The Texas Tech men’s golf team moved up to fourth place on Mar. 8 after posting the best second-round score at The Hayt tournament, held at Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. The Red Raiders shot a 13-under-par 275 in the second round, improving from a tie for ninth and entering the final round at 14-under 562.
This performance places Texas Tech behind No. 21 Charlotte, which leads with an 18-under 558, and just one stroke behind both No. 6 LSU and No. 2 Auburn, who are tied for second at 15-under.
The team’s advancement was led by Adam Bresnu’s bogey-free six-under-par round of 66, Tim Wiedemeyer’s four-under-par 68, and Connor Graham’s three-under-par 69. All three players are now inside the top twenty individually heading into Monday’s final round. Graham is tied for the individual lead at seven-under-par (137) alongside Virginia’s Ben James and Charlotte’s Seb Cave in a field of ninety competitors.
Bresnu recovered from an opening-round score of seventy-five by making five birdies on the front nine and finishing with seven consecutive pars. Both Wiedemeyer and Graham recorded eagles on the par-five eighth hole; Wiedemeyer is tied for fourteenth overall at four under par (140), while Bresnu sits tied for nineteenth at three under par (141). Ben Gregg is even par through two rounds and tied for forty-first place, while Brady McHenry is tied for sixty-first at three over par.
The final round of The Hayt will begin Monday morning, with Texas Tech scheduled to tee off at eight thirty-three a.m. Central Daylight Time.
