Feb. 14, 2011
Battle At the Beach - Day 2 Results in PDF Format
The San Diego State men's golf team moved from ninth into a tie for seventh place with Arkansas at 18-over 718 after the second round of the 54-hole the Battle at the Beach tournament Monday in Newport Coast, Calif. The Aztecs trimmed six strokes off their day one total to card the fourth-best round of the afternoon with a 6-over 356 to move four strokes out of the top five at the par-70, 6,900-yard The Resort at Pelican Hill.
SDSU junior J.J. Spaun (San Dimas, Calif.) improved from 15th into sixth place with his 69, including two bogeys, three birdies and 13 pars. Spaun has eight total birdies for the tournament and is in a five-way tie at 1-under 139, just two strokes out of third place.
While Spaun went up nine spots in the second round, classmate Alex Kang (Oak Park, Calif.) went the opposite direction, dropping into 22nd place with his 3-over 73. Kang had four birdies, but also three bogeys and two double bogeys on the second and 14th holes.
Three of Aztecs' other four golfers all made gains on the individual leaderboard, as junior Colin Featherstone (Fallbrook, Calif.) jumped from 37th to 30th with his second consecutive 72, and freshman Todd Baek (Auckland, New Zealand) cut a whopping 10 strokes off his day-one total by matching Spaun's 1-under 69, highlighted by a 2-under back nine to move from 76th all the way into 49th. Senior Johan Carlsson (Gothenburg, Sweden) went from 68th to 57th with his second-round 73, while sophomore Tom Berry (New Haw, England) is tied with Baek for 49th with an 8-over 148.
San Diego's Kenneth McCready continues to hold the individual lead, moving his one-stroke advantage out to three at 8-under 132. The Toreros also rank first in the team race for the second day in a row at 1-over 701, two strokes better than Washington, which had a second-round 2-over 352 to move to 3-over 703.
The third and final round will begin Tuesday with a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. PT.
Live results are available on golfstat.com as well as goaztecs.com. Scores with relation to par, Feb. 14, 2011, at the Battle at the Beach, played at the par-70, 6,900-yard The Resort at Pelican Hill in Newport Coast, Calif.
Team Scoring Through 36 holes (Top 5 of 13 teams and SDSU)
1 San Diego 348-353-701 (+1)
2 Washington 351-352-703 (+3)
3 UCLA 353-353-706 (+6)
4 Tennessee 355-358-713 (+13)
5 Arizona St. 351-363-714 (+14)
7 San Diego State 362-356-718 (+18)
Top Five Individuals (Top 3 of 82 players)
1 Kenneth McCready, USD 65-67-132 (-8)
2 Connor Driscoll, UCLA 67-68-135 (-5)
3 Patrick Cantlay, UCLA 68-69-137 (-3)
San Diego State Golfers
T6 J.J. Spaun 70-69-139 (-1)
T22 Alex Kang 70-73-143 (+3)
T30 Colin Featherstone 72-72-144 (+4)
T49 Todd Baek 79-69-148 (+8)
T49 Tom Berry 73-75-148 (+8)
T57 Johan Carlsson 77-73-150 (+10)