Golf in 10th after Day One of Puerto Rico Classic

Monday, February 10

Rio Grande, PR (Grand Reserve Golf Club)

All Day

Marquette University

Puerto Rico Classic

2/10/2025 2:53:00 PM | Men's Golf

Live Scoring (Golfstat)

Reigning BIG EAST Golfer of the Week Johan Widal leads MU at 4-under (68)

By: Communications

Live Scoring (Golfstat) | Grand Reserve Golf Club

RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico – Marquette University junior men's golfer Johan Widal carded a 4-under 68 in first round action at the Puerto Rico Classic at Grand Reserve Golf Club on Monday and is tied for ninth individually.

The Golden Eagles are 10th as a team after posting a 3-under 285 in Monday's opening round, and are three strokes out of a tie for sixth with four teams at 6-under par. Ole Miss and tournament-host Purdue lead the event after 18 holes at 16-under and 14-under, respectively.

Widal's day began on the par-4 12th hole and included a team-best seven birdies, including a pair of three-hole birdie runs on Nos. 17-18, 1 and Nos. 4-6.

True freshman Vincent Cervantes posted three birdies on both the front and back and is tied for 29th with teammate Max Lyons with a 1-under 71.

The Golden Eagles are paired with Minnesota and College of Charleston for Tuesday's second round, which is slated to begin with a shotgun start at 6:30 a.m. Central time. The three squads will head off the 10th-13th tees.

10. MARQUETTE, -3 (285)
T9. Johan Widal, -4 (68)
T29. Max Lyons, -1 (71)
T29. Vincent Cervantes, -1 (71)
T65. Patrick Adler, +3 (75)
T86. Ryan Banas, +5 (77)
IND. (T65). Mason Schmidtke, +3 (75)

The Golden Eagles are coming off a win at BIG EAST Match Play on Feb. 3-4 at Bear Lakes Country Club in West Palm Beach, Florida for which Widal earned the first BIG EAST Male Golfer of the Week honor of his career. The Swede went 3-0 in match play and never reached the 17th hole in any contest.

MU is competing in its seventh-straight Puerto Rico Classic this year and former MU All-American Hunter Eichhorn holds the tournament's single-round scoring record with the 11-under 61 he shot in the third round of the event in 2022.

Previous Puerto Rico Classic Results (year, overall (MU finish):

Patrick Adler
2024: T-88 (5th), +14 (78-74-78—230)
2023: T-65 (Ind.), +8 (72-76-76—224)

Max Lyons
2024: T-16 (1st), -9 (67-71-69—207)
2023: T-57 (3rd), +4 (70-72-78—220)
2022: T-16 (2nd), -11 (70-67-68—205)

Mason Schmidtke
2024: 87 (4th), +11 (81-71-75—227)

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