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[Men's Golf] Fr. Marc Lengtat Slides Into 3rd Overall

Providence Men's Golf was invited to play in the Biola Spring Invitational March 16 – 18, at the legendary Bear Creek Golf Club, a Jack Nicholas designed course in Murrieta CA.  This place is a true test, often holding Q School qualifiers as well as USGA qualifiers.  Jack's architectural gradious design is an inviting landscape, nestled in the mountains, under the CA sun, with mountain tops surrounding and bursting with colorful flowers, and  million dollar houses all around.  If that's not distracting enough, there is a bronze statue of the legend himself a top a rock on hole 9.  The greens all have dead elephants burried somewhere underneath and are as receptive as your kitchen countertop to balls hit into them.  Providence as a team, in Round 1 had a very solid performance accepting the challenge before them.  Because Providence doesn't compete on Sunday, the team didn't realize how solid of a round they had actually played until the rest of the field came in with score in the 70's and 80's.  The Providence Men shot 78, 79, 81, and 91.  This was good enough for 2nd place as a team heading into Round 2.  Damian Quintanilla found himself in 2nd place individually with Marc Lengtat and Nick Chavez in the top 15. As Round 2 got underway, play remained challenging, the Providence team started to slowlly decline and fell back into 3rd and 4th place.  Marc Lengtat did not.  He shot one of the lowest rounds of the whole tournament with a 78.  As the Men turned around to play Round 3, the second 18 for the day, Marc didn't realize that he was climbing the leader board.  Marc with 9 holes to play in the competition found himself, on top of the leaderboard in a tie with an NCAA D2 Senior.  Marc held on and gave it everything, fairway, green, fairway, green.  His consistency allowed him to hava a shot at winning the tournament.  In the end, Marc made a few closing bogey's that dropped him into 3rd place, then faltered on his second to last whole putting him back into 5th or the moment.  Marc put all feelings aside and drove the ball 290 yards or more down the middle of his final hole, then drained a downhill slider from 20 feet to clinch 3rd place overall.  An amazing performance for Freshmen Golfer Marc Lengtat!The Men's and Women's team are back in action on March 23 – 25 at the Corban University Desert Intercollegiate in Indio CA.  Follow along on Instagram and Golfstat for more… #stayonpar