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GOLFERS TIE FOR FOURTH IN OWN STEVINSON INVITE
March 30, 2004 | Men's Golf
Complete Results
STEVINSON, Calif. ? The University of Colorado men's golf team got just what the coaches ordered for weather here Tuesday, but the Buffaloes couldn't take advantage and wound up tying for fourth place in the 6th Annual CU-Stevinson Ranch Invitational.
No. 27 Kansas won for the fifth time in six tries in the CU-sponsored event, as the Jayhawks won with a tournament record 858 score, or 6-under par, edging in-state rival and No. 31 Kansas State by three shots. Iowa State grabbed third with an 865 score, while the Buffs and Wichita State tied for fourth with 5-over par 869 totals.
The Buffs, up five spots to No. 38 in the latest GolfStat rankings released Tuesday (and up seven places to No. 34 in Golfweek), defeated three District 5 rivals here, while losing to three and tying one. The results in this meet factor in greatly come seeding time for May's NCAA Championships.
Colorado came into the final round trailing first-day leader KU by 13 strokes, after the 7,191-yard, par-72 Stevinson Ranch Golf Club course layout played its “easiest” in the six years of the meet due to pristine weather conditions. But with temperatures some 20 degrees cooler in the 50s combined with winds that at times gusted up to 25 and 30 miles per hour, the conditions were ripe for Colorado to make a comeback in the kind of weather it has thrived in.
While the Buffs responded with what would be the second lowest round of the day, it didn't shave nearly enough strokes off the lead. And with Wichita State scoring the best, a 2-over 290, the Shockers were able to rally and tie the Buffaloes for fourth.
Iowa State sophomore Tyler Swanson, tied for the lead entering the final round, shot a 1-under 71 to claim medalist honors with a 10-under 206 total, establishing a new tournament record in the process. The previous bests were 8-under 208 totals recorded by CU's Ben Portie in 2002 and Pacific's Matt Hansen last year. Swanson's four-stroke win is second only to Hansen's six-shot victory a year ago.
Sophomore Edward McGlasson led the Buffaloes, as he battled the elements to a 2-over 74, finishing with a 2-under 214 total, his second tournament under par this season. The other occasion, at Stanford's The Nelson last October, was the other time he also led the team this year, having now done it twice in his native California.
“I started off with a few mistakes and battled back, and just really hung in there,” McGlasson said. “I got it up and down a few times, but never really got anything going. I had four birdies and an eagle, but I couldn't find my rhythm and the course always seemed to come back and slap me in the face after all of those. It played really tough, so I just wanted to hang in there for the team.”
“As a whole, we played solid, just didn't play great. We didn't have the one or two individuals get really hot that we needed to win,” said CU head coach Mark Simpson. “The conditions we had today are what we needed to win. Kansas shot 296, and if we shot 282, we win. Like I said yesterday, we needed to shoot our best round of the year to be in position win, and if Kansas shot around 300, we would have had to be four, five, six under, and that's exactly how it played out. In conditions like this, we needed a couple of scores in the 60s, a 70 and 72, and we would have been where we needed to be. But I could see early that it wasn't going to happen.”
Colorado was the only team to place all of its players in the top 30, while Wichita State was the only other to have all finish in the top 40, quite an achievement considering the blustery conditions. But Kansas countered by have three in the top 11, with K-State having a trio in the top 17 and Iowa State two in the top 10, including the impressive performance by Swanson.
Senior captain Kane Webber and sophomore Blake Moore both shot 1-over 217 for 54 holes, tying for 13th overall, as Moore had CU's best round of the day of the five that counted toward the team score, an even-par 72.
CU's other senior captain, Jeff Hanson, played as an individual, as he has been working on some putting technique changes along with nursing a slight wrist injury. His results thus did not count towards CU's overall team score, but he put up a final round 71 to tie for 17th with a 218 total. Two other Buff sophomores, Kenny Coakley and Derek O'Neill, tied for 29th with 222 totals.
“Coming back from this trip is certainly successful, with a win (at last week's Western Intercollegiate) and a fourth place finish, but we certainly have some work to do in the district to get seeded where we want to be for the national championships,” Simpson added. “We have two big tournaments left to prove our worth heading into the NCAA's.”
The Buffaloes resume action in two weeks, traveling to West Lafayette, Ind., to take part in the Purdue Boilermaker Invitational on April 10-11, which is also the site of May's NCAA Central Regional, CU's likely destination if it qualifies for the NCAA Championships.
SECOND DAY NOTES: With temperatures about 20 degrees cooler and winds steadily blowing between 10 and 20 miles per hour, with gusts up to 30, the 75 golfers in the field were hard pressed to match the 39 subpar rounds (and 12 at even par) recorded on Monday; only eight subpar rounds and five par efforts were scored Tuesday" The low round of the day was a 5-under 67 scored by Wichita State's Cameron Bishop, on of just two scores in the 60s" Kansas' winning score of 858 was the lowest in tournament history, besting its mark of 861 in 2002; with Kansas State also under par, it brings the total to just four teams breaking par (864) out of the 90 team scores in the six-year history of the meet" Over half of the field of 75 golfers was comprised of underclassmen, as 20 freshmen and 20 sophomores competed here, along with 15 juniors and 20 seniors.
