Sunday, April 30
Hardeeville, S.C. (Riverton Pointe Country Club and Golf Course)
8:33 AM
Creighton University
at
BIG EAST Championship
Charlie Zielinski
Photo by: Stephen B. Morton for the Big East
Men's Golf Finishes Seventh; Zielinski Fourth at BIG EAST Championships
4/30/2023 3:18:00 PM | Men's Golf
Zielinski earns second straight top-five finish at league tournament
HARDEEVILLE, S.C. -- Charlie Zielinski earned his second straight top-five finish to lead Creighton to a seventh-place finish at the BIG EAST Men's Golf Championships, Presented by JEEP.
Coming off a third-place finish at last year's BIG EAST Championship, Zielinski took fourth this year as the junior finished at even par for the event following rounds of 71, 70 and 75. The junior from Omaha owned an outright lead with eight holes to play, only to play the next three holes in 4-over. A birdie on his penultimate hole vaulted him into the top-five to guarantee a spot on the All-Tournament Team.
Zielinski's closing 75 also clinched the team's season scoring title as he averaged 73.67 strokes over 30 rounds.
Shaun Campbell tied for 25th place after a closing 78 that followed rounds of 75 and 72. He finished the year with a 73.80 scoring average, just four total shots over 30 rounds behind Zielinski.
Junior Jackson Thompson shot Creighton's best round of the day with a 74, which came one day after his season-low 71.
Grant Feldman's first experience at the BIG EAST Championship ended on a positive note with the freshman's lone birdie of the day. He shot an 81 on Sunday to place 38th in the field with a 230 aggregate.
Rounding out the Bluejay lineup on Sunday was sophomore Owen Mackin, who tied for 44th place following loops of 75, 74 and 86.
With all 10 teams separated by just 25 total shots after three rounds, Creighton (295-287-308=890) spent time as high as fourth and as low as ninth on Sunday before finishing in seventh and just one shot out of a tie for fifth place. CU's 890 total was its second-best at a league championship in the past 20 years. Marquette (293-279-301=873) won the tournament for the fourth time in the last eight seasons with a three-stroke victory over St. John's (295-279-302=876), earning a postseason bid to NCAA Regionals.
St. John's Jack Simon (69-68-76) and Marquette's Bhoom Sima-Aree (73-68-72) tied for medalist honors with a 3-under 213 aggregate, one shot better than Georgetown's Pieter DaGroot (71-70-73) and three ahead of Zielinski. Simon earned an automatic bid to NCAA Regionals when he birdied the first playoff hole (No. 18) to defeat Sima-Aree.
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The tournament field featured 10 teams and 55 players that competed on the Par 72 Riverton Pointe Golf and Country Club, which measured 6,979 yards.
The event closed the first season at Creighton for head coach Wes Bernt, which returns everyone but Tristan Nelko, Ethan Olson, Jack Olson and Cade McCallum from this year's squad.
Coming off a third-place finish at last year's BIG EAST Championship, Zielinski took fourth this year as the junior finished at even par for the event following rounds of 71, 70 and 75. The junior from Omaha owned an outright lead with eight holes to play, only to play the next three holes in 4-over. A birdie on his penultimate hole vaulted him into the top-five to guarantee a spot on the All-Tournament Team.
Zielinski's closing 75 also clinched the team's season scoring title as he averaged 73.67 strokes over 30 rounds.
Shaun Campbell tied for 25th place after a closing 78 that followed rounds of 75 and 72. He finished the year with a 73.80 scoring average, just four total shots over 30 rounds behind Zielinski.
Junior Jackson Thompson shot Creighton's best round of the day with a 74, which came one day after his season-low 71.
Grant Feldman's first experience at the BIG EAST Championship ended on a positive note with the freshman's lone birdie of the day. He shot an 81 on Sunday to place 38th in the field with a 230 aggregate.
Rounding out the Bluejay lineup on Sunday was sophomore Owen Mackin, who tied for 44th place following loops of 75, 74 and 86.
With all 10 teams separated by just 25 total shots after three rounds, Creighton (295-287-308=890) spent time as high as fourth and as low as ninth on Sunday before finishing in seventh and just one shot out of a tie for fifth place. CU's 890 total was its second-best at a league championship in the past 20 years. Marquette (293-279-301=873) won the tournament for the fourth time in the last eight seasons with a three-stroke victory over St. John's (295-279-302=876), earning a postseason bid to NCAA Regionals.
St. John's Jack Simon (69-68-76) and Marquette's Bhoom Sima-Aree (73-68-72) tied for medalist honors with a 3-under 213 aggregate, one shot better than Georgetown's Pieter DaGroot (71-70-73) and three ahead of Zielinski. Simon earned an automatic bid to NCAA Regionals when he birdied the first playoff hole (No. 18) to defeat Sima-Aree.
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The tournament field featured 10 teams and 55 players that competed on the Par 72 Riverton Pointe Golf and Country Club, which measured 6,979 yards.
The event closed the first season at Creighton for head coach Wes Bernt, which returns everyone but Tristan Nelko, Ethan Olson, Jack Olson and Cade McCallum from this year's squad.
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