{"id":194569,"date":"2026-03-17T06:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194569\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T06:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:15:16","slug":"no-3-florida-completes-opening-round-at-pauma-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194569\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 3 Florida completes opening round at Pauma Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PAUMA VALLEY, Calif. &#8211; The No. 3 Florida men&#8217;s golf team completed the opening round of the Pauma Valley Invitational on Monday and are tied for ninth-place.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a highly ranked filed that features nine top-20 teams, the Gators shot first round of 285 (+1) and are tied with San Diego State in ninth place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Playing as an individual this week,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/parker-sands\/17764\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17764\" target=\"_blank\">Parker Sands<\/a>\u00a0had the low for UF with a 69 (-2) and is tied for 12th. The sophomore had a bogey-free 3-under front nine with five birdies today.<\/p>\n<p>A pair of Gators turned in 1-under 70s in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/matthew-kress\/17761\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17761\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Kress<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/luke-poulter\/17763\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17763\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Poulter<\/a>. Kress tied for the team-high 11th par or better round this season. Poulter, who returned after missing the last two tournaments, made five birdies. The pair are tied for 19th.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The final two counting scores were separated by a shot in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/jack-turner\/17767\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17767\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Turner<\/a>\u00a0(72, +1) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/zack-swanwick\/17766\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17766\" target=\"_blank\">Zack Swanwick<\/a>\u00a0(73, +2) as they sit T38 and T49.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Making his debut in the lineup,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/josh-bai\/17768\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17768\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Bai<\/a>\u00a0had a 76 (+5).<\/p>\n<p>Florida Player Leaderboard<br \/>T12\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/parker-sands\/17764\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17764\" target=\"_blank\">Parker Sands<\/a>* &#8211; 69 (-2)<br \/>T19\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/matthew-kress\/17761\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17761\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Kress<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 70 (-1)<br \/>T19\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/luke-poulter\/17763\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17763\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Poulter<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 70 (-1)<br \/>T38\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/jack-turner\/17767\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17767\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Turner<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 72 (+1)<br \/>T49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/zack-swanwick\/17766\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17766\" target=\"_blank\">Zack Swanwick<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 73 (+2)<br \/>T80\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/josh-bai\/17768\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17768\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Bai<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 76 (+5)<br \/>*Playing as an individual<\/p>\n<p>Team Leaderboard<br \/>1. Tennessee (-11)<br \/>2. Ole Miss (-8)<br \/>3. Oklahoma State (-5)<br \/>4. Georgia Tech (-4)<br \/>5. SMU (-3)<br \/>T6. Texas Tech (-1)<br \/>T6. LSU (-1)<br \/>8. San Diego (E)<br \/>T9. Florida (+1)<br \/>T9. San Diego State (+1)<br \/>T11. Illinois (+3)<br \/>T11. Virginia (+3)<br \/>13. Toledo (+6)<br \/>14. East Tennessee State (+8)<br \/>T15. Colorado State (+9)<br \/>T15. Loyola Marymount (+9)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PAUMA VALLEY, Calif. &#8211; The No. 3 Florida men&#8217;s golf team completed the opening round of the Pauma&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-194569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}