LAFAYETTE – The Texas A&M men’s golf team built an eight-stroke lead after Monday’s two rounds at the Louisiana Classics.
The Aggies registered loops of 10-under 278 and 13-under 275 at the par-72, 6,898-yard Oakbourne Country Club. With their two-round tally of 23-under 553, Ol’ Sarge’s charges lead second-place Little Rock (-15). Michigan (-14), Lamar (-13) and East Tennessee State (-10) round out the top five.
Shiv Parmar and Aaron Pounds are the top Aggies on the leaderboard, tied with five other golfers at 6-under 138. Louisiana’s Malan Potgieter paces the field at 12-under 132. Parmar, who is playing as an individual, completed both circuits in 3-under 69. Parmar logged five birdies in the first round and added three in the second. Pounds posted an opening round 2-under 70 with five birdies. He followed with a bogey-free round of 4-under 68.
Alex Long and Jaime Montojo enter Tuesday’s action in tied for 14th place at 5-under 139. They penciled in identical scores of 70 and 69.
Wheaton Ennis checked in at 3-under 141 with rounds of 72 and 69, good enough for 23rd place. Kris Kuvaas rounded out the Aggie fivesome with a 30th-place effort at 1-under 143. He opened with a 4-under 68.
The Aggies tee off at 9 a.m. paired with Little Rock and Michigan as they hunt their fourth Louisiana Classics title in the last five seasons.
TEXAS A&M QUOTES
Head Coach Brian Kortan
On the strong contributions from the entire team…
“We really did a good job on the par-4s today. That allowed us to string together a good number of birdies. It was a good day and they scored well. Any time you a bunch of scores in the 60s it’s a good thing. So they did enough good things well to put good scores on the board.
On the message to the team on closing out the tournament strong…
“Our message rarely wavers. We want to do us. We want to do the things we do well. There are a few things they need to clean up – a few things we weren’t really happy with today. Going into any round one of our goals is always to have the low score, so that won’t change tomorrow. I’m looking forward to it.”
TEAM STANDINGS
1
Texas A&M
-23
278-275 = 553
2
Little Rock
-15
280-281 = 561
3
Michigan
-14
282-280 = 562
4
Lamar
-13
291-272 = 563
5
East Tennessee State
-10
284-282 = 566
6
New Mexico State
-8
277-291 = 568
7
Louisiana
-7
286-283 = 569
8
Middle Tennessee
-6
285-285 = 570
9
North Texas
-5
284-287 = 571
10
Texas State
-2
290-284 = 574
11
Oral Roberts
-1
283-292 = 575
12
South Alabama
E
288-288 = 576
t-13
Louisiana Tech
+1
289-288 = 577
t-13
Sam Houston
+1
290-287 = 577
t-13
Southern Illinois
+1
289-288 = 577
16
Illinois State
+2
294-284 = 578
TEXAS A&M SCORES