Golf Slips to Third Place at The Invitational at Kiawah

Tuesday, September 11

Charleston, S.C. (Kiawah Island Golf Club)

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University of Houston

The Invitational

Golf Slips to Third Place at The Invitational at Kiawah

9/11/2012 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf

Sept. 11, 2012

Final Results \| Season Stats

Team		Rounds				Score
		1	2	3	F
1.	Florida	289	288	305	882	+18
2.	UT Arlington	310	292	304	906	+42
3.	Houston	293	304	315	912	+48
4.	College of Charleston	299	301	313	913	+49
5.	USF	303	301	313	917	+53
6.	UAB	302	303	317	922	+58
7.	Akron	312	297	316	925	+61
T8.	Davidson	306	301	319	926	+62
T8.	Texas State	308	307	311	926	+62
10.	Stephen F. Austin	307	303	322	932	+68
T11.	St. John's	317	303	313	933	+69
T11.	Georgia Southern	307	308	613	933	+69
T13.	Mercer	319	300	315	934	+70
14.	South Carolina-Aiken	307	317	311	935	+71
15.	South Carolina-Upstate	325	314	321	960	+96

Houston Leaders
		1	2	3	F
T15.	Curtis Reed	71	78	80	229	+13
T18.	Roman Robledo	76	73	81	230	+14
T27.	Jesse Droemer	77	78	77	232	+16
T17.	Kyle Pilgrim	73	77	84	234	+18
T44.	Will Dusenbury	73	87	77	237	+21
T40.	Blair Hamilton	80	76	82	238	+22

Overall Leaders
		1	2	3	F
1.	Scott Wolfes Georgia Southern	73	67	80	220	+4
T2.	Tyler McCumber Florida	72	70	79	221	+5
T2.	T.J. Vogel Florida	73	71	77	221	+5
T4.	A.J. Crouch Florida	74	72	76	222	+6
T4.	Santiago Gavino Florida	72	75	75	222	+6

KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. - The University of Houston golf team endured a tough finish in the final round of The Invitational at Kiawah and slipped to third place with a team score of 912 on Tuesday afternoon.

Competing on the 7,344-yard, par-72 Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort, everyone struggled in the final round with no player shooting lower than 74 and no team shooting better than 16-over-par 304 on Tuesday. Although the Cougars final-round 315 was easily their highest mark in the three-day event, it tied as the eighth-best team score on the day.

Heavy winds gusting as much as 30 mph, and a course layout that put players teeing off directly into the wind or with winds blowing straight behind them made play a challenge for everyone.

"This is one of the hardest courses I have ever set foot on. With winds like that, no course plays easy, much less one like Kiawah Island," fourth-year head coach Jonathan Dismuke said. "Playing downwind, it was hard to stop the ball around the greens. Playing against the wind, it was hard to get the ball to the hole.

"We didn't handle the conditions as well as we would have liked. We just have to chalk it up and regroup and have a good week of practice. We will be better for it."

Junior Curtis Reed, who held the first-round lead with a 71 on Sunday, led the Cougars at 229 to tie for 15th, while sophomore Roman Robledo tied for 18th with a score of 230.

Junior Jesse Droemer tied for 27th at 232, and sophomore Kyle Pilgrim finished 34th at 234. Senior Will Dusenbury tied for 44th at 237, and freshman Blair Hamilton - making his collegiate debut - tied for 48th at 238.

Florida won the team championship with a score of 882 to finish 24 strokes ahead of second-place UT Arlington. Following the Cougars, host College of Charleston (913), USF (917), UAB (922), Akron (925), Davidson (926), Texas State (926) and Stephen F. Austin (932) rounded out the top-10 team leaders.

Individually, Georgia Southern's Scott Wolfes earned medalist honors with a score of 220, despite shooting a final-round 80. Florida dominated the individual leaderboard from there with Tyler McCumber, T.J. Vogel, A.J. Crouch and Santiago Gavino taking the next four spots.

UP NEXT
This was the first of four tournaments in which the Cougars will compete as a team during the fall. The team will now take a two-week break from competition before playing at the Shoal Creek Invitational on Sept. 24-25 in Birmingham, Ala.

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