The Wisconsin men's golf team hit the links this weekend at the Big Ten Men's Golf Championship at Forest Akres West Golf Course in East Lansing, Mich., finishing in eighth place.
The Badgers shot a 47-over par final tournament score of 1199 (296, 305, 302, 296) for the four-round championship tournament, 10 strokes better than ninth-place Purdue. The host team, No. 25 Michigan State, shot 1173 over the course of the weekend to take the conference crown, with Minnesota finishing second, just four strokes behind the Spartans.
Two Badger juniors, Tyler Obermueller and Dan Woltman, led the squad with dual 12-over par scores of 300, good enough to tie for 17th place overall.
Obermueller began the championships tied for third place after posting a 1-under, 71 first-round score but struggled through his second round of the day.
Obermueller's 18th-hole triple bogey more than erased his sole birdie on the ninth in the second round. He finished the round with a 79.
Obermueller responded with a pair of 3-over rounds on Saturday and Sunday to put himself atop the Wisconsin leader board.
Ranked No. 94 individually, junior Dan Woltman answered disappointing opening rounds of 76 and 79 on Friday, with rounds of 73 on Saturday and 72 on Sunday to tie for the team's best score.
In his final round 72, Woltman's double bogey on the 16th hole undid gains made on the front nine, which included a trio of birdies and a bogey and entered the final clubhouse with an even par score.
Junior Danny Zimmerman and senior Jeff Kaiser had solid outings for the Badgers all weekend, shooting nearly inversed stroke totals. Zimmerman finished tied for 22nd and posted scores of 74, 75, 78 and 75 for a net of 302, while Kaiser shot rounds of 75, 78, 76 and 74 for a 26th place overall score of 303.
Junior Pat Duffy shot a second round 73 to put himself in a tie for twenty-fifth place after Friday's two rounds. Duffy's championship series unraveled in rounds three and four, as two double bogeys on the back nine added to a 9-over 81 Saturday and five straight bogeys capped off by a double bogey on the seventh hole notched an 82 on Sunday. He finished in 46th place.
Indiana's Jorge Campillo secured individual laurels with a five-under round of 67 Sunday, en route to a 10-under championship series of 278.
The Badger golfers will take the next two weeks off to prepare for the NCAA regional competition May 15 at a course to be determined.
- golfstatresults.com contributed to this report.
