Results
Baltic, Conn. – After two rounds of play at one of the most unique collegiate golf tournaments in the country, the Til Duty Is Done 2016 Collegiate Invitational at Mohegan Sun Golf Club, the Fordham University squad sits in seventh place.
The tournament is named for Til Duty Is Done, a Connecticut-based, non-profit organization dedicated to helping military veterans with reintegration after returning from duty overseas. The aim of TDID is to reduce veteran homelessness and unemployment by linking and integrating existing organizations that provide education, employment training, employment, healthcare, mentorship and other supportive services.
UConn golf partnered with TDID for the first time last spring, staging a hugely successful tournament, where many military veterans, serving as volunteers, mixed and mingled with the student-athletes to the benefit of both groups.
This year, the veterans have even more of a role in the tournament as UConn has received an NCAA waiver to allow a team from the Veteran Golfers Association (VGA) to compete alongside the 12 college teams in the tournament.
After the first two rounds the host school, UConn, leads the team competition with a 564, followed by Rhode Island (575), Army (578), Bryant (580) and Hartford (589). The Rams are seventh with a team score of 604, ten strokes behind Long Island-Brooklyn but four strokes ahead of Atlantic 10 rivals St. Bonaventure. Sacred Heart (613), UMass-Lowell (614), Central Connecticut (621) and Holy Cross (628) round out the team standings.
Individually,
Joseph Trim is the top Fordham golfer, carding a 75 in the first round and a 74 in the second for a five-over 149, good for a tie for 21st. Trim averaged an even par 3.00 on par threes and was second on the team with 12 pars over the first two round.
Behind Trim is
Thomas Hayes, who turned in a 78 in the first round and then shaved four strokes in the second with a 74 for an eight-over 152 total, tying him for 35th along with teammate
James Mongey, who shot an even par 72 in the first round and the an 80 on round two for his 152 total. Hayes led the Rams with 13 pars on the day.
Matt Schiller is just one stroke behind Hayes and Mongey, carding a 76 and a 77 today for a 153 while
Oscar Cabanas shot a 77 and a 79 for a 156, tying him for 53rd.
The Til Duty Is Done 2016 Collegiate Invitational at Mohegan Sun Golf Club concludes with 18 holes on Sunday.
