Alabama Makes Move up Leaderboard in Round Two of the Old Waverly Collegiate

Saturday, March 27

Starkville, Miss.

Alabama

Old Waverly Collegiate

Alabama Makes Move up Leaderboard in Round Two of the Old Waverly Collegiate

3/27/2021 4:21:00 PM | Men's Golf

Round Three Tee Times Round Two Results Live Scoring

The Crimson Tide carded an 8-under par 280 during Saturday’s second round of play

STARKVILLE, Miss. – The No. 24 Alabama men's golf team made the second-biggest move up the leaderboard during Saturday's second round of play at the Old Waverly Collegiate Championship, ending the day with a score of 8-under par 280. The Crimson Tide vaulted four spots into a 10^th-place tie entering Sunday's final round with a 36-hole team score of 1-over par 577 (297-280).

Ninth-ranked Texas A&M (559) holds the clubhouse lead by one stroke over No. 13 Georgia (560) going into the final 18 holes. Arkansas (562), ranked No. 22 nationally, made the biggest jump by moving up seven spots into third overall after shooting a 19-under par 269 Saturday as a team, followed by No. 21 Tennessee (563), No. 10 Vanderbilt (566) and No. 25 LSU (566) round out the top five teams, respectively.

Alabama Highlights

Three of the five golfers in the UA lineup combined to shoot 9-under in Canon Claycomb (-4), JP Cave (-3) and Thomas Ponder (-2)
Claycomb led the charge with five birdies and just one bogey as he tied his season-low 18-hole score of 68 and will enter the final round in a tie for 39^th with a 2-over 144 (76-68)
Cave (73-69), who also matched his season-low round on Saturday, and Ponder (72-70) are tied for 18^th overall with both carding a 36-hole score of 2-under par 142

The Rest Of The Lineup

Wilson Furr is in a tie for 67^th with a 149 (76-73) par 72, 7,088-yard Old Waverly Golf Course
Jack Goldasich rounds out the starting lineup in 77^th with a 152 (79-73)
Simms Abney is competing as an individual and owns a score of 159 (77-81) after two rounds of play

Fun Fact

For the fourth time across its last five rounds played, Alabama has scored under par as a team dating back to the Tiger Invitational

Round Three Info

Alabama will tee off the third and final round on Sunday at 9:20 a.m. CT off Hole No. 10
Live scoring throughout the final round can be found at Golfstat.com

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