- Freshman Jason Duff earned a T27th finish in his collegiate debut capped by a final round 1-over 73
- Junior Davis Lee posted the squad's second best final round, carding an even-par 72 to finish T34th, while sophomore Robbie Higgins was T29th after a 76 to round out the Osprey lineup
- As a team, UNF shot a final round 2-over 290 on Sunday
- North Florida finished with 181 pars, ranking second in the field | Gabrelcik topped the filed with 41 pars followed closely by Robbie Higgins with 40 to rank second
- The Ospreys tallied 43 birdies paced by 11 from Sutliff

CLUBHOUSE CHATTER
"We made too many mistakes to have a good week. Nick (Gabrelcik) and Grant (Sutliff) played okay but the mistakes by the others are not acceptable if we want to be a good team."
- Head Coach Scott Schroeder

UP NEXT
North Florida will have a few weeks off from competition before returning to the links at the Windon Memorial Classic on Sept. 27-28 in Lake Forest, Ill.