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Thursday, April 25, 2024

In their second tournament of the year, the Gators finished in a tie for seventh place.

Florida shot 301 (+17) Tuesday to close out its only round at the rain-shortened Inverness Intercollegiate in Toledo, Ohio.

UF also finished seventh at the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational, the season opener on Sept. 16-18.

Kent State won the Inverness Intercollegiate with a team score of 287 (+3). Liberty trailed in second four shots back, while tournament-host Toledo finished in third at 8-over.

The event was originally scheduled to be a two-day, 54-hole tournament, with 36 holes played Monday and 18 holes played Tuesday. But after heavy rain made the course unplayable Monday, the event was shortenend to just 18 holes.

Junior Tyler McCumber played No. 1 in the lineup. Junior T.J. Vogel, junior Tommy Mou, freshman J.D. Tomlinson and freshman Eric Banks rounded out the rotation.

After recording a double bogey on his second hole, Vogel rebounded and tallied birdies on five of his final 13 holes.

Vogel shot a team-best 1-under-70, good for a tie for second individually, four shots behind Toledo’s Dugan Murphy.

McCumber and Banks both carded a five-over 76 and finished tied for 32nd. 

Although McCumber had three birdies, he recorded a double bogey and six bogeys, three coming on his final five holes.

In his first collegiate event, Banks made a birdie against six bogeys. Monnerville, also making his UF debut and competing as an individual, finished the tournament 10-over.

After Mou (+9) and Tomlinson (+8) double and triple bogeyed their first holes, respectively, Florida was never able to rebound from the deficit.

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For the day, the Gators' four-man squad tallied nine birdies against 19 bogeys, two double bogeys and one triple bogey.

Notably missing from the Inverness Invitational was Michael Furci, who struggled in UF’s first tournament. Furci is the lone senior on Florida’s roster.

The Gators will have approximately three weeks off until their next event at the Kiawah Invitational in Kiawah Island, S.C., on Oct. 17-18.

The par-72, 7,356-yard Ocean Course, declared the toughest course in America in 2010 by Golf Digest because of its large slopes, numerous bunkers and challenging Bermuda grass, has played host to the 1991 Ryder Cup and is scheduled to host the 2012 PGA Championship.

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