DAY ONE RESULTS
NEW ORLEANS – Spring transfer
Matt Weber shot 5-under-par to lead the University New Orleans Golf team on Monday at the Koasati Pines Intercollegiate. The Privateers sit in fifth place after the opening two rounds in Kinder with a score of 574.
Weber, a transfer from Louisiana, shot a collegiate career-best 67 during the second round – tied with several former Privateers including teammates
Kyle Bennett and
Ryan Fulton for the 14th-best single round in school history. The Lafayette native's previous low round was a 69 during the second round of last season's Hal Williams Collegiate for the Cajuns.
He used a team-high eight birdies and 25 pars to sit tied for fifth individually with Abilene Christian's Gergoire Hoyeau after the opening 36 holes. Both are four strokes out of the individual lead currently held by Cameron Hubbard of Stephen F. Austin.
The Privateers have individually shot 17 combined rounds under 70 so far this season. Bennett and Fulton have four rounds under 70 this season while
Canon Clark,
Mason Roberts, Weber, and
Maximilian Wojciechowski each have two, and
Thomas Artigas has one.
Bennett, Fulton, and Roberts all ended their days tied for 22
nd with scores of 145. All three each had a round of 72 and a round of 73. Bennett made 25 pars to go with his five birdies. Fulton had 24 pars to go with his six birdies. Roberts made 21 pars to go with his seven birdies, and also averaged 2.88 on par-3 holes, second best in the field during the opening two rounds.
New Orleans' second-round score of 285 was the squad's 12
th round under par as a team this season breaking the previous record of 11 held by the 2007-2008 team. New Orleans made a combined 119 pars – first in the field – and 31 birdies on Monday.
Round three gets underway tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. with a shotgun start. Live scoring will be available on GolfStat
here, with updates throughout the day available @PrivateersGolf on
X/Twitter.
DAY ONE RESULTS
5 New Orleans, U. of 289, 285 | 574
T5
Matt Weber (2) 72, 67 | 139
T22
Kyle Bennett (1) 73, 72 | 145
T22
Mason Roberts (3) 72, 73 | 145
T22
Ryan Fulton (4) 72, 73 | 145
T41
Thomas Artigas (5) 74, 74 | 148
HEAD COACH JEFF LORIO
"Not much to say other than it was a rough and long day out there. With such a veteran lineup, we have come to expect a better effort than what was on display today. I did not have the guys ready to play and it showed. Tomorrow is a new opportunity and we need to come out with a much better focus and mentality to have any chance of moving up the leaderboard."
(on Matt Weber)
"Matt played a solid round this afternoon. Whenever you can have a clean scorecard with zero bogeys - it's a good round. He is talented enough to have that kind of performance every time he tees it up! Hopefully tomorrow he brings it just as hard as he did this afternoon- we are going to need another good round from him!"
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