Seton Hall University
Third Round
MGolf Finishes Fifth After Strong Final Round
4/13/2014 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
April 13, 2014
PRINCETON, N.J. - Three Pirates shot even-par or better in Sunday's final round of the Princeton Invitational as the Seton Hall men's golf team improved to finish fifth among 15 teams in the competitive field at Springdale Country Club.
Freshman Lloyd Jefferson Go (Guadalupe Cebu City, Philippines) led team's superb round with a 3-under-par, 68. He finished tied for sixth place among 78 individual golfers with a 3-under-par, 72-70-68-210 for the three-round tournament. Go finished five strokes behind the individual champion, Harvard's Akash Mirchandani
Go's performance this weekend is the third time this year he has completed a tournament under par, which ties him for the fourth-most in Seton Hall history despite not having yet finished his freshman year. Only Eugene Smith (nine), Kyle Morris (six) and Mike Costigan (four) have recorded more career sub-par tournaments and two of which, Smith and Costigan, are Seton Hall Athletics Hall of Famers.
JT Harper (Pebble Beach, Calif.) fired a career-best 1-under-par, 70, in round three. It's his first sub-par round of his career at Seton Hall. Harper tied for 19th place overall with a 3-over-par, 73-73-70-216. His 3-over-par is also his best tournament score as a Pirate.
Sophomore Cory Wilson (Newton, N.J.) fired his second even-par, 71, of the tournament on Sunday. Wilson finished tied for 24th place with a 5-over-par, 71-76-71-218.
Collectively, Seton Hall had the second-best third round in the 15-team field. The Pirates' fired an even-par, 284, to climb from a ninth place tie after two rounds into fifth place finish. Seton Hall completed the three-round event with a 15-over-par, 288-295-284-867, 35 strokes behind the team champion, Harvard. Their 15-over-par is their best tournament score vs. par since shooting 7-over-par at the Towson Invitational in 2012. Furthermore, Seton Hall's three-round score of 867 is the third-lowest par-71, three-round score in program history.
Sophomore David Cha (Carrollton, Texas) turned in the second-best tournament performance of his young career. Cha completed the three-round event with an 11-over-par, 72-77-75-224. Freshman Kevin O'Brien (Wexford, Pa.) finished just two strokes behind Cha with a 13-over-par, 75-76-75-226.
The tournament, hosted by Princeton University, featured 15 teams including: Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Harvard, Navy, Penn, Princeton, Rider, Rutgers, Saint Joseph's, Seton Hall, Temple and Yale.
Seton Hall will return to the links on Saturday for the first two rounds of the three-round Rutherford Intercollegiate in State College, Pa.
