WINDERMERE, Fla. – Fighting Illini fifth-year senior Adrien Dumont de Chassart carded a top-10 score to pace the No. 9 Fighting Illini in Sunday’s opening round of the Isleworth Collegiate at Isleworth Golf and Country Club.
Dumont de Chassart was the lone Illini to shoot under par on Day 1 of the three-day event. Starting off No. 10 today, he carded an opening 70 (-2) to sit in a tie for 10th place, overcoming a pair off mid-round bogeys on 16 and 18 that turned his 3-under start through his first six holes in a 1-under at the turn. On the front, however, he posted eight straight pars before closing with a birdie on No. 9 to move to 2-under, four strokes off the pace of Round 1 leader Alex Vogelsong of Auburn.
Behind Dumont de Chassart, fellow fifth-year seniors Matthis Besard and Tommy Kuhl are tied for 23rd and tied for 28th, respectively. Besard carded a 73 (+1) to sit one stroke ahead of Kuhl.
Junior Piercen Hunt, who claimed his first collegiate victory last year at the 2021 Isleworth Collegiate, had an up-and-down day with four birdies, five bogey and a pair of double-bogeys contributing to an opening round of 77 (+5). He is tied for 50th, three shots ahead of sophomore Jackson Buchanan (80), who is tied for 67th in the 78-player field.
As a team, the Illini are tied for 10th with an opening round tally of 294 (+6). No. 3 Auburn sits alone atop the leaderboard at 15-under with a 13 stroke cushion over No. 11 Florida in second place at 286 (-2). Co-host UCF is third at even-par 288, followed by No. 28 LSU (289) and No. 42 Purdue (291) to round out the top five of the team standings with two rounds remaining.
Round 2 is set to tee off Monday morning with tee times beginning at 8 a.m. ET/7 a.m. CT. The Illini, paired with the Minnesota and No. 31 North Florida, will once again start on No. 10 beginning at 8:25 a.m. ET/7:25 a.m. CT. Live scoring is available throughout the tournament at Golfstat.com.
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