GOLF | Hakim Guides Gaels on Final Day at Inverness

Tuesday, September 17

Gold Mountain GC - Bremerton, Wash.

All Day

Saint Mary's College of California

3rd Round

Photo by: Saint Mary's Athletics / Tod Fierner

GOLF | Hakim Guides Gaels on Final Day at Inverness

9/24/2019 5:45:00 PM | Men's Golf

Ash Hakim shot his best round of the tournament on Tuesday to finish in the top third of the field.

TOLEDO, Ohio — Saint Mary's jumped one spot in the standings on the final day of the Inverness Intercollegiate to wrap up their second tournament of the season tied for 10th.

THE LEADERBOARD
The Gaels finished tied with Missouri for 10th out of the competitive 15-team field. After a trying first day, SMC posted the t-5th best score as a team on Tuesday at just 2-over.

Leading the charge for the Gaels for the second time this year was Ash Hakim who placed t-25th out of 90 golfers. Hakim finished 6-over on the tournament and was followed closely by Ethan Farnam at 7-over. Michael Slesinski ended play at 12-over while Blake Hathcoat and Ryan Grauman rounded out the lineup at 15-over.

Texas Tech blew away the field on the final day with a 12-under team score to finish 4-over and eight strokes ahead of second place Tennessee. Notre Dame, LSU, and Michigan State represented the rest of the top-5 in the loaded tournament.

Michigan State's James Piot and Texas Tech's Andy Lopez shared medalist honors as lack of sunlight prevented a playoff for the title. The Red Raiders also had Kyle Hogan (third) and Garrett Martin (t-4th) in the individual top-5 although Lopez was competing as an individual.

The final leaderboard can be seen here.

FINAL ROUND HIGHLIGHTS

Hakim had the Gaels' best 18-hole score of the Invitational in the final round at 2-under.
SMC recorded four birdies on the par 4 18th on Tuesday.
Hathcoat was 2-under with two birdies on the back 9.
Saint Mary's shot 7-over on par 3's during the tournament, fourth best in the field.
Four of Hakim's five birdies came on the back 9.
Farnam tied for second in the event with 39 pars.

UP NEXT: NICK WATNEY

The Gaels will play in their first in-state tournament of the year next week as they head to Fresno for the Nick Watney Invitational. More information and links to the tournament can be found on the team's schedule page.