Golf Team Finishes 2nd

[UNTLifer]

UNT notebook: UNT men finish second at Rice

Atkinson takes player of the week honors

02/12/2003

By Tim MacMahon / Staff Writer

The North Texas men’s golf team opened the spring season with a second-place finish at the Rice Intercollegiate in Houston Tuesday.

The Mean Green shot a three-round score of 883 to finish 18 strokes behind champion Northwestern and 11 strokes ahead of third-place Missouri in the 13-team tournament.

Zach Atkinson, who finished seventh overall with a three-over 219, had the best individual performance for the Mean Green, earning Denton Record-Chronicle UNT Player of the Week honors.

Thomas Kulcak finished 10th place with a 221, and Freddy Espericueta shot a 224 to finish 15th.

It was the Mean Green’s second consecutive second-place finish. UNT was runner-up at the 49er Collegiate Classic, its final tournament of the fall.

"We started playing like we were supposed to play a long time ago in the latter part of the fall semester," UNT coach Jim Bob Jackson said. "It carried over to start the spring. This is indicative of how we’re supposed to play and are going to play the rest of the spring."

[CMJ]

Remember we're the Notre Dame of golf. At least that WAS a nickname given to us in the 50's.

[EagleChick03]

The golf team is the best, great job guys.