{"id":181042,"date":"2025-09-30T22:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181042\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T22:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:24:07","slug":"zerfass-finishes-third-as-golf-closes-uconn-invitational-at-greathorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181042\/","title":{"rendered":"Zerfass Finishes Third as Golf Closes UConn Invitational at GreatHorse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     HAMPDEN, Mass. \u2014 The Villanova men&#8217;s golf team concluded the UConn Invitational at Greathorse in fifth place Tuesday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>VU shot its second best round of the tournament, shooting 290 (+9) and had the fourth best score of the 15 teams competing.\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> built upon a stellar round Monday to raise six spots to a third place finish, his best for the Wildcats. Zerfass birdied at six, eight, 10 and 14, only shooting over par on 16 and 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/villanova.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/ryan-pamer\/15599\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15599\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Pamer<\/a> followed for Villanova, shooting 72 (E) on the day to come in at 220 (+4) in the tournament. Pamer finished tied for 20th.\u00a0<\/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 73 (+1) Tuesday, closing his tournament shooting 221 (+5) and tied for 23rd. Alokam started the day positively, picking up birdies at one, two and six.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/villanova.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/nathan-marion\/15598\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15598\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Marion<\/a> also finished tied for 23rd after shooting 75 (+3) Tuesday and 221 (+5) in the tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Competing as an individual, <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 46th. The freshman shot 77 (+5) Tuesday and 228 (+12) for the tournament.\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> rounded out the Wildcats, finishing tied for 70th and shooting 237 (+21) in the tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Villanova continues its fall slate of tournaments Oct. 13-14 at the Echo Lake Country Club in West Field, New Jersey when the team plays at the Georgetown Intercollegiate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Team Results<\/p>\n<p>1. UConn E<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n2. Boston College +3<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT-3. Rhode Island +8<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT-3. St John&#8217;s +8<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n5. Villanova +9<\/p>\n<p>Individual Final Results<\/p>\n<p>T-1. Markus Lam, Boston College 212 (-4)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT-1. Bradley Sawka, UConn 212 (-4)\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT-3. <a href=\"https:\/\/villanova.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/matt-zerfass\/15600\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15600\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Zerfass<\/a>, Villanova 213 (-3)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT-3. Rasmus Ditzinger, Fairfield 213 (-3)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT-3. Joseph Dolezai, St. John&#8217;s 213 (-3)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; HAMPDEN, Mass. \u2014 The Villanova men&#8217;s golf team concluded the UConn Invitational at Greathorse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-181042","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\/181042","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=181042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}