Duke fired a team score of 276 yesterday to finish in a tie for third in the Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate. The score was the lowest one-day total of the tournament, and it helped the No. 20 Blue Devils move up five spots on the team leaderboard, helping them recover from a lackluster second day.
No. 12 LSU won the tournament by shooting a 3-under combined total of 849 over the three day event. No. 6 Augusta State finished one stroke off the pace, while No. 11 Auburn tied Duke with an 855.
Duke was paced in the final round by Brinson Paolini’s 67, the best individual score of the day. The sophomore opened with a birdie on the 485-yard par-four No. 1, then eagled the next hole. He would go on to shoot a 31 on the front nine.
Paolini finished with a one-over 36 on the back to finish the weekend two-over par.
Julian Suri almost topped his classmate on Tuesday, shooting a 68. Suri started his round with three birdies on the first six holes before cooling off and playing the remaining 12 holes at even-par. He wound up with a tournament score of six over-par, overcoming a tough first day by posting even-par and three under-par rounds to close out.
Tim Gornik played a very consistent round on day three with 16 pars and one bogey and one birdie. Gornik finished the tournament with a total score of 216, three over-par.
Paolini, Suri and Gornik’s scores all ultimately fell behind Wes Roach’s, however. The senior shot a team-best 69 on day one, followed that up with 71 on Monday, then finished with a solid one-under 70 on the final day of action. His combined score of 210 was good for sixth overall. Roach has played well as of late— he went 3-1 with a win over the NCAA individual medalist at the Collegiate Match Play Championship last week.
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