LAHAINA, Maui — The University of Colorado men’s golf team wrapped up its fall season here Saturday, turning in its best single round score for the fall, but could only move up one spot into a 17th place finish in the Ka’anapali Collegiate Classic.
No. 17 East Tennessee State and No. 19 Oklahoma shared the team title, as the Buccaneers and Sooners shot the same team scores all three days, including a 13-under 271 Saturday to finish with 42-under par 810 totals. Liberty, the first and second round leader, slipped into third with an 813 total, while North Florida and San Jose State tied for fourth, six back with 816 tallies.
The Buffaloes finished with a 12-under 272 team score, their best in 15 rounds this fall and the seventh-best of the 20 teams Saturday to finish with a 1-over 853 total. Slow starts in the first two round proved to be the Achilles tendon for Colorado in the event, something it corrected Saturday. The four players who scored for the Buffs logged four birdies on the first three holes and CU stayed away from big numbers all day, with 22 birdies opposite 12 bogeys and a double bogey overall by the quintet (20 and eight, respectively, by the four scorers).
The Buffaloes had three players score in the 60’s Saturday, for just the second time this fall; the other time was in the season opener in the Mirabel Maui Jim. Seven other teams also had at least three, but all were in the top eight in the standings.
Sophomore Hunter Swanson led the Buffaloes here from start to finish, tying for 24th as he ended with a 4-under 67 for a 6-under 207 score on the 6,700-yard, par-71 Royal Ka’anapali Course at Ka’anapali Golf Club. It was the second time he led the team in an event in his young career, as he wrapped things up here with a clean round of four birdies and 14 pars. It was Swanson’s second bogey-free round of the fall and the team’s third overall. Overall for the tourney, he had an eagle, 11 birdies and 35 pars with just seven bogeys; he played the par-4 holes at 4-under, tied for 14th in the 120-man field.
Junior Justin Biwer fashioned a 5-under 66, tied for the seventh-best overall in the final round, which moved him up 27 spots into a tie for 50th with a 2-under 211 score. He had a team-high six birdies, the most by a Buff in any single round here, with 11 pars and one bogey (the latter coming in No. 18, the…
No. 17 East Tennessee State and No. 19 Oklahoma shared the team title, as the Buccaneers and Sooners shot the same team scores all three days, including a 13-under 271 Saturday to finish with 42-under par 810 totals. Liberty, the first and second round leader, slipped into third with an 813 total, while North Florida and San Jose State tied for fourth, six back with 816 tallies.
The Buffaloes finished with a 12-under 272 team score, their best in 15 rounds this fall and the seventh-best of the 20 teams Saturday to finish with a 1-over 853 total. Slow starts in the first two round proved to be the Achilles tendon for Colorado in the event, something it corrected Saturday. The four players who scored for the Buffs logged four birdies on the first three holes and CU stayed away from big numbers all day, with 22 birdies opposite 12 bogeys and a double bogey overall by the quintet (20 and eight, respectively, by the four scorers).
The Buffaloes had three players score in the 60’s Saturday, for just the second time this fall; the other time was in the season opener in the Mirabel Maui Jim. Seven other teams also had at least three, but all were in the top eight in the standings.
Sophomore Hunter Swanson led the Buffaloes here from start to finish, tying for 24th as he ended with a 4-under 67 for a 6-under 207 score on the 6,700-yard, par-71 Royal Ka’anapali Course at Ka’anapali Golf Club. It was the second time he led the team in an event in his young career, as he wrapped things up here with a clean round of four birdies and 14 pars. It was Swanson’s second bogey-free round of the fall and the team’s third overall. Overall for the tourney, he had an eagle, 11 birdies and 35 pars with just seven bogeys; he played the par-4 holes at 4-under, tied for 14th in the 120-man field.
Junior Justin Biwer fashioned a 5-under 66, tied for the seventh-best overall in the final round, which moved him up 27 spots into a tie for 50th with a 2-under 211 score. He had a team-high six birdies, the most by a Buff in any single round here, with 11 pars and one bogey (the latter coming in No. 18, the…
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