Men's Golf | 3/18/2023 9:06:00 PM

JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga.  National ranked, No. 2, Methodist men's golf shot a five-under par 281 on Day 2 of the Jekyll Island Collegiate Invitational. The Monarchs now have a total score of three-over par 579 (296-281), which moved the team up two spots to fifth place.

THE ESSENTIALS
Event: Jekyll Island Collegiate Invitational
Location: Jekyll Island Golf Club/Pine Lakes (6,700 yards, Par 72); Jekyll Island, Ga.
Team leaders: 1 – Emory University (283-275—558, -18), 2 – Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) University (286-281-567, -9), 3 – Christopher Newport University (292-281—573, -3)
Individual leaders: 1 – Alex Price, CNU (67-67-134, -10), 2 – Michael Burry, Emory (70-68-138, -6), 3 – Three players tied with a total of four-under par 140

HOW IT HAPPENED

• All Methodist golfers began on the back half of the course, on the second day of the event.
• Cracking the top-10, in a tie for 10^th, on day two was Aiden Spampinato (73-69-142, -2). He shot a three-under par 69 with five birdies and two bogeys before moving up 14 places.
• Cooper Hrabak (73-71-144, E) was able to slide up three places to put him in a tie for 21^st.  He took two strokes off his first round score and registered a one-under par 71.
• Playing much better on the second day and moving from a tie in 96^th to a tie in 44^th overall was Jonny Lewis (78-69-147, +3). An eagle on hole seven along with four birdies to three bogeys led to him shooting a three-under par 69 for the round.
• Cameron Cappuzzo (73-76-149, +5) did not perform that bad with his four-over par 76 on his second go around. Majority of the field, which features eight of the top-10 teams in the nation, played better and resulted in Cappuzzo dropping in the leaderboards.
• Chase Walts (77-74-151, +7) shaved off three strokes from his last round total and tallied a two-over par 74.

UP NEXT
Methodist wraps up the Invitational with Day 3 on Sunday.