Pawleys Island, SC – Playing in his first tournament for the Austin Peay State University (APSU) men’s golf team, Patton Samuels shot a bogey-free, 15-under 201 to win the Golfweek Fall Challenge, Tuesday, at True Blue Golf Club.
Samuels fired a four-under 68 in the final round at the par-72, 6,971-yard track to card the third-best 54-hole score in Austin Peay State University history. Smith’s three-round score of 201 is tied with Justin Metzger’s 201 at the 2007 Belmont Invitational and is two shots off Erik Barnes’ program record of 199 at the F&M Bank APSU Intercollegiate.
Samuels is the first Austin Peay State University men’s golfer to win individual medalist honors since Marco Iten won the 2014 NCAA Auburn Regional.
As a team, the Governors finished third and shot 17-under 847 in head coach Easton Key’s Austin Peay State University debut. The Govs 847 is their best team score since shooting 17-under 847 at the 2019 F&M Bank APSU Intercollegiate at the Greystone Golf Club in Dickson, Tennessee.
Arkansas State won the tournament with a score of 35-under 277, and Wright State finished in second place at 23-under 841. Samuels, who carded four birdies in the final round, beat Wright State’s Andrew Flynn by two strokes for the individual title.
Reece Britt carded his second-straight two-under 70 in the final round to pick up two spots on the leaderboard and finish tied for eighth with an aggregate score of five-under 211. Seth Smith also carded a second-straight one-under 71; he finished tied for 23rd at even-par 216.
Freshman Grady Cox carded the final counting score for Austin Peay State University, shooting one-over 73 to finish his first collegiate tournament tied for 36th with a score of three-over 219. Rounding out the lineup for the APSU Govs, Caleb Brummitt shot an 85 to finish the Golfweek Fall Challenge in 83rd with a three-round score of 247.
Finally, Michael Long, who was playing as an individual, carded a third-round 82 to finish the tournament in 73rd with a score of 234.
Samuels and the APSU Govs tee off their second event under Key when they return to the home state for UT Martin’s Grover Page Classic, September 16th-17th, at Jackson Country Club in Jackson, Tennessee.
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