NCAA Men's Golf Championships 2016: Results, Leaderboard Standings from Friday
Just a couple of days after the Washington Huskies wrapped up their first-ever women's golf national title, the 2016 NCAA Men's Golf Championships kicked off in Eugene, Oregon, on Friday.
The tournament began with a stroke-play format that will decide the individual national champion while whittling the field down from 30 teams to eight. Once the quarterfinals are set, match play will take over to decide the team national champion.
Here are the leaderboards for both the individual and team competitions:
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| T1 | Nahum Mendoza III | San Diego St. | -3 |
| T1 | Will Starke | South Carolina | -3 |
| T1 | Theo Humphrey | Vanderbilt | -3 |
| T4 | Chelso Barrett | TCU | -2 |
| T4 | Justin Suh | USC | -2 |
| T4 | Kolton Crawford | Arkansas | -2 |
| T7 | K.K. Limbhasut | California | -1 |
| T7 | Paul Barjon | TCU | -1 |
| T7 | Lee McCoy | Georgia | -1 |
| T7 | David Boote | Stanford | -1 |
| T7 | Riccardo Michelini | San Diego St. | -1 |
| T7 | Claudio Correa | South Florida | -1 |
| T7 | Sebastian Crampton | California | -1 |
| T7 | Sepp Straka | Georgia | -1 |
| T7 | Will Zalatoris | Wake Forest | -1 |
| T1 | No. 21 Arkansas | +2 |
| T1 | No. 44 TCU | +2 |
| T3 | No. 22 San Diego St. | +3 |
| T3 | No. 3 USC | +3 |
| T3 | No. 8 Vanderbilt | +3 |
| T6 | No. 5 Oklahoma St. | +5 |
| T6 | No. 13 Florida St. | +5 |
| T8 | No. 12 LSU | +6 |
| T8 | No. 16 Florida | +6 |
| T10 | No. 19 South Carolina | +7 |
| T10 | No. 11 California | +7 |
| T12 | No. 2 Texas | +9 |
| T12 | No. 28 Kentucky | +9 |
| T12 | No. 14 Wake Forest | +9 |
| T15 | No. 4 Illinois | +10 |
| T15 | No. 17 Alabama | +10 |
| T15 | No. 18 Oklahoma | +10 |
| T15 | No. 7 Arizona St. | +10 |
| T19 | No. 50 Louisville | +10 |
| T19 | No. 20 Oregon | +11 |
| T19 | No. 15 South Florida | +11 |
| T19 | No. 6 Georgia | +11 |
| T19 | No. 10 Clemson | +11 |
| T24 | No. 1 Stanford | +11 |
| T24 | No. 23 Virginia | +12 |
| 26 | No. 26 Baylor | +12 |
| T27 | No. 9 Auburn | +14 |
| T27 | No. 33 UAB | +14 |
| 29 | No. 35 Houston | +16 |
| 30 | No. 32 Purdue | +19 |
San Diego State's Nahum Mendoza III, the 27th-ranked golfer in the nation, is tied with South Carolina's Will Starke and Vanderbilt's Theo Humphrey for the early lead.
After three birdies on his start at the back nine were canceled out by three bogeys, Mendoza made a strong turn onto the front nine with three more birdies.
Starke recorded a pair of birdies on both the front and back nine, while Humphrey saw two of his five birdies canceled out by bogeys.
San Diego State and Vanderbilt, which both posted scores of three over par Friday, are tied for third behind Arkansas and TCU, which are tied for first with an overall score of two over.
Friday wasn't kind to some of the top seeds, both in the individual and team competitions. The nation's No. 1 team, Stanford, recorded a combined score of 12 over, which has it in a tie for 24th.
Stanford's team features the nation's No. 1 golfer, Maverick McNealy, who shot a six-over 76 on Friday and is in a tie for 126th.
No. 2-ranked Texas didn't fare much better with a nine-over on the day. In fact, only two of the top five teams in the the nation are in the top 10 on the leaderboard. Individually, five of the top six golfers on the leaderboard aren't even ranked, which should create some drama if the trend continues throughout the weekend.
Stats courtesy of GolfStatResults.com.
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