PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – The Grand Canyon men's golf team concluded its fall season at Poppy Hills Golf Club in the Saint Mary's Invitational Wednesday afternoon.
The Lopes placed 14th with a team score of 45 over par. San Diego won the event and was the only team of the 16-team field to shoot under par (7 under).
As a squad, GCU shot 6 over par Wednesday to tie for the third-best score in Wednesday's third and final round. Lopes fifth-year senior
Parker Reddig tied for 16th place at 3 over par, shooting a 1-over 72 on each day of the three-round tournament. It was the second straight top-20 finish for Reddig, who took second place at the Stockton Invitational on Oct. 22.
GCU junior
Nicky Kling shot 3 over on Wednesday to finish 9 over for the tournament and tie for 38th. Senior
Matthew Braley and sophomore
Josh McCabe tied for 72nd at 19 over while junior
Craig Passmore placed 85th at 23 over.
The Lopes begin their spring season in Lihue, Kaua'i, Hawaii, at the John A. Burns Intercollegiate. The three-round tournament begins Feb. 16.
Day 1 recap
Reddig and Kling each shot near par at the Saint Mary's Invitational on Monday, but the Lopes men's golf team finished the first round in a tie for 15th place.
In GCU's final fall tournament, Reddig was the team's steadiest performer with 15 pars, 1 birdie and 2 bogeys to be in a 29th-place tie at Poppy Hills Golf Course in Pebble Beach, California. Reddig's 1-over round of 72 was just one stroke ahead of Kling, who ended the day at 2 over-73 when he closed with a birdie to shake off consecutively carding a double bogey and bogey.
Reddig, who transferred from Florida State, and Kling, a Scottsdale Chaparral High School graduate, have carried GCU's lowest fall scoring averages through 13 rounds apiece. Kling's average has dropped nearly four strokes from last season's average. This week's GCU tournament lineup is rounded out by McCabe (5 over, tied for 67th), Passmore (12 over, tied for 90th) and Braley (12 over, tied for 90th).
The Lopes will try to climb the leaderboard Tuesday and Wednesday for the next two rounds of the 16-team event. San Diego enters Tuesday's second round with the tournament team lead at 9 under par, just two strokes ahead of Loyola Marymount.
Tournament play resumes for the Lopes at 9:20 a.m. Tuesday on the 7,091-yard forest course.