Golf Cats Finish 8th at SEC Tournament

by:Ben Ward•04/28/14

 

Via UK athletics

Via UKathletics

 

After three grueling days down in St. Simon’s Island, Georgia, the UK men’s golf team finished 8th of 14, finishing 38 shots behind champions Alabama. Sounds bad, but the top-ranked Crimson Tide cleared the field by 16 shots with four players who finished under par. Yeah, Alabama is really, really good.

But back to the Cats. Junior David Snyder paced UK for the weekend, finishing 5th overall at 5-under for the weekend. Behind Snyder was senior Ben Stow at 1-over (26th), senior Cody Martin at 5-over (36th) and senior Stephen Powers at 9-over (56th). The Cats came into the event ranked 33rd in the country, which slotting them for a projected 9th place finish.

Yeah, the SEC is kinda good at this golf thing, too. As I said before, Alabama finished first at 34-under for the tournament, besting LSU (18-under), Auburn (11-under), Georgia (7-under) and South Carolina (2-under).

The Cats now await their NCAA tournament fate, where they figure to be somewhere between a 5 and 7 seed at whatever regional they are slotted in.

 

Here are the full results of the tournament, courtesy of GolfStat:

 

Team Leader Board
Course:Sea Island Golf Club – Seaside Course: Seaside     Par 70 – 7005 Yards
current
position		 team scoring rounds total
score
to par thru today 1 2 3
1
1 Alabama
-34 F   -12 272 266 268 806
2
22 LSU
-18 F   -17 284 275 263 822
3
26 Auburn
-11 F   -6 274 281 274 829
4
6 Georgia
-7 F   -8 277 284 272 833
5
24 South Carolina
-2 F   +3 277 278 283 838
T6
Missouri
+2 F   -6 288 280 274 842
T6
21 Arkansas
+2 F   -5 280 287 275 842
8
33 Kentucky
+4 F   -7 287 284 273 844
T9
16 Texas A&M
+9 F   -5 288 286 275 849
T9
50 Mississippi State
+9 F   +1 287 281 281 849
11
15 Vanderbilt
+12 F   -4 288 288 276 852
T12
41 Tennessee
+19 F  E 289 290 280 859
T12
Florida
+19 F   +6 292 281 286 859
14
Mississippi
+35 F   +10 292 293 290 875

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