Paul Earns HM All-America Honors, Finishes 56th At BMW Int'l Open
June 29, 2016 | Men's Golf
Jeremy Paul celebrated his All-America honor by finishing 56th in the BMW Int'l Open, a European Tour event.
BOULDER — University of Colorado senior-to-be Jeremy Paul was named to the PING-Golf Coaches Association of America's All-America team as an honorable mention selection, capping quite a week for the Buffs' top player.
Paul made Friday's cut in the BMW International Open in Pulheim, Germany, eventually finishing in a tie for 56th place with a 72-70-74-74—290 scorecard, which was two over par on the 7,226-yard, par-72 Golf Club Gut Larchenhof layout. He defeated 13 professionals, including six in the European top 100, while tying three others. Henrik Stenson won the event with a 17-under par score of 271.
Paul was only eight strokes out of a top 20 finish, and recorded 16 birdies, 16 bogeys and one double with the rest all pars in winning low amateur honors; the only other amateur in the field was his twin brother Yannik, who shot a 73-78—151 but missed the cut by seven shots. The pair thus competed against 154 professionals, 66 in the top 100 in Europe (and 36 in the top 60).
The twins, ranked as the two best German amateurs in the world through June 19 (Jeremy at No. 116 amateur, Yannik at No. 125), became the first twins to ever play in a European Tour event.
Jeremy became the first Buff to make an All-America team since 2009, when both Derek Tolanand Patrick Grady, now CU's assistant coach, also earned honorable mention accolades. He is the 20th player in CU's golfing history to make an All-America squad. This year's team was comprised of 61 performers, 10 each on the first-, second- and third-teams and the remaining players earning honorable mention status.
"Congratulations to Jeremy on a fantastic season," CU head coach Roy Edwards said. "He keeps working hard to improve and this year was the result of that. He has established himself as an elite college player and I know he is motivated to be even better."
Paul set a school record this past season for stroke average with a 70.66 mark, and is on pace to set the career mark, as he owns a 71.75 norm; Yannik, who is returning to the team after spending last year in the twins' native Germany, averaged 72.87 over the course of his freshman and sophomore years and owns the third best career average at present.
See the final leaderboard here:http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2016/tournamentid=2016048/leaderboard/index.html.
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