Gators Jump Ten Spots on Day Two, Sit Tied for 14th

Today’s spherical of 285 marked the bottom spherical beneath head coach J.C. Deacon on the championships because the earlier low was 286 in each 2016 and 2018 beneath the eighth 12 months head coach. The outing was two strokes away from a low of 283 the Gators shot twice in 2013 on a workforce that featured A.J. Crouch (Korn Ferry Tour), Tyler McCumber (PGA Tour) and T.J. Vogel (Korn Ferry Tour). 

When Florida ended its spherical as a part of the primary wave, it was tied for twenty fifth. Once the second wave wrapped up its play at Grayhawk, the Gators leaped into T14 and climbed 10 spots, probably the most out of any workforce within the discipline because the 285 was tied for the fifth lowest spherical among the many twenty ninth different groups on day two.  

UF is tied for 14th with Oregon and Stanford, if immediately was the minimize for the ultimate spherical of stroke play, all three would play in a sudden-death tiebreaker counting all 5 scores on one gap to take the top-2 two groups.

The Gators tee off the third spherical tomorrow at 2:20 p.m. ET paired with Georgia Tech (T17) and Texas A&M (T17) and look to make the top-15 minimize into the ultimate spherical of stroke play on Monday. Following the fourth and last spherical of stroke play, the top-8 groups will advance to match play. Currently, Florida is three strokes away from one of many match play spots. 

Four Gators improved their first spherical rating as John DuBois (T53) highlighted the day with a hole-out eagle on 18 from 200 yards out with a 7-iron. It marked his fifth eagle of the season, tied for the team-leading with Ricky Castillo. The clutch shot helped DuBois put up a 72 (+2), three strokes higher yesterday. 

Posting the largest enchancment was Castillo (T85). The junior was the one Gator to complete under-par behind a 69 (-1) as he knocked off 12 strokes from a spherical one in every of 81 (+11). He went 2-under on the entrance and held a clear scorecard till a bogey on 16. His birdie on 14 helped Florida transfer into three strokes from the top-15.  The rating was one away from tying his NCAA Championships career-low he set final 12 months in spherical one. The spherical was his team-high seventeenth under-par and eleventh within the 60s.

After a double bogey to begin, Yuxin Lin (T32) discovered his rhythm and rattled off 4 straight birdies on holes 3-6, which helped put the Gators 1-under on the spherical. He had a team-high 5 birdies because the lineup recorded three of them on gap six. Lin posted a tick over par at 71 (+1).

Fred Biondi ended a stroke again from DuBois at 73 (+3) and began the flip with a birdie. He resides in T65. Rounding out the lineup was Quentin Debove at 82 (+12) in T143.  

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