Chaps Finish With Two In Top Five

Argentinians Cosme Beamonte (left) and Facundo Garcia (right) pose wit the top-five finish plaques

SAN ANTONIO (March 22, 2011) – Lubbock Christian University’s Cosme Beamonte and Facundo Garcia each finished in the top-five and LCU finished in third place at the Our Lady of the Lake University Classic hosted at Golf Club of Texas at Briggs Ranch.

Beamonte finished in third place with a low-round total of 69 in the second round to follow an opening round 74 for a total of 143.  His 69 was the only sub-70 round shot of the entire tournament.  He co-led the tournament shooting even on par-four holes and was tied for second with eight birdies.  Beamonte and Facundo were tied co-leading all players with a -4 on par five holes.  Facundo finished in fourth place with a 145.  He followed a 74 with a 71 in the second round.  He led the event with 25 pars.  Justin Aldous shot a 154, splitting with a pair of 77 for an 18^th place finish.  Michael Milliken (80,78 = 158) finished in 26^th and Niel DuPreez (80,79 = 159) finished tied in 28^th.

LCU was in last place (fifth place) after the opening day of play, but the Chaps responded from an opening round 305 with a 295 for the biggest second round improvement.  The Chaps led the tournament in pars (112) and they co-led in par-five scoring with a -5.  With a total score of 600, LCU finished 10 strokes ahead of Houston-Victoria and eight strokes behind No. 10 Our Lady of the Lake.

Western Texas won the event with a 590 (287,303) and Nick Flynn led the team with an individual tournament best 142 (70, 72) on the par-72 7,022-yard layout.