Scot Golfers End Fall on Positive Note With Runner-Up Finish

The College of Wooster golf team wrapped up the fall portion of its 2003-04 schedule on Monday (Oct. 6) with a runner-up performance at the nine-team Otterbein College Fall Invitational, held at the par-72, 6,820-yard New Albany Links in New Albany, Ohio.

Paced by junior Joe Punturi and freshman Andy Van Horn, who both tied for eighth individually, Wooster turned in team scores of 313 and 306 at the one-day, 36-hole event, finishing just six strokes behind host and team champion Otterbein (613).

Two strokes behind the Scots was Columbus State University (621), while rounding out the field were familiar foes Baldwin-Wallace College (625), Muskingum College (632), Wittenberg University (637), Ohio Northern University (674), Capital University (685), and Ohio Dominican University (763).

Punturi came from an opening 81 to fire even par on the second 18 (72) and matching his 153 was Van Horn’s rounds of 75 and 78. Wooster had two others among the top-20 in junior Michael Tilden, who tied for 13th (80-76), and classmate Paul Hiller, who tied for 20th (79-80), while tying for 27th-place and scoring for the Scots on the opening 18 (79) was sophomore Brandon Tylka, who also carded 81.

Wooster’s next official varsity competition will be on the team’s spring break trip in March 2004.