{"id":129270,"date":"2025-09-09T03:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T03:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/129270\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T03:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T03:40:08","slug":"harding-mens-golf-holds-eighth-place-after-two-rounds-at-the-mule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/129270\/","title":{"rendered":"Harding Men&#8217;s Golf Holds Eighth Place After Two Rounds at The MULE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>WARRENSBURG, Mo. &#8211; With 36 holes behind them and just one more round to play, the Harding men&#8217;s golf team is holding its own at The MULE tournament. The Bisons wrapped up Monday&#8217;s action in eighth place, posting a two-round total of 579 at the Mules National Golf Course.<\/p>\n<p>Harding opened the tournament with a first-round score of 291 (+11) and improved to a 288 (+8) in the second round. The team is currently second among the four Great American Conference teams participating in the 20-team field.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Arzu leads the way for the Bisons, tied for 13th place individually with a two-round score of 141 (+1). Arzu&#8217;s performance included a first-round 68, which tied his career best and marked his 19th career round of par or better. <a href=\"https:\/\/hardingsports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/dennis-staykov\/17972\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17972\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Staykov<\/a> is close behind in 20th place with a 142 (+2), highlighted by a second-round 70, his 25th career round of par or better.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the scoring for Harding were <a href=\"https:\/\/hardingsports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/conner-geist\/19342\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19342\" target=\"_blank\">Conner Geist<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hardingsports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/austin-bibb\/18238\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18238\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Bibb<\/a>, and Jose Manuel Peralta. Geist, making his debut for the Bisons after transferring from Wichita State, is tied for 45th at 148 (+8). Bibb is tied for 56th at 150 (+10), while Peralta is tied for 79th at 153 (+13). Trent Harley, playing as an individual, is tied for 87th at 155 (+15).<\/p>\n<p>Central Oklahoma holds the lead in the team standings at 16 under par, 11 strokes ahead of second-place Central Missouri. Baylor Bostick of Central Oklahoma is the individual leader at 6 under par with a score of 134.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament concludes Tuesday with the final round, which is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; WARRENSBURG, Mo. &#8211; With 36 holes behind them and just one more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-129270","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\/129270","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=129270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}