{"id":894355,"date":"2026-09-13T15:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/894355\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:36:11","slug":"tom-yu-earns-a-top-15-finish-at-the-doc-gimmler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/894355\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Yu Earns a Top-15 Finish at The Doc Gimmler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FARMINGDALE, N.Y. \u2014 Columbia first-year <a href=\"https:\/\/gocolumbialions.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/tom-yu\/23951\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"23951\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Yu<\/a> turned in a two-round score of 1-over-par 141 to lead the Columbia men&#8217;s golf team at The Doc Gimmler. The annual event was contested over the weekend at the Red Course at Bethpage State Park.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOriginally slated for three rounds, Sunday&#8217;s final round was canceled due to heavy rains and standing water on the course. Results from Saturday&#8217;s first two rounds were marked as final.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nYu was solid in his collegiate debut, posting an opening-round 2-over-par 72 followed by a 1-under-par 69. He parred 29 of 36 holes through Saturday&#8217;s first two rounds. His 69 consisted of three birdies and two bogeys. Yu tied for 15th on the 82-player individual leaderboard.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Lions finished tied for eighth in the 14-team field at 15-over par, beating out URI (+16), Bryant (+17), Providence (+18), UConn (+19) and Hofstra (+28). Yale won the event at 13-under par.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOther notable performances included sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/gocolumbialions.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/neil-kulkarni\/22090\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22090\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Kulkarni<\/a>, who shot an even-par 70 to lead the team across Saturday&#8217;s opening 18 holes. He finished just outside the top 25, tying for 26th at 3-over for the tournament. Junior <a href=\"https:\/\/gocolumbialions.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/ryan-keyes\/22083\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22083\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Keyes<\/a> (+4) and first-year <a href=\"https:\/\/gocolumbialions.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/spencer-carter\/23949\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"23949\" target=\"_blank\">Spencer Carter<\/a> (+4) tied for 33rd.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCompete again in two weeks, September 26-27, at the Macdonald Cup. The event, hosted by Yale, takes place at the Yale Golf Course in New Haven, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW THE LIONS:<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFor the latest on Columbia men&#8217;s golf, follow @CULionsMGolf on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CULionsMGOLF\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/culionsmgolf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/culionsmgolf\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, and on the web at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocolumbialions.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoColumbiaLions.com<\/a>.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FARMINGDALE, N.Y. \u2014 Columbia first-year Tom Yu turned in a two-round score of 1-over-par 141 to lead the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-894355","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\/894355","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=894355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}