{"id":249435,"date":"2026-04-14T16:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249435\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:32:10","slug":"armendarez-in-top-10-am-victoria-mens-golf-4th-after-first-day-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249435\/","title":{"rendered":"Armendarez in Top 10, A&#038;M-Victoria men\u2019s golf 4th after first day in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Armendarez in Top 10, A&amp;M-Victoria men\u2019s golf 4th after first day in Fort Worth<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 10:57 am Tuesday, April 14, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">\n                    By Sam Fowler Assistant Athletic Director-Communications Texas A&amp;M University-Victoria\n                                      <\/p>\n<p>FORT WORTH \u2013 The Texas A&amp;M University-Victoria men\u2019s golf team put together two consistent rounds to sit inside the Top 5 after Day 1 of the Texas Wesleyan Spring Invitational.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars shot 290-290\u2014580 to sit in a tie for fourth place with Red River Athletic Conference foe University of the Southwest following the first two rounds at Squaw Creek Golf Course.<\/p>\n<p>A&amp;M-Victoria is just nine shots off the lead, held by No. 2-ranked Oklahoma City (281-290\u2014571).<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars were spurred by a strong 36 holes from Fort Worth native\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tamuvathletics.com\/sports\/mgolf\/2025-26\/bios\/armendarez_ethan_b4zk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Armendarez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The sophomore went 69-73\u2014142 (E) in the opening two rounds on the Par 71 track to sit in a tie for seventh place in the field of 68 golfers. Armendarez lit up the scorecard with five birdies in the first round. He kept a tidy scorecard in Round 2 with 13 pars and a pair of birdies.<\/p>\n<p>Armendarez is T-3 among the field in Par 4 scoring with a 3.91 average.<\/p>\n<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\u00a0Loading &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Fellow sophomore\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tamuvathletics.com\/sports\/mgolf\/2025-26\/bios\/gratton_brandon_3aq4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Gratton<\/a>\u00a0(74-72\u2014146, +4) and senior\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tamuvathletics.com\/sports\/mgolf\/2025-26\/bios\/chopin_paul_dh4n\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Chopin<\/a>\u00a0(72-74\u2014146, +4) are both T-24 after the first day.<\/p>\n<p>Gratton carded four birdies in Round 1 before a strong second round which saw him rally back from a triple bogey on his fifth hole and close his final 13 holes at a bogey-free, two-under.<\/p>\n<p>Chopin scattered three birdies across the two rounds and didn\u2019t score worse than bogey through 36 holes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tamuvathletics.com\/sports\/mgolf\/2025-26\/bios\/simon_florian_c1rb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florian Simon<\/a>\u00a0is T-33 after going 77-71\u2014148 (+6) on Monday. The freshman closed his second round strong, posting a bogey-free, three-under over his final six holes to finish even for the round.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tamuvathletics.com\/sports\/mgolf\/2025-26\/bios\/boonsrirat_lucky_vkli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lucky Boonsrirat<\/a>\u00a0rounded out A&amp;M-Victoria\u2019s Day 1 scores, going 75-81\u2014156 to sit 63rd.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars wrap up the tournament on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armendarez in Top 10, A&amp;M-Victoria men\u2019s golf 4th after first day in Fort Worth Published 10:57 am Tuesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-249435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249435","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=249435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}