Grant Wynia Signs With SIUE

We have signed our second student-athlete for next year.  Grant Wynia, of Sioux Falls, SD, is the second high school state champion to sign to be part of our 2010-11 recruiting class.  Grant shot 73-74 in awful late fall weather conditions at Westward Ho Country Club to win the state individual crown.  His Roosevelt Rough Riders also captured the state team crown last year.  He was named first team all-state and academic all-conference.  His great fall season also saw a pair of runner up finishes at the GDC conference meet and at the Yankton Invitational.  Grant will be a very good player for us and we are very excited for him to add to our depth next year. He is also a great student who is a great person on and off the golf course.

Grant was also a 2 year starter for the Boys Basketball team at Roosevelt.  His older brother Adam, was a two time all conference player at Belmont University and his other brother, Brian, is a Sophomore golfer at South Dakota State.  We are excited to have Grant join us next year!

Coach Brown

A Great Experience

We have returned from the Crooked Stick Invitational and it was fantastic.  We wish we could have played better, but with such a strong field, we are happy with our top ten finish.  Our last round was highlighted by a 73 by Nick Nuzzo, who started 3 over after 5 holes and played the rest of the course 1 under par.  Another big step for us was beating a big ten school the last round of the tournament.  We clipped Wisconsin by 2 strokes the last 18 holes.  This is a great sign for things to come at SIUE!

Crooked Stick Invitational....Follow us on Golfstat Live again

I have received our team information for this coming tournament at Crooked Stick and what a great field.  The teams participating are: Indiana, Wisconsin, Middle Tennessee, Wichita State, Ball State, Purdue, Minnesota, Xavier, Illinois, IUPUI, Butler and SIUE. This tournament will also be on Golfstat Live againthis week. We are having our last qualifier of the year today to see who will be playing in our five spot this week at Indiana.

We have had a great year and hope we can play well this week to top it off.  We have moved to our highest ranking on Golfstat and currently have the number 1 individual scoring average in the conference, Neal McCarty 72.3.  We have had an individual in the top 5 in four straight tournaments this spring and have had two team top 5 finishes as well.  The hard work is really paying off!

I have sent out information to all of our Pledge for Birdies supporters on how their pledge turned out.  In the 8 tournaments that counted toward the Pledge for Birdies we made 263 birdies!  This money has helped us fill out our schedule for this year and start building a great schedule for next year.  We again want to thank everyone who has supported us this year!

Coach Brown

Another Great Tournament

We are back from Jonesboro and we are excited about our finish.  It was a tough field filled with highly ranked southern schools.  We placed 12th out of 18 teams and this morning moved up 25 places in the rankings because of the strong field.  Neal McCarty again paced us with another great tournament, finishing 3rd with rounds of 68-73-70.  Alex Knoll also had a really good tournament as he placed in the top third of the field with rounds of 74-70-76.  Alex is really starting to play well and hopefully can take it into next week.  I forgot the camera at home this week so I do not have any pictures of the course we played but it was nice and the hospitality was second to none.  Arkansas State really put on a great tournament and hope we can play again next season.  Here are the final results:

	41 Middle Tennessee St.	-6	F	-6	287	289	282	858
2	Central Arkansas	-4	F	+7	285	280	295	860
3	Stephen F. Austin St	-3	F	+1	283	289	289	861
4	Louisiana-LaFayette	E	F	-4	290	290	284	864
5	Illinois State U.	+3	F	E	286	293	288	867
6	Arkansas-Little Rock	+5	F	+5	286	290	293	869
7	UMKC	+7	F	+6	286	291	294	871
8	Austin Peay State U.	+11	F	+4	295	288	292	875
9	Missouri State	+15	F	+11	289	291	299	879
10	Jacksonville St.	+19	F	+15	295	285	303	883
11	Louisiana-Monroe	+24	F	+2	305	293	290	888
12	SIU Edwardsville	+28	F	+11	298	295	299	892
13	Arkansas State U.	+30	F	+14	307	285	302	894
14	Tennessee-Martin	+31	F	+14	306	287	302	895
15	Troy Univ.	+32	F	+18	296	294	306	896
16	Southern Illinois U.	+34	F	+14	298	298	302	898
17	Meridian CC	+36	F	+9	301	302	297	900
18	De Paul University	+42	F	+8	309	301	296	906

Follow us on Golfstat LIVE

I just found out that our next two tournaments will be covered by Golfstat and live results will be posted throughout the day.  To find the scores go to www.golfstat.com and look for live scoring.  The name of the tournament is called ASU RedWolf Intercollegiate.  Our lineup is already up and this is a great way for all of our followers to watch. 

Coach Brown

Neal McCarty takes TSU Individual title

Neal shot a final round 64 to capture a 3 shot win at the Tennessee State Big Blue Intercollegiate.  Neal was 6 under for the tournament with rounds of 70-70-64.  As a team we finished in 6th place out of 15 teams and missed 5th by one shot and only missed 2nd by 6.  We are really starting to play well and we will need to continue to play well as we have our two toughest tournaments of the year coming up.  We had many other accomplishments last week at TSU with Alex Knoll and Nick Nuzzo setting new season lows shooting 72's.  Also, Tom Callahan tied his season and career low at SIUE with a second round 70.  We also had our second hole in one of the year as Clark Schmidt knocked it in for a 1 on Hole 6 during his first round 75.  Clark used a 7 iron from 174.  He was obviously really excited and gave him his second hole in one in the past six months.  Clark also had a hole in one at our home course of Sunset Hills this past fall during a qualifying round!

As we move on to the final two tournaments we are going to see some really good golf teams.  This weekend in Arkansas we will see two teams in the top 50 in the nation and 8 teams ranked in the top 125.  The confirmed teams are: Arkansas State, Ark- Little Rock, Austin Peay, Central Arkansas, Depaul, Illinois State, Jacksonville State, Louisana-Layfette, Louisana-Monroe, Meridan CC, Middle Tennessee State, UMKC, Missouri State, Stephen F. Austin, SIUE, UT-Martin, Troy. 

Coach Brown

2nd Straight Top 5

We are excited about our second straight top 5 finish last week in Macomb, IL, hosted by Western Illinois.  Neal McCarty placed third overall giving us a top three individual finisher two tournaments in a row, as Clark Schmidt earned that honor last week.

We are now off to Nashville, TN, to compete in the Tennessee State Big Blue Invitational beginning on Monday.  The tournament has moved from last year and will be played on an Arnold Palmer design, King's Creek.  It looks like a great course playing about 6850 and playing as a par 70.  The field looks like this-
Alabama State, Belmont, Dayton, Evansville, John A. Logan, Lipscomb, Murray State, Morehead State, SIUE, Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech, Texas Pan American, UT Martin and Winston Salem State.

It looks like great weather too!

Coach Brown