{"id":583846,"date":"2026-04-03T23:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583846\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T23:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:46:09","slug":"three-tigers-get-off-to-hot-start-to-lead-mens-golf-in-mason-rudolph-opener-auburn-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583846\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Tigers get off to hot start to lead men&#8217;s golf in Mason Rudolph opener &#8211; Auburn Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRANKLIN, Tenn. \u2014 Auburn men&#8217;s golf takes a six-shot advantage into day two of the Mason Rudolph Championship at the Vanderbilt Legends Course thanks to hot starts from <a href=\"https:\/\/auburntigers.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/player\/jackson-koivun\" title=\"Jackson Koivun\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Koivun<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/auburntigers.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/player\/cayden-pope\" title=\"Cayden Pope\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cayden Pope<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/auburntigers.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/player\/jake-albert\" title=\"Jake Albert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Albert<\/a>, all of whom are poised inside the top five following Friday&#8217;s opening 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Koivun carded a 4-under 67 to share the individual lead with Tom Fischer of Ole Miss. Pope shot 68 (-3) and Albert shot 69 (-2).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Junior <a href=\"https:\/\/auburntigers.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/player\/josiah-gilbert\" title=\"Josiah Gilbert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josiah Gilbert<\/a> also went below par with a 70 (-1). Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/auburntigers.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/player\/logan-reilly\" title=\"Logan Reilly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Reilly<\/a> followed with a 72 (+1) and sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/auburntigers.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/player\/billy-davis\" title=\"Billy Davis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Davis<\/a> shot 74 (+3).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRANKLIN, Tenn. \u2014 Auburn men&#8217;s golf takes a six-shot advantage into day two of the Mason Rudolph Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-583846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583846","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=583846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}