LAHAINA, Maui — The University of Colorado men’s golf team saved its best for last to close out the fall portion of its 2022-23 season, as the Buffaloes recorded their best single round team score in over five years here Sunday to finish in a fourth place tie in the Ka’anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational.
No. 11 Oklahoma pulled away from the pack by shooting a 19-under par score in the final round to finish up with a 41-under 811 score. Clemson grabbed the runner-up spot, some 12 shots behind the Sooners with an 823 total, while Liberty took the bronze spot with an 825 score.
The Buffaloes shot a 17-under 267 in the final round, second only to OU and matched by only Louisiana, its best since a school record 22-under 266 in Wyoming’s Desert Intercollegiate in 2017. It was the second sub-270 single round score in CU annals, and tied two other 17-under efforts on par-72 courses. When the smoke cleared, the Buffs moved from a tie for eighth into a four-way tie for fourth with a 22-under 830 score, tying their sixth-best subpar score as well.
Colorado scored 18 birdies before its first bogey on Sunday, as four of CU’s five players carded rounds in the 60s and all were under par, helping the Buffaloes defeat three top 40 teams and tie another.
Sophomore Jack Holland led the CU charge on the final day, as he recorded a 7-under 64, tied for the second-best single round score in CU history, the seventh 64 overall but the fourth at 7-under behind three 8-under performances. He birdied five of his first six holes and six of his first eight and was flirting with the school’s first 29 on a nine until his only bad hole of the day – a double bogey on No. 18 (which did play the toughest for the field over the three rounds). But he collected himself to finish with three more birdies for nine in the round, and in the end, he finished with a 7-under 206 score, his collegiate best, to tie for 13th.
The nine birdies were a team-high for the fall season and the most by a Buff in seven years, with his 16 overall tying for the ninth-most in the 123-man field.
Tucker Clark was not to be outdone by his fellow sophomore, as he fashioned a 6-under 65 Sunday to end with a 10-under 203, posting CU’s highest finish here with an eight-place showing. The 65 was his CU best and matched his collegiate best round as a freshman at Notre…
No. 11 Oklahoma pulled away from the pack by shooting a 19-under par score in the final round to finish up with a 41-under 811 score. Clemson grabbed the runner-up spot, some 12 shots behind the Sooners with an 823 total, while Liberty took the bronze spot with an 825 score.
The Buffaloes shot a 17-under 267 in the final round, second only to OU and matched by only Louisiana, its best since a school record 22-under 266 in Wyoming’s Desert Intercollegiate in 2017. It was the second sub-270 single round score in CU annals, and tied two other 17-under efforts on par-72 courses. When the smoke cleared, the Buffs moved from a tie for eighth into a four-way tie for fourth with a 22-under 830 score, tying their sixth-best subpar score as well.
Colorado scored 18 birdies before its first bogey on Sunday, as four of CU’s five players carded rounds in the 60s and all were under par, helping the Buffaloes defeat three top 40 teams and tie another.
Sophomore Jack Holland led the CU charge on the final day, as he recorded a 7-under 64, tied for the second-best single round score in CU history, the seventh 64 overall but the fourth at 7-under behind three 8-under performances. He birdied five of his first six holes and six of his first eight and was flirting with the school’s first 29 on a nine until his only bad hole of the day – a double bogey on No. 18 (which did play the toughest for the field over the three rounds). But he collected himself to finish with three more birdies for nine in the round, and in the end, he finished with a 7-under 206 score, his collegiate best, to tie for 13th.
The nine birdies were a team-high for the fall season and the most by a Buff in seven years, with his 16 overall tying for the ninth-most in the 123-man field.
Tucker Clark was not to be outdone by his fellow sophomore, as he fashioned a 6-under 65 Sunday to end with a 10-under 203, posting CU’s highest finish here with an eight-place showing. The 65 was his CU best and matched his collegiate best round as a freshman at Notre…
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