{"id":289802,"date":"2026-05-30T04:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289802\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T04:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:38:14","slug":"swanwick-shoots-3-under-gators-t12-through-opening-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289802\/","title":{"rendered":"Swanwick shoots 3-under, Gators T12 through opening round"},"content":{"rendered":"

CARLSBAD, Calif. \u2013 Florida men’s golfer Zack Swanwick<\/a> led the group in the opening round of the NCAA National Championship with a 3-under 69 and is tied for 9th. The Gators finished with a 291 (+3) and are tied for 12th, and tee off tomorrow at 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n

Coverage of the second round can be streamed free live on babygrandegolf.com beginning at 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

There will be a 54-hole cut of the top-15 teams on and nine individuals on a non-advancing team on Sunday to earn a spot and play in the final round of stroke play on Monday. After the final 18 holes, the top-8 teams will advance to match play and a 72-hole individual national champion is crowned. The team national champion will be determined by a match-play format features the quarterfinals and semifinals conducted on Tuesday, followed by the finals on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Florida owned an early 2-over start once all five golfers teed off the North Course at Omni La Costa. The group responded, and between holes 12-17, they played 2-under, but four counting bogeys on the 18th moved the Gators to 4-over as all five made the turn. The No. 2 ranked team responded led by Swanwick (3-under) and Matthew Kress<\/a> (1-under) in the final nine holes for a 1-under team score.<\/p>\n

The 3-under round was a career-best at NCAAs for the Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand native as it was the fifth par or better round in seven total this postseason. Last year, Swanwick opened with a 1-under 70 en route to a T27 in his freshman season. He is three strokes back of individual leaders Ian Maspat of San Diego, Connor Williams of Arizona State and Alabama’s William Jennings.<\/p>\n

Playing his fourth National Championship and his 18th\u00a0round overall at the tournament, logged an even-par 72. It also was his fifth even or better round this postseason. He made back-to-back birdies on holes six and seven, going 4-under bogey-free across the difficult stretch of holes 6-9, which features the second and third hardest playing holes.<\/p>\n

The next two counting scores came today was Jack Turner<\/a> with a 74 (+2) and Luke Poulter<\/a> at 76 (+4) as the non-counter was from Parker Sands<\/a> in 78 (+6).

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\nFlorida Scores

\nT9. Zack Swanwick<\/a> – 69 (-3)

\nT35. Matthew Kress<\/a> – 72 (E)

\nT74. Jack Turner<\/a> – 74 (+2)

\nT100. Luke Poulter<\/a> – 76 (+4)

\nT134. Parker Sands<\/a> – 78 (+6)<\/p>\n

Team Leaderboard

\n1. UCLA (-8)

\n2. Auburn (-6)

\n3. Pepperdine (-3)

\nT4. Duke (-2)

\nT4. San Diego (-2)

\nT6. Texas (-1)

\nT6. Arizona (-1)

\nT6. North Carolina (-1)

\nT6. Vanderbilt (-1)

\nT10. Arkansas (E)

\nT10. Virginia (E)

\nT12. Florida (+3)

\nT12. Arizona State (+3)

\nT12. Stanford (+3)

\nT15. Oklahoma (+4)

\nT15. Georgia (+4)

\nT15. Tennessee (+4)

\nT18. Chattanooga (+6)

\nT18. Louisville (+6)

\nT20. Arkansas State (+7)

\nT20. Oklahoma State (+7)

\nT22. Purdue (+8)

\nT22. BYU (+8)

\n24. USC (+9)

\n25. Mississippi State (+10)

\n26. Texas A&M (+11)

\n27. Memphis (+13)

\nT28. Ole Miss (+15)

\nT28. LSU (+15)

\n30. Florida State (+19)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CARLSBAD, Calif. \u2013 Florida men’s golfer Zack Swanwick led the group in the opening round of the NCAA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-289802","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\/289802","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=289802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}