{"id":673545,"date":"2026-05-30T05:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/673545\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T05:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:20:08","slug":"auburn-starts-fast-at-the-ncaa-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/673545\/","title":{"rendered":"Auburn starts fast at the NCAA Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top-ranked Tigers on Friday showed that they mean business in California.<\/p>\n<p>Auburn finished the first round of stroke play at 4-under and in second place. <\/p>\n<p>A record-setting round appeared to be a possibility early Friday when coach Nick Clinard\u2019s team opened 5-under through the first three holes. That was a curious development considering how slowly Auburn started during all three days of the Athens Regional last week.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the fast start Friday didn\u2019t hold. A pair of double bogeys \u2014 one from <a href=\"https:\/\/auburntigers.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/player\/logan-reilly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Reilly<\/a> and one from <a href=\"https:\/\/auburntigers.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/player\/josiah-gilbert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josiah Gilbert<\/a> \u2014\u00a0were significant setbacks on the front nine holes. Auburn nonetheless settled down on the back nine, posting five birdies, three bogeys and zero double bogeys.<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert rebounded from his double bogey and notched a team-best six birdies. He finished at 2-under for the day. <a href=\"https:\/\/auburntigers.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/player\/jackson-koivun\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Koivun<\/a>, recently named the nation\u2019s top amateur golfer for the second time in his career, led the way with a 2-under 70.<\/p>\n<p>Auburn resumes play Saturday at 8:30 a.m. CDT. The top 15 teams through three rounds advance to a final round of stroke play on Monday. The top eight teams from that Monday round advance to match play beginning Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The Tigers won the national title in 2024 and finished tied for fifth place last season.<\/p>\n<p>AUBURN\u2019S FIRST-ROUND SCORES<\/p>\n<p>Jackson Koivun 70 (-2)<\/p>\n<p>Josiah Gilbert 70 (-2)<\/p>\n<p>Logan Reilly 71 (-1)<\/p>\n<p>Jake Albert 73 (+1)<\/p>\n<p>Cayden Pope 77 (+5) **SCORE NOT USED**<\/p>\n<p>TEAM LEADERS THROUGH ONE ROUND<\/p>\n<p>UCLA -8<\/p>\n<p>Auburn -4<\/p>\n<p>Pepperdine -3<\/p>\n<p>Duke\/San Diego -2<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma\/Texas\/Arizona -1<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas\/Virginia\/Vanderbilt E<\/p>\n<p>(18 teams at +1 or worse)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top-ranked Tigers on Friday showed that they mean business in California. Auburn finished the first round of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-673545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}