Khan's 4-Under 68 Helps Lift Cardinals to Monday's Low Round at Purdue Fall Invite

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Khan's 4-Under 68 Helps Lift Cardinals to Monday's Low Round at Purdue Fall Invite

September 23, 2024 | Men's Golf

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Ball State rebounded from a struggle through wet weather on Sunday afternoon then fired the best round of 15 teams during the final round of play on Monday. The Cardinals' 5-under par 283 was two strokes better than tournament champion Indiana (285) and four strokes lower than second-place Miami-Ohio (287). Ball State bested host Purdue (292) for the second time in three rounds and finished in 10th place.

Led by Ali Kahn's 4-under par 68, the Cardinals' 283 on Monday was one stroke off the best round of the entire tournament. Oddly, Virginia Commonwealth shot an opening-round 305 before carding their tournament-low round of 282 in Round 2. Ball State's 283 followed their own round of 305.

Ball State (294-305-283—882) was in fifth place after Round 1, but the slide in Round 2 proved to be the Cardinals' demise. Monday, the Cardinals moved up two spots from their 12th-place standing with solid, sub-par rounds turned in by Ali Khan (74-77-69—219), Braxton Kuntz (73-78-70—221) and Kash Bellar (78-74-69—221). Khan finished 24th overall while Kuntz and Bellar tied in the 32nd position.

The difference between the second and third rounds, for Ball State, was 22 strokes – 17-over par in Round 2 and 5-under par in Round 3. Cardinals' scoring was capped by Carter Smith (75-76-76—227) and Avery Mahoney (72-79-79—230). It was the sophomore transfer Mahoney who posted Ball State's only round of par before Cardinal veterans got hot Monday.

Worth noting on a day with stellar play on the par-72 Kampen-Cosler Golf Course, the Cardinals' freshmen both shined while participating in an individual event run concurrently on Purdue's par-71 Ackerman-Allen Golf Course. Happy Gilmore (71-69-73—213) shot 2-over par on Monday to finish fourth in the individual event and Gavin Hare (75-75-70) fired his best round with a 1-under 70 to finish 20th among 36 individual golfers. Redshirt junior Colin Nasser finished four strokes behind Hare.

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