.The Lee University men’s golf team fired a 866 over three rounds for +2 this week to come in sixth place at the University of North Georgia Mizuno Intercollegiate Lincoln Memorial University shot an impressive 837 (-27) as a team to win the event by 11 strokes over the second place team and host school UNG who shot an 848 on the tournament.
Noah Ross led the way for the Flames shooting four-under (70-70-72) for the tournament. His score of 212 was good enough for coming in a tie for ninth.
Bennett McNabb came in tied for 21st as he was one-over for the week shooting a 217 (73-72-72).
Oliver Lewis-Perkins came in tied for 25th with a score of 218 (72-72-74). George Cordall was three strokes behind Lewis-Perkins with a 221 (76-71-74). His five-over put him tied for 41st.
Mitchell Strickland, a freshman, came in tied for 46th this week. He shot a six-over 222 (76-70-76) over the three rounds.
The Flames will have a few weeks off before going to the Hurrican Invitational hosted by Georgia Southwestern University. Lee will head to Albany, Ga. on October 16-17.
Coach Evan Spence’s Thoughts:
“It was nice to get right back into competition mode this week against some more familiar faces after getting started up in Michigan last week. Noah was huge for us this week giving us 3 rounds at par or better which kept us in the thick of things moving into the final round today. From a team perspective, there was a stretch during our second round yesterday afternoon where things were really clicking nicely across all 5 guys but unfortunately it was hard to capture much momentum throughout the day today in the final round."
"It was great to pick up some regional head-to-head wins this week which will be big for us down the road but ultimately our goal and expectation is to compete for wins every time we tee it up. To get there, there are still some execution and scoring-related mistakes we need to work out over the next few weeks before competing again and that is where our focus will be moving forward."