June 1, 2007

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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - The Auburn men's golf team shot a 287 and finished 30th at 873 in the NCAA Championship at the par-70, 6803-yard Gold Course at the Golden Horseshoe Friday. The 30-team field was cut to the top 15 teams for Saturday's final round with Stanford holding a two-shot lead at 12-under 828 over Coastal Carolina.

The Tigers were led by senior Andrew Medley, who fired a 2-under 68 in his final collegiate round, tying the third lowest round by an Auburn golfer in the NCAA Championship. The Athens, Ala., native jumped from a tie for 115th into a tie for 74th with a 73-74-68--215. Medley had birdies on Nos. 3,5,6,8 and 9 Friday with a bogey at the seventh to make the turn at 4-under before bogeys at the 12th and 17th put him at 2-under.

"I played well today," Medley said. "I got off to a good start. I turned at 4-under but gave some back on the back nine. Overall, I played pretty good today. It is bittersweet. I am glad I played well and ended my college career with a good round, but I wish our team had done better for the week."

Sophomore All-SEC Glenn Northcutt tied for 92nd with a 75-71-71--217. The Dothan, Ala., native had three birdies on Nos. 9, 11 and 15 and four bogeys at Nos. 1,2,7 and 8. Junior All-SEC Patton Kizzire tied for 127th with a 73-72-77--222 and juniors Steven Groover (77-74-73--224) and Jay Moseley (74-75-75--224) tied for 137th.

"I just wouldn't have dreamed us playing like this on this golf course," head coach Mike Griffin said. "I am proud of the way our lone senior, Andrew Medley, finished his college career. He had a very good tournament and had an outstanding final round.

"We just didn't have it as a team this week. We had played so well heading into the championship. It is tough knowing how well we have been playing to the way that we finished. We had two bad holes on the first day and never recovered from that."

Stanford sustained its lead with a 5-under 275 for a 275-278-275--828 total, edging Coastal Carolina (277-281-272--830). Charlotte (279-283-276--838) and Alabama (284-283-271--838) are tied for third followed by Georgia (282-289-269--840), Georgia Tech (288-275-280--843), UCLA (283-280-283--846), Minnesota (278-276-294--848), Florida (278-290-280--848), South Carolina (291-278-280--849), Duke (294-278-277--849), Lamar (285-287-278--850) and Texas (278-288-284--850). Oklahoma State (287-279-285--851), Tennessee (284-287-280--851) and Florida State (283-288-280--851) tied for 14th and had to have a playoff to play in Saturday's final round.

Georgia State was 17th at 286-282-284--852 to finish ahead of East Tennessee State (280-280-294--854), Southern Cal (289-286-279--854), Arizona State (286-290-278--854), North Carolina (289-283-283--855), Vanderbilt (284-285-286--855), Michigan State (283-287-287--857), Arizona (290-287-281--858) and Tulsa (284-291-284--859).

Wake Forest finished 26th at 293-287-285--865 ahead of Louisville (288-292-288--868), Texas Tech (293-294-282--869), New Mexico (293-288-291--872) and Auburn (295-291-287--873).

Stanford's Rob Grube (64-71-69--204), Clemson's Kyle Stanley (70-69-65--204) and Georgia Tech's Cameron Tringale (67-68-69--204) enter the final round tied for the individual lead, one stroke ahead of a quartet of golfers tied for fourth. Duke's Michael Schachner had the lowest round in NCAA Championship history Friday with a 10-under 60.

Live-scoring of the NCAA Championship final round is available at www.golfstat.com.