PAC Golf Championships to conclude Saturday
Saturday tee times (men)
Saturday tee times (women)
GREENVILLE, Pa. (pacathletics.org) – The Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) will host its annual Spring Golf Championships on Saturday, April 28.
Saturday’s single rounds will be hosted at Oglebay Resort’s Speidel Golf Club in Wheeling, West Virginia. The women will play on the Arnold Palmer course, while the men will play the Robert Trent Jones, Sr. course.
Saturday's PAC Championships at Oglebay will be the league's first at the facility since the spring championships in 2006. Last April the PAC, conference member Bethany College and the Oglebay Resort were selected to host the 2021 Division III Men’s Golf Championships.
Five golfers will make up a team, with the lowest four scores per round from the designated five-player team used in team score compilation.
This year’s PAC Championships feature a 54-hole stroke play event. The men played 36 holes last September at Avalon at Squaw Creek in Vienna, Ohio, while the women played 36 holes at Avalon lakes in Warren, Ohio.
The combined 54-hole team totals will determine the PAC team champions and winners of the league's automatic qualifying bids to the 2018 NCAA Division III Championships.
The All-PAC teams, as well the PAC Players of the Year, are determined by the combined 54-hole scores from the PAC’s Fall and Spring Championships.
Men
Fall results
Thomas More College will head into Saturday’s round with a three-stroke advantage over second-place Washington & Jefferson College. Thomas More, last year’s PAC champion, concluded its 36 holes at the fall championship with a 610 (305-305). W&J currently sits in second with a 613 (307-306).
Grove City College is third (623, 312-311), Saint Vincent College is fourth (624, 315-309), Westminster College is fifth (631, 324-307), Thiel College is sixth (673, 338-335), Waynesburg University is seventh (737, 375-362) and Bethany College is eighth (760, 378-382).
Six players earned medalist honors after shooting identical six-over 150’s last September at Squaw Creek: Thomas More’s Carter Hibbard (Florence, Ky. | Boone County), Grove City’s Ryan Koenig (Cranberry Township, Pa. | Eden Christian), Thomas More’s Matt Striegel (Cold Spring, Ky. | Newport Central Catholic), Thiel’s Jason Thorp (Curwensville, Pa. | Curwensville), W&J’s Daniel Velasco (Santa Cruz, Bolivia | Santa Cruz Cooperative School) and Saint Vincent’s Nate Yackovich (Gibsonia, Pa. | Pine-Richland).
Thorp posted the lowest round of the fall championship, carding a one-over 73 one the first day.
Women
Fall results
Saint Vincent followed up its opening round 361 with a 341 to post a 36-hole total of 702. Last year’s PAC champion, Thomas More, is currently in second place with a 730 (371-359). Westminster is third with a 736 (361-375), W&J is fourth with a 739 (377-362) and Grove City is fifth with an 839 (413-426).
For the second-straight year, W&J’s Kaitlyn Vogel (Pleasant Gap, Pa. | Bellefonte Area) earned medalist honors at the fall championship with a 162. She shot an 84 on the first day before firing a 78 on the second day. Vogel was also the runner-up for Most Valuable Performer honors last season. Last year’s PAC Most Valuable Performer, Westminster’s Kelsey Phillips (Pittsburgh, Pa. | North Allegheny), sits in second after carding a 168 (82-86).