Wolfgang Glawe Leads Men’s Golf at Valspar Collegiate Invitational

PALM CITY, Fla. – University of Houston senior Wolfgang Glawe fired a bogey-free 65 to lower his score for the second straight round and tied for 12^th at the Valspar Collegiate Invitational on Tuesday afternoon.

Competing on the 7,088-yard, par-71 course at Floridian National Golf Club, Glawe drained a team-high five birdies and finished the two-day, 54-hole tournament with a score of 6-under 207. It was his fourth Top-20 finish of the season.

As a team, the Cougars posted their low round of the tournament with a 279 Tuesday and finished 13^th with a two-day total of 848 in a field which featured five of the nation's Top-10 teams with each of the Top Three, eight of the Top 20 and 11 of the Top 25.

Starting his day off No. 12, Glawe quickly moved under par with a birdie on his first hole and moved 2-under with another birdie on the par-5 15^th hole.

Following seven straight pars, the St. Leon-Rot, Germany, native sank three birdies in a four-hole stretch, including back-to-back efforts on Nos. 7-8, before closing the tournament with three straight pars. He opened the first two rounds of the Valspar Collegiate Invitational with scores of 72-69

Senior Jacob Borow joined Glawe under par Tuesday and posted his third straight round of par or lower with a 69 to tie for 25^th at 3-under 210.

Junior Hudson Weibel tied for 49^th at 215 while senior Laurenz Schiergen tied for 53^rd at 216. Sophomore Chi Chun Chen tied for 57^th at 217.

Playing as individuals, junior Bryant Hiskey II tied for 84^th at 226 while sophomore Grant Doggett finished 87^th at 227. Freshman Hsuan-Yi Chen finished 91^st at 234.

#2 Texas captured the team championship with a score of 36-under 816 and finished 13 strokes ahead of #2 Arizona State. The Longhorns' total set a 54-hole team-record low and topped the previous low of 818 by Pepperdine in 2022.

North Carolina's Daniel Ford earned medalist honors with a score of 195, finishing two strokes ahead of Oklahoma's Jase Summy and Texas' Daniel Bennett, and enjoyed a tournament record of his own.

Ford set the 54-hole individual-record low with his score of 18-under 195. His total topped the previous low of 14-under 199 by Luke Clanton, Florida State (March 25-26, 2024); Dylan Menante, Pepperdine (March 28-29, 2022); and Matthew Wolff, Oklahoma State (March 17-19, 2019).

#14 Florida State finished third at 830 with #7 Oklahoma (831), #1 Auburn (832), #17 Duke (833), #23 Texas A&M (836), #31 South Florida (838), #19 Vanderbilt (843) and Arkansas (844) completing the Top 10.

Duke's Kelly Chinn, Auburn's Jackson Koivun and Wilhelm Ryding of South Florida tied for fourth at 11-under 202 while Florida State's Luke Clanton finished seventh at 203.

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Following the Valspar Collegiate Invitational, the Cougars close their regular-season slate when they tee off at the Thunderbird Intercollegiate at Papago Golf Club in Tempe, Ariz., on April 11-12.

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