Ugh⌠we put up a +11 yesterday. 3rd worst score out of the 30 teams playing. One more day left to climb back into the top 15. Niners start teeing off at 3:00 EST today.
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Todayâs Observer article focused on UGA and GT. Only schools mentioned.
[QUOTE=LeftyNiner;175972]Todayâs Observer article focused on UGA and GT. Only schools mentioned.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, that was not good.
Here is a decent article. We are mentioned (UNC Charlotte) but it is primarily about the hometown team from that paperâs city.
"Wake Forest, the 16th seed in a 30-team field, was in survival mode yesterday at the second round of the NCAA Men's Golf Championships.The Deacons, the first-round leaders, fought through a cold, rainy day to remain in contention for the schoolâs fourth NCAA title.
Washington is leading after two rounds at 13 under par, and Wake Forest is tied for second with Arizona State, just three shots back.
Senior Kyle Reifers of the Deacons increased his first-round lead after shooting a 2 under 70. He led by one after Wednesdayâs 65 but is now 9 under for the tournament, three shots better than Zach Bixler (68) of Washington, Niklas Lemke (68) of Arizona State, Jonathan Moore (70) of Oklahoma State and Pablo Martin (72) of Oklahoma State.
Reifers has nine straight rounds of par or better, and with two more rounds to go, is trying to become the first Wake Forest player to win an NCAA title since Gary Hallberg in 1979.
âI just kind of made a lot of good saves with my putter,â said Reifers, who played the back nine first and carded birdies on Nos. 1, 3 and 8 on his second nine. âI kind of hacked it around and stayed in the ballgame.â
Reifers, whose only win in college came this fall, said that the Deacons struggled early in the day but on their final nine holes were a collective 5 under. That allowed them to stay close to the lead.
âWe just want to give ourselves a chance and are in striking distance,â Reifers said. âThatâs really all you can ask for.â
As far as the individual title is concerned, Reifers said: âI want to help out the team and the rest will take care of itself.â
Coach Jerry Haas said that after playing with an attitude of nothing to lose in the first round, his Deacons didnât play as loose yesterday.
âBut thatâs human nature. But what these guys did was they really gutted it out (yesterday),â Haas said. âWe struggled on our front side but got it together and I really admire them for sticking it out.â
Haas said that being just three shots back doesnât mean that much in college golf, but he also knows there are all good teams near the top."
Sean Moore of the Deacons, who put together his second straight 73, said that dealing with the rain late in the day was the biggest hurdle. There was a 45-minute rain delay that slowed play.
âIt rained so hard at one point it was raining sideways,â Moore said. âI was putting on No. 16 and had like a three-footer and there were puddles between my ball and the hole. Then they blew the horn (to stop play) for about an hour.â
Moore ended his day on a good note, however, when he birdied 18.
The Deacons, who are trying to win their first title since 1986, were the first-round leaders after firing a school-record 11-under 277. It was the best team score in school history in regards to the NCAA Championships.
While there are still 36 holes to go, Moore says that the Deaconsâ goal is to remain in contention heading into the last nine holes on Saturday.
âWeâre trying to stay in the present so you canât get caught up with what might happen,â Moore said.
Sophomore Webb Simpson, despite a double bogey on 14, shot even par and is at 2 under for the tournament. Chris McCartin struggled the most for the Deacons yesterday, shooting 76. He shot a 69 in the first round but yesterday bogeyed three of his last four holes.
Doug Manchester of the Deacons improved his position with a 74. Manchester shot a 76 in the first round.
North Carolina struggled again and is at 10 over after 36 holes, and is tied for 18th with UNC Charlotte. In yesterdayâs second round, however, Robert Riesen and Jonathan Jackson each shot 70 to lead the Tar Heels.
Duke shot 9 over 297 yesterday and is 11 over for the tournament (tied for 20th). None of the Blue Devils broke par yesterday with Ryan Blaum and Jake Grodzinsky each shooting 73.
N.C. State, behind Darren Blairâs 70, shot 284 and is tied for 12th place.
After todayâs round the field will be cut to the top 15 teams."
Holy smokes! Loyola Marymount is +36??? Am I reading that right? :scared:
So, for the 15 that make it to the final round, do they start from a clean slate or continue with the scores that they have posted so far? Is there any TV coverage for the final round?
The scores have not updated at all today⌠bad weather maybe?
I noticed our scores wre not updated, but it is just now time for us to start teeing off.
:unhappy: :ticked: :weep: Itâs a good thing Iâm not playing. Itâs painful to watch them slip down the standings after their wonderful opening round.
Finishing in the top 32 = higher than our mens basketball team has done in a LONG time
this is the article on the tournament from the winston-salem paper (the observer had nothing about us).
