The men’s golf teams from Dalton State College and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga finished near the bottom of the field as the Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic wrapped up Sunday at The Farm in Rocky Face, Ga.
Dalton State’s three-day total of 889 was one shot better than the Mocs, whose final-day 292 was two shots better than the Roadrunners. Dalton State finished 12th, while UTC was one place back and ahead of only Memphis in a tournament that always boasts a prestigious list of competing schools.
Virginia won the team title with a tournament-record 833 after closing with a 280. Auburn was second at 839, followed by Clemson (848), LSU (852) and Georgia Tech (856).
The Yellow Jackets produced the individual champion, Luke Schniederjans, who closed with a 2-under-par 70 on the 7,012-yard layout and finished at 205, two shots off the tournament record and one stroke ahead of a trio in second: the champion Cavaliers’ Derek Bard, Auburn’s Ryan Benton and North Florida’s Phillip Knowles.
Schniederjans is the younger brother of Ollie Schniederjans, who was a three-time All-American at Georgia Tech and now is a regular on the Web.com Tour who has competed in several PGA Tour events.