FULL RESULTS (.pdf)

Tournament: Hal Williams Collegiate
Location: Mobile, Ala. (Magnolia Grove – Crossings Course)
Course info: Par 71, 7,168 yards
VCU finish: 3^rd of 14 (-16)
Top Ram: Ugo Malcor, T4th (-71)
 
The short story: Sophomore Ugo Malcor shot just the fourth 64 in school history and VCU recorded a top-3 finish in a fourth consecutive tournament this week at the Hal Williams Collegiate.
 
FIRST TEE

• Malcor shot a bogey-free first round on Monday on the way to a career-best 64 and a place atop the leaderboard. He closed with back-to-back 71s to earn a share of fourth place, his best finish of the 2023-24 season
• Behind Malcor's outstanding play, the Rams shot a combined 16-under for the 54-hole tournament to take third. Illinois, ranked 20^th nationally, claimed the team crown at 25-under. No. 33 LSU (-22) was second. Davidson (-3) and Kansas State (-2) rounded out the top five
• Junior Tim Chan followed up last week's outstanding spring debut with a 68-69-72 effort. He finished 10^th at 4-under
• Freshman Grayson Wood (1-under), senior Mattias Varjun (E), and freshman Veikka Viskari (2-over) rounded out the VCU lineup in 21^st, 26^th and 36^th, respectively

VCU SCORES
3-VCU  273-284-279=836
T4-Ugo Malcor  64-71-71=206
T10-Tim Chan  68-69-72=209
T21-Grayson Wood  70-71-71=212
T26-Mattias Varjun  71-73-69=213
T36-Veikka Viaskari  74-73-68=215
 
INSIDE THE SCORECARD

• Malcor was consistent throughout, as evidenced by his field-best 45 pars. He carded just one bogey in the tournament
• Chan's 17 birdies tied for the tournament lead, and the junior college transfer averaged a tournament-best 4.11 on par 4 holes. Chan owns a team-high 29 birdies in two spring tournaments 

NOTABLE

• Malcor joins Ted Brown, Mark Jargren and Adrian Vagberg as the only Rams to shoot 64, and his 7-under score in the round trails only Brown's and Jargren's 8-under marks
• VCU's first-round score of 273 ranks in the top 10 in program history in both total strokes and score relative to par (-11)
• The Rams' 16-under mark for the tournament is tied for the ninth-lowest, relative to par, on the school's all-time list
• VCU has not finished worse than fourth in six tournaments in 2023-24
• Overall, the field included six top-100 teams

NEXT UP
VCU will return to action on Feb. 26-28 at the Lake Las Vegas Invitational at Reflection Bay Golf Club in Henderson, Nev.