{"id":497129,"date":"2026-02-22T17:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/497129\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T17:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:01:09","slug":"nc-state-event-shortened-by-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/497129\/","title":{"rendered":"NC State event shortened by rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     RALEIGH, N.C. \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/gocamels.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/william-sundborn\/11106\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11106\" target=\"_blank\">William Sundborn<\/a> tied for 34th place Sunday after the final round of the Richard Sykes Individual was cancelled due to heavy rain at Lonnie Poole Golf Course.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSundborn was one of three Campbell golfers competing in the 76-player field on the par-71, 7119-yard Arnold Palmer signature design.\u00a0 A freshman from Oslo, Norway, he shot a one-under par 70 in Saturday&#8217;s opening round before finishing the event at four-over 146 (70-76).\u00a0 Sundborn made four birdies in his opening round, marking the fifth time he has played par, or better, golf in six events this season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSenior <a href=\"https:\/\/gocamels.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/malik-dao\/11076\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11076\" target=\"_blank\">Malik Dao<\/a> from Notre-Dame-de&#8217;I&#8217;ll-Perrot, Quebec tied for 40th at 5-over 147 (77-70).\u00a0 His opening round included a hole-in-one on the 109-yard, par-three 17th.\u00a0 Dao then turned in his best round since joining the Campbell program before the 2024-25 season, with a one-under 70 that included four birdies.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFreshman <a href=\"https:\/\/gocamels.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/adrian-bergqvist\/11105\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11105\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Bergqvist<\/a> from Stockholm, Sweden tied for 45th at 6-over 148 (72-76).\u00a0 He made five birdies over 36 holes.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBruce Murphy of Tennessee won medalist honors at 10-under (67-65\u2014132), one stroke better than teammate Chase Kyes (66-67\u2014133).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCampbell will return to action Mar. 2-3 with the Sam Ryder Invitational, hosted by Stetson at LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Fla.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRichard Sykes Individual<br \/>\nLonnie Poole GC | Raleigh, N.C.<br \/>\nPar 71, 7119 Yards | Feb. 21-22, 2026<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFinal Individual Leaders: 1. Bruce Murphy (Tennessee) 67-65\u2014132, 2. Chase Kyes (Tennessee) 66-67\u2014133, T3. Maxi Puregger (Virginia) 65-70\u2014135, T3. Xander Goboy (NC State) 69-66\u2014135, T3. Andrew Gregory (Liberty) 66-69\u2014135.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCampbell Individuals: T34. <a href=\"https:\/\/gocamels.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/william-sundborn\/11106\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11106\" target=\"_blank\">William Sundborn<\/a> 70-76\u2014146, T40. <a href=\"https:\/\/gocamels.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/malik-dao\/11076\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11076\" target=\"_blank\">Malik Dao<\/a> 77-70\u2014147, T45. <a href=\"https:\/\/gocamels.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/adrian-bergqvist\/11105\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11105\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Bergqvist<\/a> 72-76\u2014148.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Course \u2013 Lonnie Poole GC (Par 71, 7119 yards)<br \/>\nThe Lonnie Poole Golf Course, which opened in 2009, is an Arnold Palmer Signature tract and features great variety, with low lying areas as well as fairways with rolling hills. Several areas of the course provide views of downtown Raleigh as well as the NC State campus.\u00a0 The course features three types of character &#8211; flat, wetlands, and trees \u2013 and includes nine par four holes, five par three layouts and four par five holes.\u00a0 Campbell has competed at the Wolfpack Intercollegiate at Lonnie Poole GC multiple times, while also participating in the NCAA Raleigh Regional in May 2018.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; RALEIGH, N.C. \u2013 William Sundborn tied for 34th place Sunday after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-497129","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\/497129","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=497129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}