The Edwardsville boys golf team finished third in a unique scoring format at the Dragon Classic.<\/p>\n
Edwardsville shot 595 in the two-day, two-course tournament Sept. 18-19 in Pekin. Normal U-High won with a 590, followed by Dunlap at 594.<\/p>\n
The 30-team tournament counted the top four front-nine scores and top four back-nine scores for each round’s team total. Edwardsville played at Pekin Country Club on Sept. 18 and Lick Creek Golf Course on Sept. 19.<\/p>\n
The Tigers shot 297 at Pekin Country Club.<\/p>\n
Their counting front-nine scores came from Brian Cooper (37), Michael Shaw (37), Bennett Briggs (39) and Luke Maxim (41). Their counting back-nine scores came from Shaw (34), Cooper (35), Maxim (36) and Drew Capron (38).<\/p>\n
Edwardsville followed with a 298 at Lick Creek.<\/p>\n
The Tigers counted front-nine scores from Shaw (35), Capron (36), Henry Willenborg (39) and Maxim (40), while Cooper (34), Maxim (36), Capron (39) and Willenborg (39) supplied the counting back-nine scores.<\/p>\n
Using the traditional play-six, count-four format, Edwardsville finished second with a 603, behind Normal U-High’s 590. Dunlap was third at 606 and O’Fallon fourth at 607.<\/p>\n
In the individual standings, Shaw tied for eighth at 3-over-par 147, Cooper tied for ninth at 4-over 148 and Maxim tied for 17th at 9-over 153.<\/p>\n
Moline’s Isaac Rumbler shot a tournament-record 14-under 130 to earn medalist honors. Dunlap’s Nolan Eccles was second at 7-under 137.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edwardsville boys golf team finished third in a unique scoring format at the Dragon Classic. Edwardsville shot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,44,364679,85],"class_list":["post-898651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-news","tag-pubnow","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898651","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=898651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}