Buffalo Individual Scores
9. Edward McGlasson...... 69-71-74?214
T13. Kane Webber........... 70-73-74?217
T13. Blake Moore........... 73-72-72?217
T17. *Jeff Hanson.......... 73-74-71?218
T29. Kenny Coakley......... 74-73-75?222
T29. Derek O'Neill......... 74-74-74?222
(*?played as an individual; score did not count toward team total.)
Team Scores
1. Kansas............... 282-280-296?858
2. Kansas State......... 286-281-294?861
3. Iowa State........... 284-283-298?865
4. COLORADO............. 286-289-294?869
4. Wichita State........ 287-292-290?869
6. CSU-Stanislaus....... 293-289-298?880
7. Missouri............. 295-288-302?885
8. San Jose State....... 292-291-307?890
8. UC-Irvine............ 298-296-296?890
10. Washington State..... 302-291-299?892
11. Drake................ 297-287-310?894
12. Long Beach State..... 288-293-314?895
13. Illinois State....... 302-291-305?898
13. Pacific.............. 301-291-306?898
Individual Results
1 Tyler Swanson Iowa State 68-67-71--206
2 Tyler Hall Kansas 72-67-71--210
Ben Kern Kansas St. 69-70-71--210
4 Gary Woodland Kansas 72-69-70--211
5 Brian Anderson Ill. St. 69-70-73--212
Wes Pantling Drake 67-68-77--212
7 David Jenkins Missouri 71-70-72--213
Aaron Watkins Kansas St. 71-69-73--213
9 Edward McGlasson Colorado 69-71-74--214
10 Jeremy Lyons Iowa State 68-73-74--215
11 Ryan Camp Wash. St. 72-71-73--216
Andrew Price Kansas 67-71-78--216
13 Kane Webber Colorado 70-73-74--217
Blake Moore Colorado 73-72-72--217
Ty Cline Wichita St 73-71-73--217
Cameron Bishop Wichita St 75-75-67--217
17 Jeff King CSUStanis 73-73-72--218
*Jeff Hanson Colorado 73-74-71--218
*Tim Moody Kansas St. 71-73-74--218
20 Ryan Thornberry CSUStanis 71-76-72--219
Matt Kern Pacific 75-69-75--219
Bryant Reyes San Jose St 73-70-76--219
23 Jeremy Keller Long Beach 75-73-72--220
Keith Ornales CSUStanis 73-69-78--220
25 Vinnie Poncino UC-Irvine 76-76-69--221
John May Wichita St 72-76-73--221
Ben Scott Missouri 73-72-76--221
Ryne Rindfleisch UC-Irvine 74-74-73--221
29 Judd Easterling Wichita St 72-73-77--222
Jeff Berkshire Drake 75-70-77--222
Derek O'Neill Colorado 74-74-74--222
Tyler Docking Kansas 71-73-78--222
Kenny Coakley Colorado 74-73-75--222
34 Billy Moon CSUStanis 76-71-76--223
Jordan Madison Wash. St. 75-70-78--223
Matt VanCleave Kansas St. 83-67-73--223
37 Paul Huddle Iowa State 75-69-80--224
Jesse Schulte Wichita St 70-73-81--224
39 Troy McKinley Pacific 73-74-78--225
Kevin Ward Kansas 72-76-77--225
Josh Persons Kansas St. 72-75-78--225
Neno Boonyaplanun UC-Irvine 75-73-77--225
Justin Madison San Jose St 75-71-79--225
Alejandro Prieto San Jose St 72-75-78--225
*Cory Cooper Wichita St 78-76-71--225
46 Michael Radek Missouri 75-73-78--226
Torey Edwards Long Beach 67-80-79--226
Jay Choe UC-Irvine 73-73-80--226
Kevin Chen Wash. St. 77-75-74--226
Chris Wells Pacific 76-72-78--226
Matt Maskel Ill. St. 82-71-73--226
Drew Dalziel Iowa State 73-74-79--226
53 Kane Hanson Drake 76-74-77--227
A.J. Elgert Kansas St. 74-76-77--227
John Kelly Missouri 78-73-76--227
56 Todd Saukkola Long Beach 71-74-84--229
Neal Valera San Jose St 72-75-82--229
58 Brett Lederer Long Beach 76-75-79--230
*Keth Malone Drake 75-74-81--230
60 Chad Carlson Wash. St. 81-75-75--231
Andrew Bostrom Pacific 77-79-75--231
Ryan Wood Long Beach 75-71-85--231
63 Kyle Vasel Ill. St. 74-73-85--232
64 Derek Uyesaka UC-Irvine 79-77-77--233
65 Matt Brooks Drake 79-75-80--234
Curtis Foster Iowa State 85-75-74--234
67 Logan Toskey Wash. St. 78-80-77--235
68 Justin Bliss Missouri 76-73-87--236
Kris Wildenradt Ill. St. 82-78-76--236
70 Denny Bull Ill. St. 77-77-83--237
71 Miles Kirkpatrick Pacific 83-76-79--238
72 Bobby Powers San Jose St 83-82-74--239
A.J. Shiffert CSUStanis 77-82-80--239
74 Sam Huff Drake 80-81-79--240
75 *Pete Krsnich Kansas 86-83-78--247
(*?denotes competed as an individual; scores thus did not count toward team total.)
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