PROVIDENCE, R.I. – USF senior Claudio Correa was named the American Athletic Conference Men's Golf Player of the Week on Wednesday after finishing runner-up at the SunTrust Gator Invitational.
 
Correa helped lead No. 25 USF to a third-place finish in the 16-team field, where the Bulls finished ahead of three ranked opponents.
 
On the par-70 Mark Bostick Golf Course, Correa fired three rounds under par, opening with a 65 before consecutive rounds of 69 to come in 7-under par (65-69-69 – 203), one shot out of a playoff with Missouri’s Hayden Buckley, the 14^th-ranked player in the country.
 
Shooting 5-under par as a team, the third-place finish (278-281-276 – 835) for the Bulls was the program’s fourth top-three finish of the year.
 
USF will be back in action on March 4-6, competing at the Querencia Cabo Collegiate.
 
AROUND THE AMERICAN
UCF competed at the SunTrust Gator Invitational, placing fifth with a team score of -2 (274-284-280 – 838) … At 4-under par, Juuso Kahlos led the Knights … Cincinnati, Houston and SMU all competed at the All-American Intercollegiate in Houston … The host Cougars took fifth overall, finishing ahead of No. 13 Wake Forest … Papito Gonzalez fired three straight rounds of par or better to lead the Coogs … SMU finished 1-under par as a team (286-289-288 – 863) on the Par 72 Golf Club of Houston layout, with Noah Goodwin’s 2-under par pacing the Mustangs … Cincinnati finished in a tie for 14^th in the Bearcats’ spring debut … ECU was ninth at the Puerto Rico Classic, where Blake Taylor finished ahead of nine players ranked in the Golfstat top 100 … Wichita State played its second tournament of the spring at the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate, placing 17^th.