"Wake Forest, the 16th seed in a 30-team field, was in survival mode yesterday at the second round of the NCAA Men's Golf Championships.The Deacons, the first-round leaders, fought through a cold, rainy day to remain in contention for the schoolâs fourth NCAA title.
Washington is leading after two rounds at 13 under par, and Wake Forest is tied for second with Arizona State, just three shots back.
Senior Kyle Reifers of the Deacons increased his first-round lead after shooting a 2 under 70. He led by one after Wednesdayâs 65 but is now 9 under for the tournament, three shots better than Zach Bixler (68) of Washington, Niklas Lemke (68) of Arizona State, Jonathan Moore (70) of Oklahoma State and Pablo Martin (72) of Oklahoma State.
Reifers has nine straight rounds of par or better, and with two more rounds to go, is trying to become the first Wake Forest player to win an NCAA title since Gary Hallberg in 1979.
âI just kind of made a lot of good saves with my putter,â said Reifers, who played the back nine first and carded birdies on Nos. 1, 3 and 8 on his second nine. âI kind of hacked it around and stayed in the ballgame.â
Reifers, whose only win in college came this fall, said that the Deacons struggled early in the day but on their final nine holes were a collective 5 under. That allowed them to stay close to the lead.
âWe just want to give ourselves a chance and are in striking distance,â Reifers said. âThatâs really all you can ask for.â
As far as the individual title is concerned, Reifers said: âI want to help out the team and the rest will take care of itself.â
Coach Jerry Haas said that after playing with an attitude of nothing to lose in the first round, his Deacons didnât play as loose yesterday.
âBut thatâs human nature. But what these guys did was they really gutted it out (yesterday),â Haas said. âWe struggled on our front side but got it together and I really admire them for sticking it out.â
Haas said that being just three shots back doesnât mean that much in college golf, but he also knows there are all good teams near the top."
Sean Moore of the Deacons, who put together his second straight 73, said that dealing with the rain late in the day was the biggest hurdle. There was a 45-minute rain delay that slowed play.
âIt rained so hard at one point it was raining sideways,â Moore said. âI was putting on No. 16 and had like a three-footer and there were puddles between my ball and the hole. Then they blew the horn (to stop play) for about an hour.â
Moore ended his day on a good note, however, when he birdied 18.
The Deacons, who are trying to win their first title since 1986, were the first-round leaders after firing a school-record 11-under 277. It was the best team score in school history in regards to the NCAA Championships.
While there are still 36 holes to go, Moore says that the Deaconsâ goal is to remain in contention heading into the last nine holes on Saturday.
âWeâre trying to stay in the present so you canât get caught up with what might happen,â Moore said.
Sophomore Webb Simpson, despite a double bogey on 14, shot even par and is at 2 under for the tournament. Chris McCartin struggled the most for the Deacons yesterday, shooting 76. He shot a 69 in the first round but yesterday bogeyed three of his last four holes.
Doug Manchester of the Deacons improved his position with a 74. Manchester shot a 76 in the first round.
North Carolina struggled again and is at 10 over after 36 holes, and is tied for 18th with UNC Charlotte. In yesterdayâs second round, however, Robert Riesen and Jonathan Jackson each shot 70 to lead the Tar Heels.
Duke shot 9 over 297 yesterday and is 11 over for the tournament (tied for 20th). None of the Blue Devils broke par yesterday with Ryan Blaum and Jake Grodzinsky each shooting 73.
N.C. State, behind Darren Blairâs 70, shot 284 and is tied for 12th place.
After todayâs round the field will be cut to the top 15 teams."
i did some research and found out they have covered wake and other teams playing in every round including the regionals as well.
i donât guess it makes any difference any more though. we are finished.
still a good season for the golf team.
here is the NEW article from the winston-salem paper about the third round just in case anyone is interested. once again, great coverage of the hometown team. too bad they still call us âunc charlotteâ though.
Wake Forest remained in contention for an NCAA Men's Golf Championship after fighting its way through a rainy third round yesterday at the Sunriver Resort Crosswater Club.The Deacons shot a 6-over par 294 and trail the overall leader, Washington, by three shots heading into todayâs final round.
Rain fell for most of the day, making the course play longer and harder.
Washington is at 7 under for the tournament with Oklahoma State, Wake Forest and Arizona State tied for second at 4 under. Minnesota and Lamar are tied for third at 1 over par, eight shots behind Washington.
âIt was just a very wet round of golf,â said Kyle Reifers of the Deacons, the second-round leader who shot 73 and trails by a shot for the individual title.
Jonathan Moore of Okalahoma State shot a 69 and is at 9 under, one shot better than Reifers.
Reifers had his streak of nine straight rounds of par or better snapped, but he is confident about his chances of winning.
âIt was a tough day but we all got through it,â Reifers said. âI didnât hit many good shots and you just have to keep on trucking.â
Reifers had birdies on Nos. 1 and 9 and bogeys on 5, 10 and 12. He lipped out for birdies on 17 and 18.
