{"id":429345,"date":"2026-09-08T06:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429345\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T06:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:20:23","slug":"mens-golf-takes-third-at-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429345\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Golf Takes Third at Season Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BARK RIVER, Mich. \u2013\u00a0The UNT men&#8217;s golf team began the new season with a third-place finish at the Island Resort Intercollegiate, which wrapped up play Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>With three returners and a pair of newcomers in the lineup, North Texas maintained a consistent level of play all weekend long as it shot at least three-under in every round. Sunday morning&#8217;s 282 marked UNT&#8217;s lowest score of the weekend and catapulted the Mean Green to their 12th top-three result under head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/coaches\/luke-calcatera\/985\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"985\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Calcatera<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>North Texas completed the tournament at 13-under, just three strokes back of runner-up West Virginia. Meanwhile, Michigan ran away with the team title at 41-under.<\/p>\n<p>In his first collegiate action, freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/connor-bryce\/7879\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7879\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Bryce<\/a> was UNT&#8217;s top finisher at five-under and in a tie for 11th place. Bryce made 14 birdies, tied for most on the team, and was under par in all three rounds with scores of 71-70-70. Fellow newcomer <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/arjun-singh-bhatia\/7876\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7876\" target=\"_blank\">Arjun Singh Bhatia<\/a>, a transfer from Long Island, also led the Mean Green charge at four-under. He placed T13 while matching Bryce with 14 birdies and a trio of par-or-better showings.<\/p>\n<p>Another outstanding college debut came from <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/dion-regan\/7880\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7880\" target=\"_blank\">Dion Regan<\/a>, a freshman out of West Wales who competed as an individual. Regan carded a second-round 67, the lowest by any Mean Green player this weekend, en route to a top-15 placement on the leaderboard.<\/p>\n<p>After nearly three weeks off, the Mean Green will continue their fall slate at the Argent Financial Classic on Sept. 27-29 in Choudrant, La.<\/p>\n<p>Team Leaderboard<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n1. Michigan \u2013 274-273-276-823 (-41)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n2. West Virginia \u2013 286-280-282-848 (-16)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n3. UNT \u2013 282-285-284-851 (-13)<\/p>\n<p>Individual Leaderboard<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n1. RJ Arone, Michigan State \u2013 66-67-69-202 (-14)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n2. Spencer Shropshire, Michigan \u2013 69-67-68-204 (-12)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT3. Vinny Cervantes, Marquette \u2013 68-65-72-205 (-11)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT3. Samuel Baumuller, St. Mary&#8217;s \u2013 66-67-72-205 (-11)<\/p>\n<p>Mean Green Leaderboard<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT11. <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/connor-bryce\/7879\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7879\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Bryce<\/a> \u2013 71-70-70-211 (-5)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT13. <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/arjun-singh-bhatia\/7876\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7876\" target=\"_blank\">Arjun Singh Bhatia<\/a> \u2013 68-72-72-212 (-4)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT15. <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/dion-regan\/7880\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7880\" target=\"_blank\">Dion Regan<\/a>* \u2013 75-67-71-213 (-3)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT27. <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/mitchell-maier\/7586\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7586\" target=\"_blank\">Mitchell Maier<\/a> \u2013 71-70-75-216 (E)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT38. <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/rayhan-latief\/7587\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7587\" target=\"_blank\">Rayhan Latief<\/a> \u2013 72-78-69-219 (+3)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT38. <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/blake-keen\/7581\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7581\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Keen<\/a> \u2013 73-73-73-219 (+3)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n*Competed as an individual<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BARK RIVER, Mich. \u2013\u00a0The UNT men&#8217;s golf team began the new season with a third-place finish at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-429345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429345","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=429345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}