The Wyoming Cowboy men’s golf team powered through two tournaments with a third-place finish in each, marking four top five places in their fall season thus far. On top of a third-place finish, the Cowboys had seven individual top twenty finishers between the two tournaments.
To start off the four days of the tournament, the Cowboys competed at the Ron Moore tournament hosted by the University of Denver at the Highlands Ranch Golf Club, a Par 71 course, in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.
Junior Kirby Coe-Kirkham was Wyoming’s highest individual placer in the Ron Moore tournament place 7th. Coe-Kirkham recorded 65(-6) in the first round of the tournament and finished the tournament with a 208(-5) to tie with Hunter Howe from Weber State. The seventh-place finish would be his second top ten finish of the fall season.
Sophomore Tyler Severin and Junior Carl Underwood tied for a thirteenth place with a score of 214(+1) while Junior Dan Starzinski tied for a nineteenth place with Alejandro Soto from Colgate University with a score of 217(+4).
The team as a whole would combine for a total score of 850(-2) right behind North Dakota State who posted a score of 849(-3). The tournament hoster, University of Denver, with 846(-6) won their tournament on Sunday.
Sophomore Carl Underwood’s performances shown through in the Mark Simpson Colorado Invitational at the Colorado National Golf Club in Erie, Colorado on Monday and Tuesday. Underwood would post a total score of 205(-11) at a Par 72 course, only a stroke away from an individual title in fourth place. Grand Canyon’s Michael Salazar, CSU-Fullerton’s Jack Dyer, and Colorado’s Daniel O’Loughlin tied for first to win the tournament with a score of 204(-12).
To end the four days of tournaments, the Cowboys obtained their second consecutive third-place finish with a score of 844(-20). Colorado, the host of the tournament, took first place with a score of 829(-35) while Grand Canyon narrowly obtained second place, just one stroke behind Colorado.
Wyoming will finish out its fall season at the Ka’anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational in Maui, Hawaii starting November 1, 2019.
