Northwestern men’s golf finished fifth at the Spartan Collegiate at Sea Island, Georgia, on Tuesday, marking another strong finish for the Wildcats. The stroke-play event featured the top five golfers on each of the 16 participating teams, whose scores were combined over three rounds to form the team leaderboard.
NU’s top finisher was junior David Nyfjall. The Swede finished the event at four-under-par, good for sixth place overall and six strokes behind the event’s winner, Mac McClear of Iowa. Nyfjall’s score tied Ohio State’s Maxwell Moldovan, the country’s sixth-ranked golfer.
Nyfjall wasn’t the only strong finisher on the team.