Sept. 26, 2005
ATLANTA – Kevin Larsen shot a one-under-par 71 to pace Georgia Tech, and the 12th-ranked Yellow Jackets’ golf team is in fifth place, 10 shots behind defending national champion Georgia, after one round of the Golfweek Preview Invitational in Sunriver, Ore.
Tech posted a team score of 294, six over par, Monday, getting a 73 from All-American Roberto Castro, and a 75 each from senior Mike Barbosa and freshman Cameron Tringale.
Larsen, a junior from Santa Barbara, Calif., is tied for sixth place individually, playing consistently Monday with two birdies in each side of the par-72, 7,671-yard Crosswater Golf Club. He is two shots off the lead of Andy Winings of Kentucky, Brian Harman of Georgia and Seung-hu Han of UNLV, who each shot 69.
Castro, a junior from Alpharetta, rallied from a slow start to play the second nine in two-under-par and is tied for 16th place individually. Tringale, playing in his first collegiate tournament, played the back nine (Tech’s first nine) in one-under-par but posted two bogeys and a double-bogey coming in.
The top-ranked Bulldogs have a six-shot lead in the team standings four-under-par 284. UNLV is in second place at 290, followed by Kentucky at 291, Arizona State at 292 and Tech.
GOLFWEEK PREVIEW INVITATIONALSunriver, Ore., Crosswater Golf Club (par 72)First Round Results
TEAM STANDINGS Georgia 284 UNLV 290 Kentucky 291 Arizona State 293 Georgia Tech 294 Augusta State 295 New Mexico 296 Wake Forest 296 Oklahoma State 297 Brigham Young 297 Duke 297 Washington 298 Southern California 304 Auburn 305 Portland 315
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS Andy Winings, Kentucky 69 Seung-su Han, UNLV 69 Brian Harman, Georgia 69 James Lepp, Washington 70 Webb Simpson, Wake Forest 70
GEORGIA TECH SCORES Kevin Larsen (T7) 71 Roberto Castro (T16) 73 Mike Barbosa (T37) 75 Cameron Tringale (T37) 75 Taylor Hall (T56) 78
