Men’s golf hosted their home invite at Turtle Point Yacht Club in Killen. Both teams placed in the top five.
Team A finished in first place with an 842 stroke score, an impressive 22-under-par. They were also 20 strokes ahead of second place Southeastern Louisiana. This win marks their second team win of the season.
Team B placed fourth in the tournament with a nine-over-par.
Team A consisted of junior Andrew Ferworn, freshman Jedd Brady, senior Xing Luo, senior Sebastian Bengtsson and redshirt freshman Walter Waineby.
Ferworn finished third individually at 10-under-par and 206 total strokes. This finish marks the sixth-best in the program’s history at the Division I three-round individual tournament total.
Brady finished 14th individually, finishing four-under-par. Luo shot a three-under-par and placed 15th. Bengtsson finished 18th, one-under-par, closely followed by Waineby at 21st with his one-over-par.
Team A also continued their streak of having the most birdies for every three-round tournament this season. They finished with 64 total at the Turtle Point Invite.
Team B consisted of freshman Arthur Estas, redshirt freshman Luke Davis, senior Blake Henriques, senior Cory Maher and senior Cory Abbott.
They shot two eagles, 40 birdies and 163 pars.
Estas placed 15th with three-under par. Davis placed 26th with three-over-par.
Henriques finished 33rd with five-over-par, Maher at 43rd with seven-over-par, and Abbott at 67th with 20-over-par.
Abbott finished the last round only one-over-par, a personal Lion best for him.
Team A’s win at the Turtle Point Invite gave Head Coach Austin Phillips his 10th career NCAA win.
“This tournament will always be special to me,” said Phillips. “It’s our home tournament, it’s the tournament my kid was born in, and I was able to have my whole family there. It was a special day. The guys did what they needed to defend our home turf and just keep building momentum as the season moves on. Good performances from everyone on both teams just shows the depth of talent.”
Phillips viewed this invitational as a key opportunity to make the regional tournament.
“In every single tournament we’re doing, we just focus. Even if you’re not playing well, how can you save the round? How can you salvage the round to where you’re still helping the team?” said Phillips. “And we’ve had some of those this year and we’ve played really good in the final rounds and made some good comebacks because of it. That’s really been the focus this year.”
The Lions will next face off in their final tournament of the fall season on Monday, Oct. 27 at the Florida Atlantic Invitational.
