{"id":500062,"date":"2026-02-26T04:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500062\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T04:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:49:20","slug":"mens-golf-starts-season-with-top-finishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500062\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Golf Starts Season with Top Finishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BIRMINGHAM, Ala. &#8211; The UAB Men&#8217;s Golf team had a massive last few weeks, finishing 3rd at the Hal Williams Collegiate at Magnolia Grove Golf Club and had two of the top three finishers at the Thomas Sharkey Individual Collegiate.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/uabsports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/erik-olin\/11331\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11331\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Olin<\/a> finished -10 at the Thomas Sharkey event hosted by Georgia Southern University on Feb. 7-8. He shot a 65 (-7) during the second round with just one bogey on 18. In the same tournament, <a href=\"https:\/\/uabsports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/morgan-slaton\/11329\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11329\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Slaton<\/a> finished in 3rd place shooting -4. He shot a -5 second round with just one bogey on hole 13. <a href=\"https:\/\/uabsports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/erik-olin\/11331\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11331\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Olin<\/a> was the American Conference Golfer of the Week because of his performance at this tournament.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Blazers played their first team tournament on Feb. 10-11 at the Hal Williams Collegiate. UAB finished -14 with a 3rd place finish over conference opponents Memphis and Rice. The Blazers finished in front of three ranked teams (#58 Memphis, #57 South Alabama, and #53 Rice). <a href=\"https:\/\/uabsports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/morgan-slaton\/11329\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11329\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Slaton<\/a> finished tied with a -9, good enough for a 4th place individual finish. He shot two 66 (-4) during rounds one and two.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor more information on the UAB men&#8217;s golf team, be sure to follow @UAB_MGOLF on X and Instagram.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIRMINGHAM, Ala. &#8211; The UAB Men&#8217;s Golf team had a massive last few weeks, finishing 3rd at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-500062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500062","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=500062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}