Utah Golf Notches Season-Low Round on Final Day at NIT

Monday, February 26

Tucson, AZ

8:00 AM

University of Utah

N.I.T.

Utah Golf Notches Season-Low Round on Final Day at NIT

2/26/2018 4:37 PM | Men's Golf

Final Results (PDF)

Tomlinson leads Utah on Monday, posts 66 in third round.

TUCSON, Ariz. – The Utah men's golf team finished in a tie for ninth place at the National Invitational Tournament after carding its lowest round of the 2017-18 season on Monday to close out the two-day event at the OMNI Tucson National in Tucson, Ariz.

Utah posted a season-best round of 12-under par (276) during the third round of play to finish the tournament with a two-day score of 8-under par (291-289-276=856). The Utes finished in a tie for ninth place with New Mexico State (-8).

"Today was a lot better! We played really good golf top to bottom. It was nice to see," said Ute head coach Garrett Clegg. "Blake shot a phenomenal bogey free 66, which included holing a wedge shot from 80 yards out. Tristan turned things around and shot 69 which was huge for us. I believe we moved up three spots in the field and did a great job fighting today. Hopefully that will help us turn things around for this weekend at the University of Michigan's tournament in Scottsdale."

UNLV (-50) won the event, while Arizona State (-38) placed second and tournament host, Arizona (-34), finished in third place. Rounding out the top-five teams at the NIT, North Texas (-28) and Iowa State (-24) placed fourth and fifth, respectively.

Freshman Blake Tomlinson led the Utes on the final day of play, carding 6-under par (66) in the third round, which ties his career-low round that was previously recorded in the first event of the season, the Gene Miranda Falcon Invite, back in September. Tomlinson finished the event with a two-day score of 5-under par (76-69-66=211) to finish in a tie for 19^th overall.

Junior Kyler Dunkle registered a third-round 1-under par (71) to also finish in a tie for 19^th place alongside Tomlinson with a combined score of 5-under par (71-69-71=211).

Sophomore Jordan Costello finished in a tie for 35^th place following a third-round score of 2-under par (70) to finish the event with a combined score of 2-under par (71-73-70=214).

Freshman Tristan Mandur notched his best round of the event on Monday, as well as his career-low round, recording 3-under par (69) in the third round. Mandur finished in a tie for 69th place with a combined score of 7-over par (76-78-69=223). Sophomore Mitchell Schow rounded out the five-man team in Tucson, placing in a tie for 75^th with a combined score of 9-over par (73-80-72=225).

Competing as an individual at the NIT, junior Nathan Wunderli carded 2-over par (74) in the final round. Wunderli finished in a tie for 37^th place with a two-day score of 1-under par (69-72-74=215).

Utah will be back in action this Saturday and Sunday, March 3-4, when they return to Arizona to compete in the Desert Mountain Intercollegiate. The two-day, 54-hole event, will take place at Desert Mountain's Outlaw Course in Scottsdale, Ariz.