From NYU Athletics

New York University's men's golf team placed fifth at the Williams College Invitational, which was held on Saturday and Sunday, September 12-13, at the Taconic Golf Club in Williamstown, MA.

The Violets finished the competition in fifth place out of 18 teams after shooting 616 overall. NYU finished 115 strokes behind competition-winner Trinity College (601).**

Sophomore Paul Park shot 71 during the second round, finishing the competition with a score of 144 to tie for second place.

"It was a little disappointing today. We thought we would have a pretty good run after yesterday, We didn't play poorly, but we just had a few blow-up holes," said Head Coach Todd Kolean. "On hole 13 over the two-day period we probably shot 17 over-par. We ended up playing that hole poorly and we got double, triple and quadruple bogies on a couple of others, which hurt our score each day."

**Note: Williams College (B) and Williams College (C) do not count in the overall team standings.

HIGHLIGHTS:

- Senior Julius Oppenheimer finished the tournament with an overall score of 157 (78-79), which tied him for 31st.

- Freshman Lucas Oberholtzer (75-84) and sophomore Hartej Gill (77-82) tied for 45th place after each shooting 159.

- Junior Eric Tarakjian, who competed as an individual, shot 78 during the second round to finish the invitational with a score of 156.

"Park played really, really well today and made a run at winning the tournament. Oppenheimer had a solid weekend overall, and Tarakjian - at his first college tournament - probably ended up with the second-lowest total score of our team," added Kolean. "We showed signs of what we are yesterday, and I expect that going forward,that is more indicitiove of how we will play."