Defending Champion GCSU Leaders After First Day of Seventh Annual Kiawah Island Invitational
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. – Defending champion Georgia College & State carded a team total score of 292 in the first round to lead by one after the inaugural day of the Seventh Annual Kiawah Island Invitational at the 6,875-yard, par 72 Cougar Point Golf Course.
Georgia College & State, who was recently tabbed as the sixth ranked team in NCAA Division II in the 2010-11 Golf World/Nike Preseason Coaches’ Poll, finished as team champions of the 2009 Kiawah Island Invitational with a total two-day team score of 571.
GCSU’s first round team score of four-over 292 on Monday helped GCSU finish one stroke ahead of current second place teams Barton College and USC Beaufort, who both ended the first round of action with total team tallies of 293. Flagler is just behind the three teams in fourth with a team score of 295 after the first round.
Carson-Newman’s Gavin Hay is the individual leader after the first round of action. Hay carded a three-under par 69 to finish one stroke ahead of four others who finished for a tie for second after day one with a 70.
The 23rd-ranked USC Aiken golf team concluded the first round of the 2010 Kiawah Island Invitational in ninth place overall. The Pacers finished the first day with a team tally of 302.
Stéphane Boudreau (New Brunswick, Canada /Kent State) and Kyle Godsman (Moray, Scotland/Lossiemouth) led the way for USC Aiken on day one. Both posted 73s.
The second and final round of the two-round, 36-hole 2010 Kiawah Island Invitational will be played tomorrow (Tuesday, Sept. 7).
Last year’s win by GCSU marked its first ever Kiawah
Island Invitational crown. The Bobcats are the third Peach Belt
Conference school to claim the Kiawah Island Invitational team
championship along with USC Aiken and Armstrong Atlantic State.
The 2010 Kiawah Island Invitational features 21 teams in total
with eight Peach Belt Conference schools involved.
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