{"id":126244,"date":"2025-09-07T20:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/126244\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T20:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:25:12","slug":"golf-finishes-strong-at-alex-lagowitz-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/126244\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf Finishes Strong at Alex Lagowitz Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     HAMILTON, N.Y. \u2014 The Villanova men&#8217;s golf team shot even in the second round and 1-over in the third to close the Alex Lagowitz Memorial in third place as a team Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The closing parts of the second round were concluded Sunday morning after play was suspended due to darkness Saturday. VU bounced back from a 7-over first round to a top three finish Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reigning Alex Lagowitz winner, <a href=\"https:\/\/villanova.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/ryan-pamer\/15599\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15599\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Pamer<\/a>, led the way again for the Wildcats as he finished tied for fifth place individually after finishing even. Pamer&#8217;s best round of the tournament came in the second, where he birdied five holes and finished 1-under par.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/villanova.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/matt-zerfass\/15600\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15600\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Zerfass<\/a> followed and finished the tournament tied for eighth, shooting 1-over for the tournament. Zerfass finished strong, shooting 2-under par in the third round to elevate to a top 10 finish.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/villanova.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/brockton-english\/15601\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15601\" target=\"_blank\">Brockton English<\/a> finished tied for 16th in his first tournament with Villanova. English was consistent throughout the entire tournament, shooting 1-over in each round.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/villanova.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/luke-leonard\/15602\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15602\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Leonard<\/a> finished tied for 27th in his collegiate debut. His best round was the second, where the freshman shot even.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/villanova.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/vibhav-alokam\/15593\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15593\" target=\"_blank\">Vibhav Alokam<\/a> shot 7-over on the weekend, finishing tied for 34th. Alokam shot 1-over in the second round.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/villanova.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/joshua-lavely\/15596\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15596\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Lavely<\/a> rounded out the Wildcats lineup tied for 59th. Lavely&#8217;s best round was the first where he shot 1-over.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Up Next<\/p>\n<p>VU heads to Ryan T. Lee Memorial Collegiate at Wethersfield Country Club in Wethersfield, Conn on Sept. 22-23.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; HAMILTON, N.Y. \u2014 The Villanova men&#8217;s golf team shot even in the second round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-126244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}