[LUDad]

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Play starts tomorrow morning. LU tends to start slow and moves up the board as play proceeds. Be nice if they don't dig an early hole they have to climb out of. Top five advance to Nationals.

[SumItUp]

We start off on the back nine at 11:30am today. Our team is grouped with the Alabama and Tennessee teams. Here's the lineup:
#5 - Alexandre Fuchs
#4 - Jonathan Yaun
#3 - Kieran Vincent
#2 - Ervin Chang
#1 - Gabe Lench

[adam42381]

This is a solid field, but Liberty should be able to advance if they play their game. Teams ranked ahead of #22 Liberty:

4. Vanderbilt
9. Duke
16. Georgia

[prototype]

We need to get there 2 days earlier and simulate the start of the tournament. Chang must not be able to handle the moment right away...

[LUDad]

Liberty finishes the day at +10 and is tied for 6th place (one spot outside of advancing to finals). Typical first day for LU. Look for good things to come. LU has a history of slow starts this year.

#45 Kentucky is tied with LU but they have one player at +8 so they have no margin for error or a blowup by another player (top four out of five scores count). Unranked Memphis is in 5th place 2 strokes ahead of LU however, they have one player at +7, and two at +5, again, providing no cover for a blow-up. #33 Tennessee is in 4th place at +6. However, they were ahead of LU by 11 strokes after the first day of the Mason Randolph tournament and ended up finishing 1 stroke behind LU.

[olldflame]

With Erving Chang off to a hot -3 start, we are -1 as a team so far on the day, and have moved into a 3 way tie for the all-important 5th spot with Memphis and Nevada. Chang is even par and tied for 6th individually.

[olldflame]

We have now moved into a tie for 4th with Tennessee!

[olldflame]

We are burning up the course!
Now tied for 3rd with Duke.
-5 on the day as a team. Next best is UGA at -1, playing on their home course.

Maybe the most important fact is that we are now 5 strokes up on the 6th place teams.

[olldflame]

About midway now and we are tied for 4th, 4 strokes ahead of 6th place Memphis.

[olldflame]

Still tied for 4th, but now only 3 ahead of Nevada in 6th. Duke has been the hot team and is now -6 on the day in second.

[olldflame]

With all of our players now on the back 9, we are alone in 4th and 5 strokes up on KY and TN in 6th.

[olldflame]

Ouch. We just dropped 3 shots to par and are now in 5th and only 2 ahead of Kentucky in 6th and 3 ahead of CAMPBELL in 7th.

[olldflame]

Double ouch. We are now tied for 5th with KY and only a stroke ahead of Campbell in 7th.

[olldflame]

Georgia, Duke and Vandy have separated themselves from the field. The next 7 teams are now all within just 5 shots for the last 2 berths in the final. We are currently in 5th, 1 shot ahead of KY and TN and 1 behind Nevada.

[olldflame]

Making a mini-rally now, and are tied with Nevada for 4th and 2 ahead of TN in 6th.

[LUDad]

Par is your friend.

[olldflame]

ASUN tourney winner N Florida is in a similar position, tied for 5th in the Louisville region.

[olldflame]

Par is your friend.

It's certainly not the enemy. I'd like our chances if we can play even par from here out.

[olldflame]

Now alone in 4th, but still only a 2 stroke cushion over TN in 6th.

And there go the 2 strokes. Tied for 5th again.

[olldflame]

TN drops a shot and we are alone in 5th again.

[olldflame]

We are now in a 3 way tie for 5th with Memphis and TN. We need to finish ahead of the Vols because I believe the tiebreaker is the 5th score, and they have us there by a pretty wide margin. We would win a tiebreaker over Memphis.

[olldflame]

I'm afraid our only friend now is birdies. We dropped a shot and are now in 7th and need to pick up 2 shots on the Vols. I don't know who is still on the course. a couple of our guys have finished.

[olldflame]

Looks like it's not gunna happen.

[olldflame]

Spoke too soon! We are now tied for 4th and I think we win tiebreakers over both Nevada and Memphis!

[olldflame]

Now a 3 way tie for 5th as Nevada picks up a stroke. Vincent and Lench are still on the course. We need to finish ahead of the Vols.