SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The University of Colorado men’s golf team opened its 2023-24 season here Friday by opening in a tie for eighth place in the Mirabel Maui Jim Intercollegiate.
Auburn, ranked No. 6 in the preseason Bushnell/GCAA Coaches poll, played like its ranking, taking the first round lead with a 24-under par 260 team score. No. 30 San Diego State is three back (263), with SMU six off the lead (266). No. 22 Oregon (270) and Fresno State (273) round out the top five. Colorado is tied with three others with 279 totals.
The 5-under par effort was CU’s best opening round of a season since 2012, when the Buffaloes opened with a 7-under 281 en route to winning the Air Force Gene Miranda Falcon Invitational.
All five of CU’s players in the main event here are juniors; a sidebar event is the Maui Jim Individual, with two additional Buffs on the trip playing in that 35-man field.
Justin Biwer paced the Buffaloes on Friday, as he carded a 4-under par 67 on the 7,147-yard, par-71 Mirabel Club course. He did so by recording four birdies and 14 pars, and is the first Buffalo in recent memory, if not ever, to start a season with a bogey-free round. He is tied for 13th, five off the lead.
Frederik Eisenbeis turned in a 1-under 70, as one bad hole kept him out of the 60s; he had a double bogey on the 558-yard, par-5 7th, but returned to even when he opened the back nine with back-to-back birdies. He closed with a birdie-3 on No. 18 to get under par to open his junior year and stand in a tie for 32nd.
Dylan McDermott opened bogey-birdie-bogey and had one more bogey to make the turn at 2-over, but birdies on Nos. 10 and 17 got him back to even for the day; his 71 is tied for 44th.
Tucker Clark also carded an even-par 71; the lone Buff of the five to open with a birdie on the 405-yard, par-4 1st hole, he would record 14 pars to match Biwer and Eisenbeis, with two birdies and two bogeys.
Jack Holland rounded out the action, finishing with a 2-over 73 to stand tied for 58th. After struggling on the front nine with a 41 due to three bogeys and a double, he rebounded to record CU’s best side of the day with a 32 on the back nine (three birdies, six pars).
San Diego State’s Justin Hastings is the leader through 18 holes, firing a 9-under 62 on the strength of a bogey-free round with nine…
Auburn, ranked No. 6 in the preseason Bushnell/GCAA Coaches poll, played like its ranking, taking the first round lead with a 24-under par 260 team score. No. 30 San Diego State is three back (263), with SMU six off the lead (266). No. 22 Oregon (270) and Fresno State (273) round out the top five. Colorado is tied with three others with 279 totals.
The 5-under par effort was CU’s best opening round of a season since 2012, when the Buffaloes opened with a 7-under 281 en route to winning the Air Force Gene Miranda Falcon Invitational.
All five of CU’s players in the main event here are juniors; a sidebar event is the Maui Jim Individual, with two additional Buffs on the trip playing in that 35-man field.
Justin Biwer paced the Buffaloes on Friday, as he carded a 4-under par 67 on the 7,147-yard, par-71 Mirabel Club course. He did so by recording four birdies and 14 pars, and is the first Buffalo in recent memory, if not ever, to start a season with a bogey-free round. He is tied for 13th, five off the lead.
Frederik Eisenbeis turned in a 1-under 70, as one bad hole kept him out of the 60s; he had a double bogey on the 558-yard, par-5 7th, but returned to even when he opened the back nine with back-to-back birdies. He closed with a birdie-3 on No. 18 to get under par to open his junior year and stand in a tie for 32nd.
Dylan McDermott opened bogey-birdie-bogey and had one more bogey to make the turn at 2-over, but birdies on Nos. 10 and 17 got him back to even for the day; his 71 is tied for 44th.
Tucker Clark also carded an even-par 71; the lone Buff of the five to open with a birdie on the 405-yard, par-4 1st hole, he would record 14 pars to match Biwer and Eisenbeis, with two birdies and two bogeys.
Jack Holland rounded out the action, finishing with a 2-over 73 to stand tied for 58th. After struggling on the front nine with a 41 due to three bogeys and a double, he rebounded to record CU’s best side of the day with a 32 on the back nine (three birdies, six pars).
San Diego State’s Justin Hastings is the leader through 18 holes, firing a 9-under 62 on the strength of a bogey-free round with nine…
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