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Amer Ari Invitational
CSUN 17th, Ege Top-30 at The Amer Ari Invitational
2/6/2020 5:33:00 PM | Men's Golf
WAIKOLOA, Hawai'i - Freshman Mats Ege is in the top-30 while the CSUN men's golf team is in 17th-place after the opening round of The Amer Ari Invitational Thursday at Waikoloa Kings' Course.
Ege, who finished the fall portion of the 2019-20 season as CSUN's low scorer, opened with a two-under 70 which is one shot off his season-low round. Sophomore Paul-Louis Gachet is in the top-40 of the 123-player field after carding a one-under 71.
In a field featuring trio of top-10 teams and 15 teams ranked in the Top 100, the Matadors opened with a three-over 291 which is just six strokes out of the top-10. No. 2 Texas and No. 3 Georgia Tech share the opening-round lead at 274 with Arizona State (275) third in 20-team field.
CSUN SCORES
"Overall I thought we played well today, we just didn't finish very well. I thought we should have been one or two-under as a team but it just didn't happen today. The opportunities will be there again for us tomorrow, so hopefully we can take advantage. As a group, this team is more than capable of shooting under par."
The Matadors will be paired with Stanford, Hawai'i-Hilo and Pacific for round two which tees off Friday morning with a shotgun start beginning at 7:30 a.m. local time.
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Ege, who finished the fall portion of the 2019-20 season as CSUN's low scorer, opened with a two-under 70 which is one shot off his season-low round. Sophomore Paul-Louis Gachet is in the top-40 of the 123-player field after carding a one-under 71.
In a field featuring trio of top-10 teams and 15 teams ranked in the Top 100, the Matadors opened with a three-over 291 which is just six strokes out of the top-10. No. 2 Texas and No. 3 Georgia Tech share the opening-round lead at 274 with Arizona State (275) third in 20-team field.
CSUN SCORES
- Ege fired a trio of birdies and was three-under through 17 holes before a bogey-five at the par-4 sixth hole dropped him to two-under 70.
- Gachet had four birdies on the day also got as low as three-under before bogeys on two of his final three holes dropped him to one-under 71.
- Eirik Thomassen and Tomas Helgo each opened with a three-over 75 and are tied for 92nd after 18 holes. Both players had three birdies on the day.Â
- Junior Blake Brothers is one shot behind that group after finishing Thursday's round at four-over 76.
- Freshman Brandon McDonough, competing as an individual, had 13 pars and five bogeys in an opening-round (+5) 77.
"Overall I thought we played well today, we just didn't finish very well. I thought we should have been one or two-under as a team but it just didn't happen today. The opportunities will be there again for us tomorrow, so hopefully we can take advantage. As a group, this team is more than capable of shooting under par."
The Matadors will be paired with Stanford, Hawai'i-Hilo and Pacific for round two which tees off Friday morning with a shotgun start beginning at 7:30 a.m. local time.
#UniteTheValley
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