UA Notepad: Wildcats finish out millennium with 6th
place finish
Recap from the Nelson Invitational
By Ryan Finley
GolfArizona.com Staff Writer
TUCSON (Nov. 2, 1999) - The UA men’s team couldn’t finish
off the 1900’s with a win, but a 6th-place finish cemented
the Wildcats’ odds of starting the next one off on the right
foot…as long as senior Derek Gillespie doesn’t decide
to transfer.
Just one week after the Arizona women finished disappointingly
in Palo Alto, Calif., home of the Stanford Cardinal, the UA men
came home with a 6th-place finish in the Nelson Invitational.
The Wildcats, led by senior Derek Gillespie, finished the tournament
with a total of 860, just 13 strokes shy of the host Cardinal,
who took the tournament with an 847 finish.
Individually, Tulsa’s Martin Miritz won the tournament,
legging out Northwestern’s Jess Daley with a 203, 10 over
par.
Individually, the Wildcats were led by senior Derek Gillespie, who
led UA with a 4th-place, 210 score, three strokes under par. Ricky
Barnes finished just one stroke behind Gillespie, but, strangely,
came in 10th place. Cody Beyer finished four-over par with a 217.
Reid Hatley logged a 227 for the weekend, coming in 83rd. Patrick
Norris finished 97th overall, last for the Wildcats with an 18-over
par 231.
The worst round for any Wildcat belonged to Norris, whose second-round
80 butchered an otherwise-tremendous first round score of 73.
The best round belonged to the most reliable Wildcat, Gillespie,
who racked a Wildcat-high 68 in the first round.
The Nelson Invitational brought an end to the fall portion of
the Wildcat golf season. UA begins its spring “semester”
at home January 31st and February 1st at Tucson’s Raven Golf
Club. The Ping Arizona International will be the UA’s first
opportunity to improve on an otherwise unsteady first half.
The Wildcats finished off the tournament with a 289-279-292,
for a total of 860 over the Par-71, 6,756 yard Stanford Golf Course.
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