Acevedo, Xie Power Pirates to Second Place at Chambers Bay

Tuesday, April 5

University Place, Wash. / Chambers Bay Golf Course

All Day

Seton Hall University

Third Round

Acevedo, Xie Power Pirates to Second Place at Chambers Bay

4/5/2022 9:07:00 PM | Men's Golf

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The Pirates place second out of 23 teams, while Acevedo and Xie tie for seventh at 1-over-par.

UNIVERSITY PLACE, WASH. – Graduate student Andres Acevedo (San Antonio, Texas) and Wenliang Xie (Zhaoqing, China) shot a 1-over-par, 72, to lift the Seton Hall men's golf team to a second-place tie at the highly-competitive Seattle Redhawk Invitational on Tuesday.

The Pirates were playing well despite brutal weather and high winds on Monday. They were in second place on the back nine when play was halted and all scores were erased in favor of playing one final round today. The Hall continued its strong performance on Tuesday, firing an 8-over-par, 292, to tie Abilene Christian for second place in the 23-team field. Boise State won the team title at 3-over-par.

Among the teams that the Pirates defeated was Oregon State, ranked 50^th via golfstat.

Acevedo had four birdies, while Xie had a birdie and an eagle on the par-5, No. 18 hole. They tied for seventh among 120 individual golfers with a 1-over-par, 71. They finished three strokes behind the individual champion, Boise State's Max Charles. It's the fourth top-10 finish of the year for both Pirates.

Freshman Angus O'Brien (Barwon Heads, Australia) and senior Deven Ramachandran (San Rafael, Calif.) tied for 15^th place overall with a 3-over-par, 74. O'Brien had a birdie and 13 pars, while Ramachandran tallied two birdies and 12 pars.

Graduate student Gregor Tait (Martlesham Heath, England) rounded out the Pirates' lineup with a 6-over-par, 77, on Tuesday.

Tournament Details:
SEATTLE REDHAWK INVITATIONAL
Host: Seattle University
Location: University Place, Wash.
Course: Chambers Bay Golf Course
Course Vitals: Par-71, 7,341 yards
Dates: April 4-5, 2022

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THE COURSE
The design challenge for Chambers Bay was simple yet formidable: Robert Trent Jones II was asked to create a world-class golf course, enjoyable for golfers of any skill level, yet capable of hosting major championships and events.

Built on the site of a former sand and gravel mine adjacent to Puget Sound, Chambers Bay gave the architects an ideal medium upon which to build a traditional links golf course. The extraordinary views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains provide an environment where golfers enjoy not only world-class golf, but also a sense of visual nirvana.

Robert Trent Jones II and his team developed creative solutions to a number of design challenges presented by this monumental project. The land set aside for the golf course was degraded after a century of industrial usage but contained bold landforms shaped by wind and weather. The design team used these landforms as the scaffolding for the golf course design. They crafted a dramatic links landscape by clearing non-native vegetation and reworking the sand piles left from mining operations of the past into massive dunes. They then routed the golf holes between, over, and around these dramatic features and planted the entire course in fescue, the grass found on traditional British links.

Train tracks border the golf holes as they do at such beloved links courses as Prestwick and Royal Adelaide. And "ancient" ruins—from the site's mining era—are visible from a number of holes, as at several links courses in the British Isles. A public walking trail winds through the course, allowing walkers to form impromptu galleries, just as they do at St. Andrews. No housing mars the purity of the golf holes, and as Chambers Bay is a continuously turfed, walking-only venue, no cart paths intrude upon the natural look. This award-winning course possesses the attributes of the world's greatest golf links.

THE FIELD
In addition to Seton Hall and host Seattle, the large field featured 22 other teams including: Abilene Christian, Boise State, Boston College, California Baptist, Cleveland State, CSU-Northridge, Delaware, George Washington, Idaho, Lamar, La Salle, Loyola-Chicago, Oregon State, Pacific, Sacramento State, UCSD, UT-Arlington, UTEP, UTRGV, Washington, Western Carolina and Wichita State.

FORMAT
The teams played five golfers and count the four lowest scores per round.

UP NEXT:
The Pirates will return to tournament play when they take on the Princeton Invitational at Springdale Golf Club, April 9-10.

2022 SEATTLE REDHAWK INVITATIONAL - Team Scores
Pos.	Player	R3	TOTAL	PAR
1	Boise State	287	287	+3
T2	SETON HALL	292	292	+8
T2	Abilene Christian	292	292	+8
T4	Oregon State	297	297	+13
T4	Seattle	297	297	+13
6	UT Arlington	298	298	+14
T7	Loyola-Chicago	299	299	+15
T7	Lamar	299	299	+15
9	California Baptist	301	301	+17
10	Idaho	302	302	+18
11	Western Carolina	304	304	+20
T12	Boston College	305	305	+21
T12	Delaware	305	305	+21
T12	Cleveland State	305	305	+21
15	CSU-Northridge	306	306	+22
16	Wichita State	308	308	+24
T17	George Washington	309	309	+25
T17	Pacific	309	309	+25
T19	Sacramento State	310	310	+26
T19	UTRGV	310	310	+26
21	UCSD	313	313	+29
22	UTEP	317	317	+33
23	La Salle	320	320	+36