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No. 24 South Carolina’s Season Ends in Norman – University of South Carolina Athletics
Males’s Golf | 5/18/2022 6:34:00 PM
NORMAN, Okla. — No. 24 South Carolina noticed its season come to an in depth on Wednesday on the NCAA Norman Regional. The Gamecocks shot 293 (+5) and completed sixth, six photographs again of the top-five cutline for the NCAA Championship.
Redshirt senior Evans Lewis shot 69 (-3) and punched his ticket as a person as the best ending golfer on a non-advancing workforce. The Sumter, S.C., native shot 210 (-6) over 54-holes to complete T-5th with three different gamers. Lewis had 4 birdies on the again 9 of the course at present and made the flip at 3-under. The switch from North Greenville closed with a good par 36 coming into the clubhouse.
Senior All-American Ryan Corridor shot 72 (E) after battling again from a tricky 3-over begin on the bottom of the course at present. He made eagle on the par-5 18th and back-to-back birdies at holes 4 and 5 to get again to even on the day. Corridor had 4 birdie alternatives down the stretch on holes six by 9 however could not get any putts to drop. The Knoxville, Tenn., native completed T-28th at 3-over for the event in his closing look in Garnet and Black.
“It was a tricky approach to end our season and we’re all fairly dissatisfied proper now,” stated head coach Invoice McDonald. “I am actually completely happy for Evans and his exhibiting. Making NCAAs as a person is kind of an accomplishment, and I sit up for being in Scottsdale with him. The workforce had a strong 12 months total. Successful 3 times just isn’t straightforward to do in our enterprise and we additionally
managed to develop a few of our youthful guys as nicely. It is onerous saying goodbye to Ryan, however he is had an unbelievable profession as a Gamecock. I’m enthusiastic about his alternatives professionally developing, and I will probably be his largest fan.”
Corridor, who grew to become simply the second PING First Crew All-American in program historical past alongside Matt NeSmith after one of many best season’s in class historical past final 12 months, will depart Carolina the all-time chief in profession scoring common at 70.66 – the one Gamecock ever with a sub-71 stroke common. His 10 profession top-fives are sixth all-time and his 4 victories are T-2nd most at South Carolina with NeSmith, Keenan Huskey and Carl Paulson.
Sophomore Rafe Reynolds shot 75 (+3) and freshman Nathan Franks shot 77 (+5) to spherical out the counting scores for the Gamecocks. Freshman Gene Zeigler shot 80 (+8).
2022 NCAA Norman Regional R3 Leaderboard
1. No. 1 Oklahoma – 838 (-26)
2. No. 18 Auburn – 848 (-16)
3. No. 25 Ole Miss – 849 (-15)
4. No. 7 Texas – 852 (-12)
5. No. 50 Utah – 860 (-4)
— top-five advance to NCAA Championship at Grayhawk —
6. No. 24 South Carolina – 866 (+2)
7. No. 36 Louisville – 871 (+7)
8. No. 48 San Diego State – 873 (+9)
9. Kansas State – 882 (+18)
10. No. 37 Missouri – 885 (+21)
11. Kent State – 888 (+24)
12. UT-Martin – 910 (+46)
13. Rider – 916 (+52)
2022 NCAA Norman Regional R3 Gamecock Leaderboard
T5. Evans Lewis – 210 (-6)
T28. Ryan Corridor – 219 (+3)
T34. Nathan Franks – 221 (+5)
T47. Rafe Reynolds – 223 (+7)
T56. Gene Zeigler – 226 (+10)
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