Tournament: PDI Shootout
Keiser University Tournament Finish/Score: 1 of 13/+12 (288-295-281, 864)
Location: PGA National – Champions Course, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
Course Information: Par 71, 7,045 yards
The top-ranked team in the country lived up to the billing. The No. 1-ranked Seahawks closed with a 3-under 281 in the final round - easily the low team score of the day - to finish at 864 (+12) and win the PDI Shootout by 10 strokes over the field's second-place finisher.
What made it especially lopsided: that runner-up was also Keiser. The Keiser [B] group of individuals posted 874 (+22), meaning the Seahawks' program occupied the top two spots on the leaderboard. A third Keiser contingent, Keiser [C], added a 894 (+42) that would have been good for 6th as a team score. Between the three groups, Keiser had 15 players in the field — no other program had more than five.
Iver Sokhan-Sanj claimed medalist honors outright at 212 (-1), highlighted by an opening-round 68 (-3). Right behind him, Keiser's Yann Ferrando tied for 2nd at 214 (+1), closing with a 2-under 69 in the final round to match the low round among the game's top finishers.
Stanley Campbell rounded out Keiser's top-4 individual presence at 216 (+3), good for outright fourth place overall. In all, Keiser players filled five of the top 15 spots on the individual leaderboard, and had representatives inside the top 30 in nearly every scoring tier - Fridtjof Farhang and Jack Peters tied for 15th (221), Max Gipson and Vian Jansen van Vuuren in the T18/T22 range, and Matus Cedzo and Nelis De Bruin tied for 29th (224).
Even measured against a field that included four other ranked NAIA programs, Keiser wasn't just the best team - it was the best three teams. No other school finished inside 30 strokes of Keiser [A]'s total, and the presence of Keiser [B] and [C] filling out two more of the day's top-six team scores underscored just how deep the Seahawks' roster ran on both ends of the course.
1. Iver Sokhan-Sanj of Keiser at 1-under (68-71-73, 212)
T2. Sam Dykema of Indiana Wesleyan at 1-over (69-70-75, 214)
T2. Yann Ferrando of Keiser at 1-over (74-71-69, 214)
(IND) Iver Sokhan-Sanj (-1) (68-71-73, 212) (1st Place)
- Opened the season with the fifth tournament win of his Keiser career
- Recorded sixth Top-5 finish of his career
- Shot even-par on Par 4s and 3-under on Par 5s
- Registered 35 par putts
- Carded 11 birdies
Yann Ferrando (+1) (74-71-69, 214) (T-2nd Place)
- Posted the ninth Top-5 finish of hisKeiser career
- Shot a 3-under on Par 5s
- Registered 28 par putts
- Had a tournament-best 14 birdies
Stanley Campbell (+3) (70-74-72) (4th Place)
- Recorded first Top-5 finish of his Keiser career
- Was 4-under on Par 5s
- Tallied a tournament-best 38 par putts
- Registered seven birdies
(IND) Basil Strolz (+5) (72-73-73, 218) (T-6th Place)
- Posted the first Top-10 finish of his Keiser career
- Was 4-under on Par 5s
- Recorded 34 par putts
- Carded eight birdies
Jack Peters (+8) (77-76-68, 221) (T-15th Place)
- Shot a 5-under on Par 5s
- Notched 33 par putts
- Recorded nine birdies
(IND) Fridtjof Farhang (+8) (71-73-77, 221) (T-15th Place)
- Shot 1-under on Par 5s
- Carded 35 par putts
- Had six birdies
Max Gipson (+9) (70-80-72, 222) (T-18th Place)
- Shot a 2-under on Par 3s and 1-under on Par 5s
- Tallied 37 par putts
- Recorded seven birdies
(IND) Thaddeus Huainigg (+10) (72-75-76, 223) (T-22nd Place)
- Was 1-under on Par 5s
- Notched 31 par putts
- Registered seven birdies
Vian Jansen van Vuuren (+10) (74-74-75, 223) (T-22nd Place)
- Shot 4-under on Par 5s
- Had 30 par putts
- Recorded seven birdies
(IND) Dimitri David (+10) (77-76-70, 223) (T-22nd Place)
- Was even-par on Par 5s
- Recorded 36 par putts
- Tallied five birdies
(IND) Nelis De Bruin (+11) (75-78-71, 224) (T-29th Place)
- Shot 1-under on Par 5s
- Had 34 par putts
- Totaled five birdies
(IND) Matus Cedzo (+11) (75-73-76, 224) (T-29th Place)
- Was 4-under on Par 5s
- Registered 34 par putts
- Had seven birdies
(IND) William Brun Solum (+14) (79-79-69, 227) (T-35th Place)
- Shot even-par on Par 3s
- Recorded 31 par putts
- Tallied eight birdies
(IND) Bennett Dolter (+19) (81-76-75, 232) (T-51st Place)
- Carded 31 par putts
- Posted four birdies
(IND) Michael Conti (+26) (78-76-85, 239) (T-68th Place)
- Registered 33 par putts
- Notched two birdies
1) No. 1 Keiser (+12)
2) St. Thomas (+22)
3) No. 19 Indiana Wesleyan (+30)
4) Palm Beach State (JC) (+31)
5) No. 7 OUAZ (+44)
T6) No. 18 Rocky Mountain (Mont.) ( +50)
T6) (rv) Bellevue (Neb.) (+50)
T6) Eastern Florida State (JC) (+50)
9) SCAD (+53)
10) T-No. 5 Webber Int'l (+59)
11) Florida College (+78)
12) Ave Maria (+81)
13) Lake Sumter (JC) (+91)
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