USA COLLEGE GOLF TOURNAMENT NEWS

LOUISIANA-MONROE'S STRONG FINISH 

AT PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA

FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA-MONROE WEBSITE

The ULM men’s golf team  ended play with an impressive 8-under 280 in the final round of the Wyoming Cowboy Desert Intercollegiate, at the Classic Club, Palm Desert, California.
 “We had a great day out here today,” head coach Walt Williams said.
The Warhawks carded the second lowest score of the day in a 23-team field that featured a combined nine schools from the Big 12 and Pac 12 and included two top-25 ranked teams (No. 25 Iowa State and No. 19 Oregon).
ULM moved up another four spots to finish the tournament in 11th place; they finished ahead of Big 12 schools Texas Tech, Kansas and Kansas State and 37 strokes in front of fellow Sun Belt school UALR.
Mason Seaborn and Calum Hill both carded a 4-under 68, followed close behind by Velten Meyer (71), Charlie MacNeal (73) and Greg Smail (75).
A field of 128 players was headed - by five strokes - by Julien Brun (Texas Christian) with scores of 72, 66 and 65 for a 13-under-par total of 203 over a long course of 7,305yd, par 72.
“It was a great experience for our guys and we’re looking forward to a great season!” said Williams.

+There are three Scots on the Louisiana-Monroe men's roster - Calum Hill, pictured left, a freshman from Edinburgh (Merchiston Castle School), Charlie MacNeal, pictured below, a senior from Ayrshire, and Greg Smail, pictured right, a sophomore from Musselburgh). 

Louisiana-Monroe students' totals
Mason Seaborn - 74-72-68--214 (T25)
Calum Hill - 75-74-68--217 (T42)
Velten Meyer - 73-78-71--222 (T68)
Charlie MacNeal - 80-71-73--224 (T75)
Greg Smail - 72-79-75--226 (T87)

TEAM TOTALS
1 Oregon - 276-279-282--837 
2 Colorado - 272-284-284-840
T3 Idaho - 289-277-283--849
T3 TCU - 293-279-277--849
5 Oregon State - 283-283-289--855
6 Iowa State - 291-281-287--859
7 Santa Clara - 284-285-291--860
8 Loyola Marymount - 290-283-289--862
9 UT-Arlington - 284-290-290--864
10 Cal Poly - 293-287-285--865
11 ULM - 294-295-280--869
12 Texas Tech - 290-291-290--871
13 UC Santa Barbara - 290-290-297--877
T14 Kansas - 299-291-289--879
T14. Kansas State - 291-295-293--879
16 Denver - 298-293-289--880
17 Nebraska - 291-294-297--881
T18 Wyoming - 298-298-293--889
T18 UC Riverside - 300-293-296--889
20 Southern Utah - 301-296-295--892 
22 UALR - 299-297-310--906 
23 George Mason - 306-305-302--913

FARRER 4th IN NEVADA FIELD OF 100

Mitch Farrer from West Sussex, in his final year at Nova Southeastern University, finished joint fourth in a field of 100 players at the Las Vegas Desert Classic at the Paiute Golf Resort, Nevada.
Farrer, pictured, had rounds of 71-74 for a total of 145 over the par-72, 7,146yd course.
He finished three shots behind the winner by one, Jeremy Gomberg (Redlands) (69-73)

Redlands and West Florida tied for the team title on 585 - one shot ahead of Nova Southeastern - a very tight finish indeed at the head of a field of 18 teams.