{"id":127294,"date":"2025-09-07T20:33:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/127294\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T20:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:33:17","slug":"golf-finishes-strong-at-alex-lagowitz-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/127294\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf Finishes Strong at Alex Lagowitz Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     HAMILTON, N.Y. \u2014 The Villanova men&#8217;s golf team shot even in the second round and 1-over in the third to close the Alex Lagowitz Memorial in third place as a team Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The closing parts of the second round were concluded Sunday morning after play was suspended due to darkness Saturday. VU bounced back from a 7-over first round to a top three finish Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reigning Alex Lagowitz winner, <a href=\"https:\/\/villanova.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/ryan-pamer\/15599\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15599\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Pamer<\/a>, led the way again for the Wildcats as he finished tied for fifth place individually after finishing even. Pamer&#8217;s best round of the tournament came in the second, where he birdied five holes and finished 1-under par.\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> followed and finished the tournament tied for eighth, shooting 1-over for the tournament. Zerfass finished strong, shooting 2-under par in the third round to elevate to a top 10 finish.\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> finished tied for 16th in his first tournament with Villanova. English was consistent throughout the entire tournament, shooting 1-over in each round.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><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 27th in his collegiate debut. His best round was the second, where the freshman shot even.<\/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 7-over on the weekend, finishing tied for 34th. Alokam shot 1-over in the second round.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/villanova.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/joshua-lavely\/15596\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15596\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Lavely<\/a> rounded out the Wildcats lineup tied for 59th. Lavely&#8217;s best round was the first where he shot 1-over.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Up Next<\/p>\n<p>VU heads to Ryan T. Lee Memorial Collegiate at Wethersfield Country Club in Wethersfield, Conn on Sept. 22-23.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; HAMILTON, N.Y. \u2014 The Villanova men&#8217;s golf team shot even in the second round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-127294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}