MONROE, N.C. — The ninth-ranked Catawba College men's golf team broke the program's 54-hole tournament record with a 12-under-par performance at the Hargett Memorial Intercollegiate hosted at Rolling Hills Country Club, good for third place in the 17-team field.
Catawba recorded two of the best against-par rounds in program history, going three-under and 11-under on Tuesday en route to the Catawba Indians' best-ever score vs. par. The overall score of 852 stacks up third all-time, one spot ahead of the season-opening 856 in a winning effort at the Griffin Invitational. Breaking out the record book, all five of Catawba's golfers in attendance notched top-34 scores against par (one-over or better).
Despite the blue and white logging the field's lowest third round score, host Wingate had already run away with the team crown using a 26-under 838 final tally. The South Atlantic Conference rivals were joined on the podium by Emmanuel whose 16-under 848 beat the Catawba Indians by four strokes. Emmanuel's Gabriel Hull claimed individual medalist honors by a three-shot margin at 205 (-11).
RESULTS
3. Allan Lockwood (209, -7)
T-10. Ilia Antoniadis (214, -2)
T-15. Paul Esnault (216, E)
T-18. Maxence Bonnet (217, +1)
T-18. Pranay Kapur (217, +1)
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Lockwood started the tournament with a 74, but went on to have one of the best days of his golf career with 10 birdies on Tuesday to capture the seventh-best overall score and third-best against-par score in Catawba history for a podium finish
- Antoniadis had a day for the record book as well with a third-round 68 to follow up a second-round par, just enough to crack the top 10 at two-under – his against-par mark ties for 14th all-time
- Esnault clocked in tied for 15th with a steady 71-74-71 scorecard to make par in 54 holes, a better-than-stroke-average performance for the junior Frenchman
- Bonnet wrapped up his first tournament of the spring slate with a 71 in Round 3, his fifth under-par round of the year, to collect a share of 18th place
- Kapur joined Bonnet in the 18th position and also shot a 71, doing so in the second round split between Monday and Tuesday, bookended by 73s in a solid outing at Rolling Hills
UP NEXT
Catawba is back in action next week (Mar. 23-24) at the Tennessee River Rumble hosted by Lincoln Memorial at WindRiver Golf Club.
