Westminster sixth after opening round of PAC Championships

10/13/2025 8:23:00 PM

WARREN, Ohio--Westminster College is in sixth place after Monday's opening round of the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) Men's Golf Championships.

The PAC's 36-hole fall event is being hosted by the Avalon Golf & Country Club in Warren, Ohio Monday and Tuesday. The men are playing a pair of rounds at Avalon Lakes in Warren.

Allegheny, winners of two-straight PAC titles, leads the 10-team field with a 12-over 300. Grove City is in second place (303) and is followed by W&J (307) in third. Westminster is 14 strokes off the lead with a team score of 314.

Grove City's Luke Gronbeck paced the 50-player field with a five-under 67. W&J's Matthew Morelli is second with a one-under 71.

Junior Tyler Hager (Lehighton, Pa., Palmerton) is in third place after carding an even-par 72. Senior Jonathan Haddox (Bethel Park, Pa., Bethel Park) is in a four-way tie for 22nd after an eight-over 80. Freshman Aydan Gross (Mount Pleasant, Pa., Mount Pleasant) and Brody Pirt (Cranberry Township, Pa., Seneca Valley) sit in a seven-way tie for 26th (81) and senior Joshua Furman (Jefferson, Ohio, Jefferson) is in a six-way tie for 36th (85).

The PAC Championships are a 72-hole stroke play event, beginning with 36 holes played this fall and another 36 holes played Friday-Saturday, April 24-25 at Mill Creek Metroparks and the Mill Creek Golf Course in Boardman, Ohio. The men will play two rounds on the South Course in April.

The combined 72-hole team totals determine PAC team champion and winner of the league's automatic-qualifying bid to the NCAA Division III Championships, which are scheduled for May 12-15 at the Mission Resort and Club in Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida.

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