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Deacs In 5th After Round One of USCC
10/18/2013 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
Oct. 18, 2013
By Gary Petit, Wake Forest Athletic Communications (@WakeMGolf)
ALPHARETTA, Ga. - The Wake Forest men's golf team opened the prestigious US Collegiate Championship on Friday with a round of 2-under 286 and is in fifth place.
This was the third-straight under-par round for the Deacons. Georgia Tech holds the opening round lead after a 9-under 279.
Sophomore Davis Womble rebounded from a tough week last weekend with an opening round 2-under 70. He made a total of 14 pars on the day and birdied two of his final three holes. Womble starts the second round in a tie for 10th.
Senior Thomas Birdsey is coming off the best tournament of his career and he continued that solid play with a 1-under 71. This was his fourth-straight under-par round and he is tied for 20th.
Freshman Danny Guise was a shot behind Birdsey at even-par 72. Like Birdsey, this was Guise' fourth-straight round at par or better. Fellow freshman Clancy Waugh made the turn in 2-over par and slipped to 3-over par after a double-bogey at No. 14. But he eagled the par-5 18th to finish his round with a 1-over 73.
Cyrus Stewart rounded out the Deacon-five on Friday with a 5-over 77.
Virginia's Ben Rusch and Georgia Tech's Ollie Schniederjans each shot rounds of 6-under 66. They lead a pack of seven players who shot 3-under 69s on Friday.
Wake Forest will start the second round at 9:00 a.m. Saturday morning with Duke and Texas A&M. Live video of the event will be shown at new.livestream.com/2013uscc/webcast each of the final two rounds beginning at 3 p.m.
The U.S. Collegiate ChampionshipGolf Club of GeorgiaAlpharetta, Ga.
Pl. Team R1 1 Georgia Tech 279 (-9)2 Oklahoma State 284 (-4)3 Virginia 285 (-3) Texas A&M 285 (-3)5 Wake Forest 286 (-2) UCLA 286 (-2)7 Iowa 287 (-1)8 Stanford 288 (E)9 Southern Cal 290 (+2)10 Duke 291 (+3)11 Washington 294 (+6) ETSU 294 (+6)13 Kent State 296 (+8)14 Auburn 297 (+9)15 Clemson 299 (+11)
Top-5 Individuals1 Ben Rusch (UVA) 66 (-6) Ollie Schniederjans (GT)66 (-6)3 Seven tied 69 (-3)
Wake Forest Individuals10 Davis Womble 70 (-2)20 Thomas Birdsey 71 (-1)25 Danny Guise 72 (E)35 Clancy Waugh 73 (+1)66 Cyrus Stewart 77 (+5)
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