Alpharetta, Ga. – Hiroshi Tai and Carson Kim each shot 3-under-par 69 Sunday, leading No. 9 Georgia Tech to a closing 10-under-par round of 278 and a seventh-place finish at the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate Invitational.
Tech got four subpar rounds in the final round at Golf Club of Georgia’s Lakeside Course, and only tournament champion Duke (-17) equaled or surpassed the Yellow Jackets’ score for the day. The Jackets advanced five spots on the leaderboard and finished ahead of such teams at No. 10 Vanderbilt, No. 11 Alabama, No. 17 Tennessee and No. 24 Stanford.
Benjamin Reuter, who tied for 15th place at 3-under-par 213, and Tai, who tied for 17th at 2-under-par 214, both posted top-20 finishes for the Yellow Jackets, who now look ahead to their final fall event, the East Lake Cup on Oct. 28-30 at East Lake Golf Club.
In four events this fall, Tech has a victory at the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational, where the Yellow Jackets bested No. 2 Arizona State by a stroke and a 15-team field that included 11 other top-25 teams, a seventh-place finish this weekend and a pair of eighth-place finishes at the Visit Knoxville Collegiate and the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational.
The 14-team field at the Golf Club of Georgia included four teams – Tech, Virginia (7) and Vanderbilt (10) – who advanced to match play at the NCAA Championship last May, and eight teams that competed in stroke play. Ten teams are currently ranked among the top-25 in the Scoreboard rankings.
TECH LINEUP – Tai, a junior from Singapore, had a clean card with three birdies Sunday for his best round of the weekend, while Kim, a sophomore from Yorba Linda, Calif., recorded four birdies against a lone bogey.
Reuter, a from Naarden, The Netherlands, and freshman Albert Hansson (Fiskebäckskil, Sweden) shot 2-under-par 70 each on Sunday to deliver the Yellow Jackets’ other two counting scores, while sophomore Kale Fontenot (Lafayette, La.) posted an even-par 72. Hansson tied for 36th place individually at 218 (+2).
Among the three Tech players competing as individuals this weekend, junior Aidan Tran (Fresno, Calif.) closed strong with a 4-under-par 68 and tied for 39th place, while freshman Didrik Ringvall Bengtsson (Stockholm, Sweden) finished with a 70 and posted the top overall finish, tying for 28th place at even-par 216.
Sophomore Carson Kim matched the Jackets’ best round of the day with a 69. (photo by Clyde Click)
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