EATONTON, Ga. - South Alabama men's golf landed in tenth place at the Linger Longer Invitational after concluding Sunday's final round.

Tournament play began at 8:30 a.m. on Friday morning, when the talented 18-team field highlighted by six nationally ranked programs tee'd it up at the beautiful Great Waters at Reynolds Lake Oconee golf course. Round one opened with the Jaguars paired with No. 11 Vanderbilt and No. 44 Kentucky, when it shot a 288 team score after 18 holes (E).

Saturday's second round paired the Jags with No. 18 Charlotte and UNC Greensboro. Tim Kretschmann led the way for South Alabama when he landed in a tie for fourteenth individually after 36 holes.

The three-day tournament ended with an even-par Jaguar team score (288). Samir Davidov carded his longest stretch of birdies of the season thus far with five consecutive on holes No. 11 through No. 15. Kretschmann landed inside the top-20 individually for the third time this season.

No. 35 Georgia ran away with the tournament victory after firing an unbelievable 48-under par team score (816). The Bulldogs led second place No. 16 Alabama by a 21 stroke difference.



TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
Event (host): Linger Longer Invitational (Kennesaw State & Mercer)
Dates: March 20-22 (Friday-Sunday)
Course: Great Waters at Reynolds Lake Oconee (Par 72, 7,436 yds)



SOUTH ALABAMA SCORES
T19. Tim Kretschmann, 69-72-72 (-3); T37. Hugo Thyr, 74-71-73 (+2); T45. Samir Davidov, 75-74-71 (+4); T57. Josh Hill, 70-75-76 (+5); T77. Filip Svendsen, 78-74-72 (+8).



QUOTED
Head Coach Ben Hannan
"There were a lot of positives from this week and in stretches we played a lot of good golf. We're showing definite signs of progression as a team, we just want to be able to put it together for all 3 rounds. Individually, Tim bounced back from Lafayette with 3 rounds of par or better, along with Samir also getting back into red numbers in round 3. We're looking forward to playing at home again next week."



UP NEXT
The Jaguars return home to host its third tournament this season at the Mobile Bay Intercollegiate at Magnolia Grove Golf Club, March 30-31.



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