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Illinois leads FAU Spring Break Championship

Eastern Michigan’s Cam Burke fires a 64 to lead by one.

Originally published on 3/28/2009

DELRAY BEACH - Teams battled windy conditions during the first round of the inaugural FAU Spring Break Championship held at Gleneagles Country Club (6,722 Yards/PAR 71) in Delray Beach.

The Florida Atlantic University men’s golf team (299) is in 12th place after the first of three rounds, several strokes ahead of Northern Illinois University (306) and St. John’s University (310). The University of Illinois (277) leads the tournament at seven under par, three strokes ahead of second place Ohio State University (280).

The FAU men were led by Ben Silverman (72), who is one over par and tied for 19th. Kelly McHugh (74, T-32nd) was FAU’s second scorer while Will Cottle (76, T-53rd), Justin Thompson (77, T-61st) and Sterling Searcy (79, T-71st) completed FAU’s scoring five. David Ziglar (71) finished in the top 20 but is one of six Owls competing as an individual, meaning their score does not contribute to FAU’s total.

Several tournament highlights after day one include Memphis’ Jordan Payne’s hole-in-one on the eighth hole. Eastern Michigan’s Cam Burke (64) leads the individual competition at seven under par as Illinois’ Scott Langley (65) and Luke Guthrie (66) join Ohio State’s Vaughn Snyder (66) in the chase pack.

The second round of the tournament will tee-off Saturday at 11:30 a.m. and FAU will tee-off at 12:42. Live results can be found on golfstat.com.

Team Scoring

1. University of Illinois - (277)
2. Ohio State University – (280)
3. Eastern Michigan University – (283)
4. Northwestern University – (286)
5. University of Michigan – (287)
T 6. University of Iowa – (291)
T 6. University of Wisconsin - (291)
T 8. University of Notre Dame – (294)
T 8. University of Memphis – (294)
10. University of Missouri – (297)
11. Marquette University - (298)
12. Florida Atlantic University – (299)
13. Northern Illinois University – (306)
14. St. John’s University – (310)