Utah Golf Completes First Two Rounds at ASU Thunderbird Collegiate

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Utah Golf Completes First Two Rounds at ASU Thunderbird Collegiate

4/12/2019 8:09 PM | Men's Golf

PHOENIX – The Utah men's golf team completed the first two rounds of its regular season finale on Friday at the ASU Thunderbird Collegiate. The Utes are in 14^th place heading into the final day at the Papago Golf Course in Phoenix.

In an extremely competitive field, Utah fell behind in the standings following a first-round 11-over par (295). The Utes weren't able to pick up enough pars and birdies to make a jump on the leaderboard to close out the day and finished the second round with a score of 7-over par (291), which gives Utah a combined score of 18-over par (586).

"Today was disappointing for our team," said Utah head coach Garrett Clegg. "Hopefully we can bounce back tomorrow like we did at Chambers Bay last tournament."

A duo of sophomores led Utah on Saturday with Blake Tomlinson and Tristan Mandur both posting two-round scores of 3-over par (145) to sit in a tie for 35^th place. Tomlinson shot rounds of 3-over par (74) and even par (71), while Mandur fired rounds of 5-over par (76) and then Utah's best round of the day, 2-under par (69).

Senior Kyler Dunkle posted a first-round score of 2-over par (73) and went on to record 3-over par (74) in the second round. Dunkle is tied for 50^th overall with a combined score of 5-over par (147).

Freshman Axel Einarsson and junior Jordan Costello rounded out the Utes, tied for 72^nd place with two-round scores of 10-over par (152). Einarsson had rounds of 4-over par (75) and 6-over par (77), while Costello registered rounds of 2-over par (73) and 8-over par (79).

Tournament host, No. 2-ranked Arizona State, leads the elite field of 14 teams with a combined score of 13-under par (555). No. 7-ranked Texas (-4) is in second place, top-ranked Oklahoma State (-3) is in third place, No. 25-ranked Baylor (-2) is in fourth place, while UCLA (-1) and Arizona State 'B' (-1) are tied for fifth place.

Utah will close out the final round of the ASU Thunderbird Collegiate Saturday morning with tee times for the field beginning at 7 a.m. MST. Live scoring for the final round can be found via Golfstat.com.