{"id":155802,"date":"2026-02-08T07:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/155802\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T07:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:04:09","slug":"morris-big-day-highlights-strong-final-round-for-uta-at-amer-ari-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/155802\/","title":{"rendered":"Morris&#8217; big day highlights strong final round for UTA at Amer Ari Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     KOHALA COAST, Hawaii \u2013 The Amer Ari Invitational has come and gone and the UT Arlington men&#8217;s golf team finished with a strong showing in round three. The Mavericks recorded a 10-under-par 278 on the final day of the tournament, moving them past invitational co-host Hawaii into 19th place.<\/p>\n<p>UTA&#8217;s efforts were highlighted by <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/ajay-morris\/14745\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14745\" target=\"_blank\">Ajay Morris<\/a>, who carded an 8-under-par 64. The freshman vaulted up 37 spots on the tournament&#8217;s final day into a tie for 70th. Morris&#8217; round was highlighted by a 5-under back nine. The freshman also birdied holes three through six. All told, Morris sank nine birdies on the day with his lone blemish being a bogey on the eighth hole.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMorris was the lone Maverick to finish under par for the tournament, wrapping up with an overall score of a 3-under-par 213.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two other UTA golfers finished below par in round three as well. <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/arth-sinha\/14746\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14746\" target=\"_blank\">Arth Sinha<\/a> turned in a 2-under-par 70 round that featured 14 pars. <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/michael-chevalier\/14065\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14065\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Chevalier&#8217;s<\/a> round wasn&#8217;t quite as simple.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The junior sat 2-over nearing the end of his round after bogeying three of his penultimate four holes. But Chevalier mirrored himself, making up for his lost ground by instead sinking three birdies in his final four holes to go into the clubhouse with a 1-under-par 71.<\/p>\n<p>UTA SCORES<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT70) <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/ajay-morris\/14745\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14745\" target=\"_blank\">Ajay Morris<\/a> 75-74-64\u2013 213<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT87) <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/arth-sinha\/14746\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14746\" target=\"_blank\">Arth Sinha<\/a>: 75-72-70\u2013 217<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT95) <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/michael-chevalier\/14065\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14065\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Chevalier<\/a>: 75-73-71\u2013 219<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT111) <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/matthew-broder\/14751\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14751\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Broder<\/a>: 77-73-75\u2013 225<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n115) <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/nicholas-lyman\/14753\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14753\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Lyman<\/a>: 78-76-73\u2013 227<\/p>\n<p>TEAM<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n19) UTA: 302-292-278\u2013 872<\/p>\n<p>With the first tournament of the spring in the books, the Mavericks will now prepare for the Military City Collegiate. The tournament is slated to run from Feb. 23 through Feb. 24 and is played at TPC San Antonio.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2013 #BuckEm \u2013<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW ALONG<br \/>\nFor up-to-date news, photos and videos of the UTA men&#8217;s golf program, follow us on X (formally known as Twitter):\u202f<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/utamavsgolf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UTAMavsMGolf<\/a>, Instagram:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uta_mensgolf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> @UTAMavsMGolf<\/a> and Facebook:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UTAMavsMGolf\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> \/UTAMavsMGolf<\/a>.<\/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":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; KOHALA COAST, Hawaii \u2013 The Amer Ari Invitational has come and gone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-155802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}