Men's Golf Season Statistics
Women's Golf Season Statistics
INDIANAPOLIS – The third pairing of Great Midwest Athletic Conference Men’s & Women’s Golf Athletes of the Week came from Tiffin and Findlay as it was announced on Wednesday afternoon.
All teams competed at the Great Midwest Fall Invitational hosted by Hillsdale at Otter Creek Golf Club in Richmond, Ind., earlier this week.
The Hillsdale men held on in a close team race to emerge as the team victor while Findlay’s women, in attention grabbing record-breaking fashion, stole the show to earn the title of team champion.
Both medalists put up low numbers over the 54-hole day event. Twenty-seven holes were played on Monday and 27 more were completed on Tuesday.
Men’s Athlete of the Week
Noah Barth
Tiffin
Sophomore
Helsingborg, Sweden
As the GLIAC Freshman of the Year and PING All-Midwest Region selection in his first year with the program, Barth was primed to be one of the elite making the transition into a new league.
As is the case with all Dragons’ student-athletes in their first year with the Great Midwest, fans are seeing the kind of impact and talent the institution is producing at this stage of the fall season.
Barth is the latest to make that impression after winning medalist honors in a deep field of 59 players at the Great Midwest Fall Invitational.
Barth edged out last year’s championship medalist and conference freshman of the year Blain Turner by one stroke in the final scoring.
The Swedish product was at even par or better in all three rounds to finish with a cumulative total of 212 (-4) while the Dragons placed fourth as a team.
Barth sandwiched a 3-under par 69 in between an even par 72 and 1-under par 71 to record his second top-10 finish in as many events this season. He also tied for sixth in Tiffin’s season opener at the Ohio Cup.
At 71.80 through five rounds scored, Barth currently ranks third in the conference in scoring average behind Turner (70.0) and Hillsdale’s Liam Purslowe (71.70).
Women’s Athlete of the Week
Kristina Kniesly
Findlay
Sophomore
Logansport, IN (Logansport HS)
The Oilers simply ripped up pages for multiple categories from the Great Midwest record books that need to be rewritten following a torrid three-round stretch at Otter Creek.
The pioneer was Kniesly, the reigning Great Midwest Freshman of the Year, who shattered the single-round scoring round and earned medalist status in the women’s field.
Findlay won by almost 100 strokes over runner-up Tiffin and staked claim to the top six finishers in the individual standings.
The Oilers tied their own conference record for an 18-hole team score with a 287 (-1) in the final round and destroyed the 54-hole tournament team record with a final line of 289-300-287--876 (+12).
UF also shot a 287 (-1) in the second round at the Illinois Springfield Spring Invitational while the Oilers’ previous 54-hole record was 923 at the Peggy Kirk Bell Invitational.
Kniesly made birdie on six holes as part of her scorching round of 5-under par 67. The previous single-round record for 18 holes was a 69 (-2) put on the scorecard by Trevecca’s Alexa Rippy (2017) and Findlay’s Samantha Hatter last spring.
Kniesly’s three-round total of 214 (74-73-67) is also a new conference record. She is now the league’s current leader along with teammate Makenzie Torres in season scoring average at 73.33 through six rounds scored.