BY MATT KRAMER
Daily Sports Writer
Published October 15, 2002
Men's golf coach Andrew Sapp has been looking for three rounds of consistent golf from his team all season long.
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He'll have to wait another few weeks.
The Wolverines, coming off a ninth-place finish in their own tournament last weekend, shot rounds of 294-303-292-889 to finish 14th at the 18-team Xavier Provident Invitational in Cincinnati. Wright State won the tournament with a total of 853 - 36 shots in front of Michigan.
"We shot ourselves in the foot badly," Sapp said of his team's second round on Monday. "We came out with a real nice score in the first round and then, when most teams improved during their second round, we moved backwards."
Michigan found itself in fifth place after the first 18 holes of the 54-hole tournament thanks to rounds of 72 from junior Rob Tighe and a pair of 73s from freshmen Mark McIntosh and Jimmy Wisinksi.
But the wheels fell off for the Wolverines during their afternoon round, when the team shot a 19-over 303.
"It's still the same deal with some of our guys," Sapp said. "One guy will go out and have a good round and then the rest play poorly."
Wisinksi, playing in just his second tournament this year, led the Wolverines with rounds of 73-76-71-220. Junior Dave Nichols was the next best Wolverine, shooting rounds of 77-74-73-224.
"Jimmy played real solid," Sapp said. "He got off to a poor start on the final day but made three birdies in a row and finished off well."
While Wisinksi's 71 during his final round yesterday was the lowest score all week from any of the Wolverines, the 6,550 yard par-71 Kings Island Resort Course was conducive to low rounds for the competition.
Xavier's Miles Maillet, who finished sixth at the Wolverine Invitational last weekend, fired a 63 during the second round.
"This wasn't a difficult course," Sapp said.
The Wolverines will play one more tournament this fall before resuming play during the spring season.
Michigan will travel to Wilmington, N.C. on Nov. 1-3 to play in The Landfall Tradition.
Sapp said his lineup for The Landfall is still up in the air.
"We're still looking," he said. "We're going to go home and have qualifying next week for a few spots."
