COALVILLE, Utah – The Kansas State males’s golf crew put collectively a 36-hole rating of 13-over par 581 on Monday to take a seat in fifth place following the primary two rounds of The Wohali on the par-71, 7,873-yard Wohali Club.
The Wildcats have been one in every of 5 groups within the 14-team discipline to go beneath par within the first spherical as they recorded a 3-under par 281. However, blustery situations picked up within the mountains within the afternoon as Okay-State went 16-over par 300 over the second 18 holes. Kansas State holds a six-shot lead on sixth-place Colorado State, whereas the Wildcats are 10 pictures behind fourth-place BYU.
“It was kind of an up and down day,” head coach
Grant Robbins stated. “I thought we played really well in round one, especially on the back 9. In the afternoon, the wind really picked up. With the speed and firmness of the greens, the course played extremely difficult. We are in a good position going into tomorrow. We just have to keep a one-shot-at-time mindset, play smart and minimize the mental mistakes, and we’ll see where we stack up at the end of the day.”
Okay-State is led by way of 36 holes by a pair of gamers who’re tied for tenth at 1-over par 143 in senior
Alex Lindstrom and freshman
Ville Virkkala. Lindstrom, a local of Halmstad, Sweden, was constant over his two rounds, posting a 1-under par 70 within the morning spherical earlier than carding a 2-over par 73 within the afternoon, the latter of which featured an eagle on the par-5 4th gap.
A product of Espoo, Finland, Virkkala put collectively a first-round rating of 5-under par 66, which included a bogey-free and 5-under par entrance 9 with birdies on Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6 and 9. His spherical tied for the fourth lowest at school historical past by a freshman, one shot shy of the file held by three different gamers and most just lately completed by
Cooper Schultz within the Old Town Collegiate in September 2021. Virkkala was unable to maintain the momentum going within the second spherical as he turned in a rating of 6-over par 77.
Senior switch
Shea Harmeson is correct behind Lindstrom and Virkkala at 2-over par 144 and tied for 18th place. A switch from Saginaw Valley State, Harmeson went even par 71 within the first spherical due to a bogey-free and 2-under par again 9 earlier than taking pictures a 2-over par 73 over the second 18 holes.
Fionn Dobbin and
Tyler Strong, each sophomores, rounded out Okay-State’s scoring lineup on the primary day, as Dobbin is tied for forty fourth place at 9-over par 151 and Strong is tied for 63rd place at 17-over par 159.
Freshman
Oliver Toyer and senior
JP Roller are taking part in in a separate particular person event, the Soldier Hollow Individual held on the par-72, 7,719-yard Soldier Hollow Golf Course in Midway, Utah. Toyer is tied for thirty eighth place at 8-over par 152, which included a second-round rating of 1-over par 73. Roller is tied for forty seventh place at 11-over par 155.
The closing spherical of The Wohali can be contested on Tuesday. Live outcomes could be
followed here, whereas outcomes of the Soldier Hollow Individual could be
followed here.