By Roy J. Akers- www.skyviewsports.net
MSU is T-4 after stroke play begins at the Bridgestone Collegiate in Napa, Calif. trailing by ten strokes going into Day 2. Host Central Michigan is last in the 14-team field. The teams leading the tournament dominate the par holes.
Team Stats
Santa Clara is tied for the lead shooting even par on the par 3 holes and is third on the par-4 holes and tied for third on the Par 5’s. Tohoku Fukushi leads the tournament on both the Par 4 and 5 holes. MSU needs to improve on both the par four and five holes as they are midway down the 14-team list.
Par 3-4-5 Stats
Individual Leaders
Bringham Young’s Cooper Jones is leading the tournament at -7. The Spartans Ashton McColloch and Brad Smithson are both in the Top Ten.
Mizuno/Coaches Poll
Auburn University leads the NCAA with their #1 ranking. Illinois is the only Big Ten Team in the Top 10. No other B1G school is ranked higher than 35th this week.
East Lansing, Mich. – Michigan State’s men’s golf team will be one of 15 teams to tee off on Monday morning in the second annual Bridgestone Collegiate Invitational, being played at Silverado Country Club in Napa, Calif.
The two-day, 54-hole tournament is part of the PGA Tour’s Pathway to Progression in collaboration with the Golf Coaches Association of America and co-host, Central Michigan University.
The event features top-level NCAA Division I men’s golf programs and historically Black colleges and universities in addition to four high-ranking individual golfers from underrepresented communitie
