PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The American Athletic Conference has announced the winners of the league’s final weekly men’s golf honors for the ninth week of the spring golf season.
 
MEN’S GOLF PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Drake Hull – UConn – RS-Jr. – Rutland, Vt.
Hull captured the first tournament victory of his college career Sunday, topping a 78-player field to win individual medalist honors at the Rutherford Intercollegiate, played at the Penn State Blue Course.
The redshirt-junior began Sunday's final round as part of a four-way tie for third place on the leaderboard, but fired a 3-under par 68 – his third straight sub-par round of the tournament – in tough, rainy conditions, to not only break free of the tie, but also pass the golfers who had held first and second place. Hull's 5-under 208 (70-70-68) won the tourney by one stroke over David Hicks of William & Mary, the first outright individual win by a UConn player this season. The 208 total equaled the lowest tourney score of his career (also a 208 at the Doc Gimmler Invitational) and also hiked his total of par-or-better rounds to 19 this season and 35 for his career. It was Hull's third top-10 finish and sixth top-20 performance this season, giving him five and 10 career totals, respectively. Hull, who led the field in scoring on the Par 3 holes (-2), sparked the Huskies to a fourth-place finish in the 13-team event with an aggregate 11-over 290-282-291=863, eight strokes behind tournament champion Penn State. It is UConn's sixth Top Five Finish in 10 events this season. UConn has finished only one tournament lower than seventh.
 
AROUND THE AMERICAN
ECU finished 10^th overall, as the final round of competition at the Stitch Intercollegiate was canceled due to inclement weather Saturday at MacGregor Downs Country Club. The Pirates shot 16-over-par 592 (295-297) … USF freshman Luke Gifford and junior Ryoto Furuya led the Bulls with top-20 finishes in their regular season finale at the Stitch Intercollegiate. Gifford tied for 15^th place in the 84-player field at 1-under, just two shots outside the top 10 at MacGregor Downs Country Club (par 72, 6,973 yards). The Boca Raton, Fla., native finished strong with a 2-under 70 in the second round that continued Saturday after play was suspended Friday evening because of weather. Furuya carded consecutive rounds of 72 and tied for 20th place. The Alpharetta, Ga., native led the Bulls with seven birdies in his sixth top-25 finish of the season … Cincinnati senior Austin Squires finished the Boilermaker Invitational tying for ninth place at 4-under 140 (71, 69) as rain washed out final-round action Sunday at the Kampen Golf Course (Par 72; 7,465 yards) in West Lafayette, Ind. It marks the fifth Top 10 finish for Squires in 2018-19 … Houston sophomore Alexander Frances tied for 12^th with a score of even-par 216 to lead the Cougars during the Final Round of the Bayou City Collegiate Classic on Tuesday afternoon at Golfcrest Country Club. The Cougars posted their lowest round of the tournament at 290 and finished sixth with a 54-hole total of 876 … Shooting 1-under par in the final round of the Bayou City Collegiate, Wichita State’s Zac Owens finished in a tie for second after compiling a 4-under par score. Owens posted his lowest 54-hole score of the season with a 212 and came up with his second highest finish of the season, claiming his second top 10 finish of the year. The Woodward, Okla., native was only one stroke back from the lead, with Collin Clark from UTSA claiming the individual title with a 211 score …  Isaiah Jackson fired a 2-under 70 and Guillaume Chevalier added a 1-under 71 to lead Memphis to an eighth-place finish Tuesday in the Old Waverly Collegiate Championship. As a team, the Tigers shot 289 for a three-round total of 867, which was 3-over-par. ULM, the leader after each of the first two rounds, maintained its advantage Tuesday to win the title by one stroke over Ole Miss and three strokes over Vanderbilt, the nation's fourth-ranked program.  


Golfstat Rankings
Men’s Team Top-100 Rankings
No. 38 USF
No. 56 SMU
No. 77 UCF
No. 88 Memphis
No. 89 ECU
No. 95 Houston
 
Men’s Individual Top-100 Rankings
No. 27 – Noah Goodwin, SMU
No. 54 – Albin Bergstrom, USF
No. 64 – Austin Squires, Cincinnati
No. 74 – Mac Meissner, SMU


Upcoming Men’s Schedule                                       

Sunday, April 21
American Athletic Conference Championship	Palm Harbor, Fla. (Copperhead at Innisbrook)
Monday, April 22
American Athletic Conference Championship	Palm Harbor, Fla. (Copperhead at Innisbrook)
Tuesday, April 23
American Athletic Conference Championship	Palm Harbor, Fla. (Copperhead at Innisbrook)