2017-18 Men's Golf News
Junior Colin Laszlo and sophomore Ryan Mallette represent Wittenberg on the as 2018 Honorable Mention All-Americans.
The Wittenberg men’s golf team closed out their 2018 season in the final round from the NCAA DIII National Championships on Friday afternoon at the Grandover Resort and Conference Center.
The Tiger’s survived the cut of the top 18 teams after the first two days of competition, jumping into sixth-place on the second day with a team total of 588 (+12) after two days.
Roughly half of the 217 contestants completed the first 18 holes before thunder and lightning suspended play at 4:30 p.m. at the Grandover Resort and Conference Center.
Nicklaus Award recipients will be announced May 31 with the honor presented by Jack Nicklaus at a ceremony during the final round of the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide at Muirfield Village Golf Club.
As a team, the Tigers put together a 54-hole score of 898. The Tigers finished +34 as a team, one stroke ahead of Ohio Wesleyan.
The Tigers are currently in first on the men’s side, and second on the women’s side heading into Sunday’s final round.
Tim Kremchek, ‘81 (and his wife, Hilary, ‘82) have issued a challenge to the Wittenberg Athletic Department. If we can get 220 donors and raise alumni participation by 1%, by April 25, they will give a gift of $25,000 to the athletic department.
Wittenberg junior Isaac Hartley brought home the medalist award in the final event of the regular season last weekend, winning the top prize at OWU’s Strimer Memorial Invitational
The course was particularly good to junior Isaac Hartley, who won his first tournament as a Tiger over the weekend. Hartley fired back to back rounds of 71 to finish even on the weekend, and one stroke ahead of Christopher Dunne who came in second place.
The event was held at the Grandover Resort, the host site of the NCAA Division III Men’s Golf Championships in 2011, 2014, 2015 and 2018.
Wittenberg junior Colin Laszlo finished in a tie for third out of 88 golfers to help lead the 16th-ranked Tigers to the come-from-behind team victory early last week at the Wynlakes Intercollegiate, played at the par-72, 6,979-yard Black Course at Wynlakes C.C. in Montgomery, Alabama.
Wittenberg men’s golf overcame a six-stroke deficit to win the Wynlakes Intercollegiate on Tuesday, as the Tigers trailed Emory and Huntingdon College going into round two.
Mother Nature got the best of day two of the 2018 Callaway Garden’s Collegiate on Tuesday, as only eight holes of play were completed. Monday’s first round stands as the only carded round of the event, leaving Wittenberg with an eighth-place finish on the women’s side, and a tenth-place finish for the men.
Leotta comes to the Tigers after NCAA stops at Fresno State and the University of Illinois-Springfield, while the PGA-certified professional comes to Springfield with 15 years of experience in player development and golf operations.
After taking a seven-stroke lead into the clubhouse on Sunday, the Tigers ran away with the NCAC Fall Preview on Monday, winning the tournament by 13 strokes.
