The Cardinals traveled down to Lake Jovita Golf and Country Club in Dade City, Florida. The five-person roster consisted of graduate student Joey Ranieri, sophomore Kash Bellar, redshirt sophomore Griffin Hare, redshirt sophomore Ali Khan, freshman Carter Smith and sophomore Colin Nasser.
The Ball State men’s golf team traveled to Kettering, Ohio to compete in the Dayton Flyer Invitational. The Cardinals finished 7th out of 13 teams with graduate student Joey Ranieri tying for ninth individually.
“It was an awful start.” Five words described how head coach Mike Fleck felt about the opening holes for the Ball State men's golf team who opened up their first round at the bottom of the leaderboard at the Purdue Fall Invitational. Regardless of the start, Ball State was able to turn some problems around. “I was proud of them, how they played the rest of the day,” Fleck said. “We were probably in the top half of the team scoring-wise if you kind of scratch the start.”
Sept. 19-20, Ball State men's golf traveled to Cincinnati for the Bearcat Invite. The Cardinals finished 6th out of 13 teams shooting 861.
The Ball State men's golf team traveled to the Streamsong Invitational in Bowling Green, Florida Sept. 12-13 as the Cardinals placed 11th out of the 13 teams at the invite with a total score of 868, Virginia won with a score of 808.
Ball State men’s golf team placed second out of 15 teams in the Earl Yestingsmeier Invitational Sept. 2-3 with a score of 19-over-par [859] for two combined days, trailing Wright State by 13 strokes [846].
On day two of the Indiana High School Boys Golf State Finals, Delta High School Boys Golf junior Riley Bratton shot an 85, three points better than his score from day one. Bratton finished his trip to the State Finals with a total score of 173, meaning he was 29 over par.
Three Ball State golf alumni are one step closer to playing at golf’s highest level. Brian Maurer (2009), Eric Steger (2011) and McCormick Clouser (2015) qualified for the Professional Golf Association Tour Latinoamérica.
The warm Hawaiian sun was not enough to distract men's golfer Johnny Watts from a dominant performance at the Ka'anapali Collegiate Classic. Watts finished third out of 102 golfers, topping nine of the 10 top-100 players coming into the tournament. Though Watts finished third, he was just two strokes behind individual medalist Zach Healy out of Georgia. The Sophomore out of Fishers earned his place after posting a career-best 54-hole score of six under par 207 after going 69, 68 and 70 respectively. This is the fourth top 20 and second top ten finish for last spring's MAC individual champion.
Sophomore Johnny Watts finished tied for ninth place overall at The Firestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio.