Throughout his career, Reifers, a senior, has played and won several big tournaments, including last summerâs Northeast Amateur. He also played on the Walker Cup team.
âIâm definitely going to use that experience and just go out there and play my game,â Reifers said. âThe weather is supposed to be a little better so weâll see what happens. But Iâm confident and I know our team is confident as well.â
On the difficult 12th hole, which is playing as a par 5, Reifers failed to convert a par putt from 18 feet.
The course is playing at 7,630 yards but Webb Simpson, who shot 75 yesterday for the Deacons, said that with the rain the course was playing closer to 8,000 yards.
Sean Moore was the top scorer for the Deacons as he salvaged an even-par round with one birdie and one bogey. He birdied No. 6, a par-5, and wound up bogeying No. 14. Moore is 2 over for the tournament heading into todayâs final round.
Doug Manchester struggled for the Deacons and shot 80, but his score did not count toward the team total. Manchester had a triple bogey on 4 and five other bogeys including three in a row on 14, 15 and 16.
Chris McCartin shot a 74 for the Deacons, which included birdies on Nos. 1 and 18 while Simpson shot 75, which included a birdie on his last hole that put the Deacons into a tie for second place.
There was a mild controversy with McCartinâs round because on No. 7 he had to mark his ball just off the green so that another player could hit. But in doing so, a spectator reported a possible rules violation to Matt Thurmond, the coach at Washington.
Thurmond then reported it to rules officials, according to Coach Jerry Haas of the Deacons.
McCartin wound up having to take a penalty stroke, and instead of 73 he had to settle for 74.
Haas said: âWe waited to get a ruling before Chris signed his scorecard. Chris wasnât sure if he did inadvertently clean the ball but itâs not something we are going to let affect us. Weâll be ready to play and if anything we can use that as some motivation.â
Haas said that the conditions made it tough for everybody, but he was glad his team did enough to still be hanging around near the top of the leaderboard.
âIf you asked me at the beginning of the year (if) we would (like to) be in this position I would have said yes,â he said. "We have got a chance to bring it home and thatâs all you can ask for.
âWe have a spirited bunch and I think they will play well in the final round.â
Simpson rebounded nicely from a double bogey on 12 to birdie 13 and, after a bogey on 17, he birdied 18.
Simpson, a sophomore, said that the mind-set for todayâs final round will be much like it was the first round when the Deacons shot 11 under.
âWe just have to go out there and think about the same thing like we have nothing to lose,â Simpson said.
âWe know we are good and have confidence because weâve put ourselves into this position.â
Without getting too far ahead of themselves, Simpson said that it would mean a lot to win the schoolâs fourth NCAA title and first since 1986.
âIt would mean a lot to us and especially to Coach,â Simpson said. âNow itâs just a matter of going out and playing our game.â
The 30-team field was cut in half for the final round and Duke was among those making the cut.
Missing the cut were N.C. State, North Carolina and UNC Charlotte. Coastal Carolina missed the cut after a playoff with BYU.
Moore has a one-shot lead on Reifers and is two ahead of Pablo Martin (71), who is at 2 under. Andrew Parr (69) of Texas A&M is fourth at 6 under, three shots behind Moore.
Sheedy seems to be playing a 4th day today based on him being even par. He is tied for 21st place. Leader is -9 so with a good day he may make some noise
[QUOTE=NinerPride;176140]Sheedy seems to be playing a 4th day today based on him being even par. He is tied for 21st place. Leader is -9 so with a good day he may make some noise[/QUOTE]
Thanks for bringing that to our attention. I just checked on his score. He was in the first group to tee off today and is one over after 14 holes, so he may have a chance at finishing in the top 20 if some of the other contenders have a bad round.
If you guys havenât seen this link yet, check it out. They interview Jamie Green at around the 75% mark of the video. Just a quick interview, but itâs cool to have him on there.
[URL=http://www.golfweektv.com/index.asp?CATEGORY_ID=15&ID=202&FMT=WM]Golf Week TV[/URL]
Ray Sheedy finishes tied for 27th after going 1 over par today. His four rounds: 68-76-72-73=289. Oklahoma Stateâs Jonathan Moore earns medalist honors with an unbelievable 12 under par (68-70-69-69=276).
[B][U]Final Team Results[/U][/B]
1 Oklahoma State, -9
2 Florida, -6
T3 Minnesota, -5
T3 Wake Forest, -5
5 Kentucky, +1
6 Georgia, +4
T7 Clemson, +5
T7 UCLA, +5
T9 Lamar, +6
T9 Washington, +6
11 Arizona State, +7
12 Duke, +10
13 Arizona, +16
14 Texas A&M, +17
15 Brigham Young, +20