Four Gators Finish in Top 10 at SunTrust Invitational

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Alejandro Tosti shot a 66 (-4) on Sundat to finish in the top-10 (T6).

Four Gators Finish in Top 10 at SunTrust Invitational

Sunday, February 19, 2017 | Men's Golf

Photo Gallery by Tim Casey

By: Turner F. Street

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The University of Florida men's golf had four individuals place inside the top 10, while the team finished in fourth place with a 54-hole score of +13 (853).

Through some challenging weather conditions over the two-day tournament, UF was the only school to have four individuals place inside the top 10.

Alejandro Tosti and Andy Zhang finished in a tie for sixth place with score of one-over 211. The junior and freshman recorded scores of four-under (66) as they each climbed 13 spots on the leaderboard in Sunday's final round, respectively.

Zhang's scores were season bests for 18 and 54 holes this season.

Sophomore Sam Horsfield finished tied for eighth and bookended his weekend with scores of two-under (68) and one-over (71) to card a two-over (212) for the Invitational. In addition, redshirt senior A.J. Crouch rounded out the Gators in the top 10, as he finished tied for 10^th with a three-over, 213.

After recording the top team scores in rounds one and two, Arkansas held off the field in Sunday's finale to capture the SunTrust Gator Invitational title with a five-over 845 for the weekend. Arkansas sophomore Charles Kim won the individual title with a six-under 204. This was the second time that Arkansas captured the team title, the first coming in 2014.

Head Coach J.C. Deacon
On how he felt about the tournament…
"Too many mistakes and pushing too hard on a golf course that you couldn't push around. The golf course won this week, I think you see with the totals, the winning (team) score is over-par, the individual winning score was low, so we just made too many mistakes when we couldn't and they were all mental. The talent is there, we have world-class players, it's just that we've got to be smarter and more patient and disciplined against tough golf course like this. If we can learn the lessons this week, we'll be unbelievable, but if we keep doing the same things, this is the result that we're going to get."

On the course playing a lot tougher this year…
"The course was really hard and that was done on purpose. When we ran into adversity last year that was the one thing that slowed this team down. It was our one chance this week to create our own adversity and we did that yesterday and our guys did not adapt well enough. We've got work to do, we've got some talking to do, but we're going to be better, we're going to learn from this and hopefully this is going to be the kind of tournament that really catapults our season to becoming big time."

Team Scores

Place	Team	Score	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Total
1	Arkansas	+5	288	278	279	845
T2	Missouri	+12	292	279	281	852
T2	Jacksonville	+12	289	284	276	852
4	Florida	+13	289	287	280	853
5	Florida State	+20	288	290	282	860
6	Georgia Southern	+23	292	288	283	863
T7	UCF	+27	290	292	284	867
T7	UNF	+27	296	287	285	867
9	Liberty	+28	299	284	285	868
T10	USF	+29	288	295	286	869
T10	Wake Forest	+29	295	290	284	869
T12	North Texas	+37	291	294	292	877
T12	College of Charleston	+37	300	293	284	877
14	UAB	+49	293	300	296	889
15	Troy	+53	303	306	284	893

Players:

Place	Player	Score	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Total
T6.	Alejandro Tosti	+5	76	69	66	211
T6.	Andy Zhang*	+5	72	72	66	211
T8.	Sam Horsfield	+1	68	73	71	212
T10.	AJ Crouch*	+2	69	73	71	213
T16.	Jorge Garcia	E	69	71	75	215
T39.	Ryan Celano*	+5	73	73	74	219
T39.	Ryan Orr	+8	76	72	71	219
T48.	Gordon Neale	+8	76	72	72	220

* = Playing as an individual

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Follow the Gators: The Gators are back in action in two weeks when they travel to the Southern Highlands Collegiate Invitational in Las Vegas, Nev. (Mar. 6-8).
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