PAUMA VALLEY, Calif. – Albert Hansson and Carson Kim each shot 1-under-par 71 for the final round, as No. 21 Georgia Tech posted a 4-over-par score of 288 as a team and tied for 9th place at the Pauma Valley Invitational.
Hansson, a freshman from Fiskebäckskil, Sweden, also was Tech’s top finisher individually, tying for 13th place with a 3-under-par total of 207. The Yellow Jackets finished 54 holes at 10-over-par 862, tied with No. 2 Arizona State, No, 15 San Diego State and San Diego, 37 strokes behind No. 7 LSU.
The tournament, being conducted for just the second time, featured a 15-team field, including nine teams ranked in the Scoreboard Powered by Clippd Top-25 rankings and 13 squads in the top 50. Pauma Valley is just 35 miles East of Carlsbad, where the NCAA Championship is held at the Omni LaCosta Resort and Spa.
Tech returns to action April 14-15 when the Yellow Jackets compete in the Ford Intercollegiate in Richmond Hill, Ga.
TECH LINEUP – Hansson played a steady final round at Pauma Valley Country Club with two birdies and one bogey, while Kim, a sophomore from Yorba Linda, Calif., had three birdies and two bogeys on his card.
Sophomore Kale Fontenot (Lafayette, Ind.) and redshirt junior Benjamin Reuter (Naarden, The Netherlands) provided the Jackets their other two counting scores, each with a 3-over-par 74.
Junior Hiroshi Tai (Singapore) did not count Tuesday after posting, but was Tech’s next highest finisher, tied for 33rd place overall at 3-over-par 213. Fontenot tied for 67th (220, +10), and Reuter tied for 69th (221, +11).
Junior Aidan Tran (Fresno, Calif.) competed as an individual, posting a 1-over-par 72 Tuesday and thing for 56th place (218, +8).
LEADERBOARD SUMMARY – No. 7 LSU shot 11-under-par Tuesday to finish at 27-under-par 825 and cruised to a 10-stroke victory over No 4 Texas (835, -17). The Tigers placed three individuals among the top 5 on the leaderboard, while the Longhorns had the individual champion and one other in the top 10.
No. 5 Oklahoma State (841, -11) finished third, followed by No. 13 Illinois (842, -10) and No. 30 Tennessee (847, -5). No other teams finished the tournament under par.
Christian Maas of Texas took medalist honors after carding a 5-under-par 66 Tuesday. He finished 54 holes at 9-under-par 201, one stroke better than LSU’s Algot Kleen (202, -8). Jay Mendell and Gunnlaugur Arni Sveinsson of LSU, Jase Summy of Oklahoma tied for third at 203 (-7).