Team Results| Individual Results | Combined Results
CHUCKEY, Tenn. --- Tusculum University freshman Liam van Deventer carded a five-under par 67 to take the first round lead of the 27th annual Tusculum Invitational at Graysburg Golf Club. The two-day, 36-hole event is being played on the par-72, 6,982-yard layout using the Chimney Top 9 and Fodder Stack 9 courses at the 27-hole golf club.
All five members of the Tusculum A group are in the top-10 as the Pioneers logged a two-under par team score of 286 and leads by 13 strokes over fellow South Atlantic Conference member Lenoir-Rhyne University.
Van Deventer had a remarkable round which included five birdies, nine pars, two bogeys and an eagle on the par 5 fourth hole on his inward nine on the Chimney Top course. His 67 is tied for the ninth-lowest score in TU history.
He leads by three shots over Lenoir-Rhyne's Liam Waldron who shot a two-under par 70. Tusculum rookie Dominic Barron Holden is third with 72, while TU senior Liam Sweeney is tied for fourth place with 73. Nicholas Marchese is sixth with 74, while graduate student John Bennett is 10th with 75.
The four-man Tusculum B team is in seventh place with 322 led by Derek Mubarak's 77 which has him tied for 14th. Bennett Noe is 24th with 80, while Jordan Williams is 36th with 82. Junior Mark Healy shot 83 and is tied for 43rd place.
Milligan is third with 307, followed by Walters State (314), Roane State (316), Bluefield State (318), Tusculum B (322), UVA Wise (323), Emory and Henry (323), Spartanburg Methodist (327), Concord (335) and Mars Hill (340) to round out the team scoring.
The final round will be played on Tuesday beginning at 9 a.m.
