WEST POINT, Miss. \u2013\u00a0The UNT men’s golf team completed the first two rounds of the Mossy Oak Collegiate Monday, shooting a combined 15-over to land in 13th place.<\/p>\n
Battling a competitive 19-team field at Mossy Oak Golf Club, the Mean Green got off to a hot start with 2-over opening round that put them in a tie for fifth. They ultimately landed in 13th but are still within striking distance of a solid finish, sitting just 11 strokes back of the top five. Ole Miss holds the top spot on the leaderboard at 17-under, while host Mississippi State is nine shots behind in second.<\/p>\n
Blake Keen<\/a> was the top Mean Green performer of the day as he shot even-par to claim a spot inside the top 20. His Monday was propelled by a first round 70 that featured four birdies and sent him into the afternoon tied for sixth. Just a sophomore, Keen will be looking to secure his second straight top-15 tournament finish on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Three Mean Green players sit near each other on the leaderboard after Mitchell Maier<\/a> (+4), Alex Huang<\/a> (+5) and Kalle Svederman<\/a> (+6) tied for 51st, 58th and 62nd, respectively.<\/p>\n Making his first start of the season, Rafael Estrada<\/a> carded rounds of 77 and 78 to complete the day in a tie for 84th.<\/p>\n The final round of the Mossy Oak Collegiate commences Tuesday with the first UNT tee time scheduled for 8:20 a.m. Live results can be followed\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Individual\u00a0Leaderboard Team\u00a0Leaderboard Mean Green Leaderboard
\nT1. Tom Fischer, Ole Miss \u2013 68-70 (-6)
\nT1. Lukas Boandl, Rice \u2013 73-65 (-6)
\n3. Dain Richie, Mississippi State \u2013 72-67 (-5)<\/p>\n
\n1. Ole Miss \u2013 280-279 (-17)
\n2. Mississippi State \u2013 290-278 (-8)
\n3. Vanderbilt \u2013 285-286 (-5)
\n13. North Texas \u2013 290-301 (+15)<\/p>\n
\nT20. Blake Keen<\/a> \u2013 70-74 (E)
\nT51. Mitchell Maier<\/a> \u2013 75-73 (+4)
\nT58. Alex Huang<\/a> \u2013 73-76 (+5)
\nT62. Kalle Svederman<\/a> \u2013 72-78 (+6)
\nT84. Rafael Estrada<\/a> \u2013 77-78 (+11)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST POINT, Miss. \u2013\u00a0The UNT men’s golf team completed the first two rounds of the Mossy Oak Collegiate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-605554","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\/605554","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=605554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}