{"id":178758,"date":"2025-09-29T23:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178758\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:14:11","slug":"golf-shoots-one-under-par-in-second-round-of-uconn-invitational-at-greathorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178758\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf Shoots One Under Par in Second Round of UConn Invitational at GreatHorse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     HAMPDEN, Mass. \u2014 The Villanova men&#8217;s golf team completed the second round of the UConn Invitational at GreatHorse in second place Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildcats improved by nine strokes from round one to round two, shooting 287 (-1). VU trails hosts and leaders for a second day, UConn, by 12 strokes.\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> led the day for Villanova, shooting 70 (-2) to advance his total score to 143 (-1) and tying him for ninth. Zerfass birdied at one, eight, 11 and 13 and only shot over par at two holes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/villanova.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/nathan-marion\/15598\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15598\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Marion<\/a> followed in the standings for the Wildcats, sitting tied for 18th after shooting 71 (-1) Monday, a three stroke improvement from round one. Marion birdied at holes, one, five, six, eight and 12.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/villanova.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/ryan-pamer\/15599\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15599\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Pamer<\/a> shot 71 (-1) Monday as well, improving his total score to 148 (+4). Pamer birdied five times on the day and is tied for 25th.\u00a0<\/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> is also tied for 25th after shooting 75 (+3) to bring his score to 148 (+4).\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> is tied for 53rd after shooting 78 (+6) for the day and 153 (+9) for the tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Golfing as an individual, <a href=\"https:\/\/villanova.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/luke-leonard\/15602\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15602\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Leonard<\/a> finished the day shooting 78 (+6) to bring his total for the tournament to 151 (+7). Leonard is tied for 43rd.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Team Standings<\/p>\n<p>1. UConn -5<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n2. Boston College +5<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n3. Villanova +7<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT-4. St. John&#8217;s +10<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT-4 Fairfield +10\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Player Standings<\/p>\n<p>1. Markus Lam, Boston College 137 (-7)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT-2. Bradley Sawka, UConn 138 (-6)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT-2. Colin Spencer, UConn (Ind.) 138 (-6)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n4. Rasmus Ditzinger, Fairfield 139 (-5)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n5. John Scullt, Holy Cross 141 (-3)\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; HAMPDEN, Mass. \u2014 The Villanova men&#8217;s golf team completed the second round of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-178758","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\/178758","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=178758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}