Day One Results

HUMBLE, Texas – The Southern Nazarene University men's golf team opened their 2020 Spring season at the Houston Classic on Monday with 36 holes of action at the Golf Club of Houston in Humble, Texas.
 
The Crimson Storm posted back-to-back rounds of 308 for their team score, which has them in seventh place entering Tuesday's final round. Jacob Grellner led the way for SNU as the freshman carded a first round 75, followed by another 75 in the second round. Grellner's 150 two-round score puts him inside the top-20 as he will enter Tuesday's final round tied for 15^th, 11 shots back of the individual leader.
 
Three shots behind Grellner is Saxon Ross who carded rounds of 76-77 to sit in a tie for 25^th place. Senior Ethan Johnson posted rounds of 77-78 which puts him in a tie for 34^th, while freshman Zander Tway's rounds of 80-78 has him tied for 41^st entering the final round. Ondrej Melichar rounded out the Storm lineup in a tie for 49^th after carding an 83-78 in his opening two rounds.
 
Central Oklahoma leads the team leaderboard by six shots after carding team scores of 294 and 284. Southern Arkansas is in second, while Southwestern Christian is in third. Harding enters Tuesday's final round in fourth place while Cameron sits in fifth. Just one shot ahead of SNU is Oklahoma Baptist in seventh while Arkansas-Monticello and Oklahoma Wesleyan are tied for eighth.
 
Harding's Jake Croshaw leads the way on the individual leaderboard after firing rounds of 70-69 in his first two rounds while Southwestern Christian's Leonardo Ruggieri is right on his heels in second after carding opening rounds of 71-71.
 
Southern Nazarene will wrap up the final round of the Houston Classic on Tuesday morning.