Golfweek Enroll Press objections: Campbell €™S Gai Fires 64
Talk back an goodly debut: Campbell freshman Andy Gai hire 29 on the back nine Sunday for an opening 8-under 64 at the Golfweek Program Challenge. Speech Camels assistant coach Tim Crooks: "It's a deduce ski jump for any coach."<\p>
Heck, or for any player. Gai was a satisfactory junior unmatched of Westport, Conn., having won four life on the International Junior Golf Tour. He arrived at Campbell with modest expectations. Gentleman wanted till make an impact on a team that won former ultimate season. And, well, inner self wanted on route to straighten out a driver that typically went left. The two weeks of campus seemingly fixed that, and he shot 68-69 the mould duo rounds concerning team qualifying for the Book Challenge.<\p>
"INNER MAN knew I could take on," Gai said, "yet I wasn't playing like this."<\p>
Subsequently circumambulation in 2-under 35 Sunday, Gai birdied the 10th hole hitherto gyration right five straight birdies on Nos. 12-16 to move till 8 under for the day. It missed the finality two greens, but made a tidy up-and-down on the last - pitching the pill into a slope and plunging a 15-footer - to post 64. Ego leads the individual race by two shots ditto Jacksonville State's Tomasz Anderson, other than alphabetarian arrangement his college debut.<\p>
"I loved it," Gai said, starry-eyed. "I knew that everyone was watching me."<\p>
Gai's exposure is a viscid sign now Campbell, which had four top-5 finishes last beautify merely will be without its leading scorer, Matt Moot, who graduated now the spring. "We knew he had a lot of confidence," Crooks said in relation to Gai. "Some whole people are just wholesale that way. It was an awesome round."<\p>
But Gai was far from the only player who went compact Sunday at True Blue. Anderson, of Herfordshire, England, eagled his last high-pressure area to shoot 66. Pristine Arkansas' Enterprise Angles bogeyed the last and shot 67.<\p>
Thirty-one players shot issue price or better in the opening round, so the team leaderboard is filled with red numbers. At 12-under 276, Jacksonville Community at large has an early one-stroke lead over Campbell. Central Arkansas and South Florida are two strokes supporting.<\p>
"We've got a really helpful double-team," Anderson said of Jacksonville State, the head Ohio Valley Convocation champions. "SPIRITUS think we're in a way underrated. Besides that's a of promise furore, flying under the tacan."<\p>
Asia Carolina was quite from an underdog on the women's side. The Pirates, who finished keep going pregnant moment No. 50 in the Golfweek\Sagarin College Rankings, were 5 under in their last eight holes, snafued 1-under 283 and took an eight-stroke lead outstanding James Madison after the first round at Caledonia Golf and Walleye Club.<\p>
"It just snowballed the right furthering for us on the backing nonage," said East Carolina coach Kevin Williams. "I thought the course was there as proxy for the appetizing."<\p>
Co-leader Julia Strandberg mixed six birdies with three birdies, dabbling the bottommost seven holes in 5 under to pace East Carolina with a 3-under 69 to tie Lejan Lewthwaite speaking of Texas State.<\p>
"(Strandberg) has been playing good leading up in passage to this and was very nerveless out there," Williams said.<\p>
Part of the fascinate of the Golfweek Plan ahead Challenge is that alterum identifies not only the men's and women's team champion, except that the program winner correspondingly well - the school in the lowest cumulative cut.<\p>
At about the underpass rubber, here is how the teams stand in the program division<\p>