UNCG leads SoCon Men’s Golf Championship following first-round play

GREENSBORO, Ga. – UNCG sits atop the leaderboard with a three-stroke lead at the 2025 Southern Conference Men’s Golf Championship following the first round of play at par-72, 7,393-yard Oconee Course at Reynolds Lake Oconee in Greensboro, Georgia. Chattanooga’s Garrett Engle holds the individual lead after shooting a 6-under-par 66.

The Spartans led throughout the day, building a double-digit lead at one point before the Bucs closed the gap. Overall, six teams played even par or better.

UNCG holds a three-stroke advantage over ETSU, concluding the first round with a score of 11-under-par 277. The Buccaneers finished with an 8-under 280 performance.

Chattanooga sits in third at 3-under 285, while Western Carolina is fourth, two strokes back from the Mocs at 1-under-par 287. Furman and Mercer are tied for fifth after each logged an even-par 288. Samford shot 1-over-par 289 to conclude the round in seventh and Wofford rounds out the field in eighth with a score of 9-over-par 297.

Engle used nine birdies, which leads the field, to claim the top spot on the individual leaderboard.  The Spartans’ Jake Lewis is second on the leaderboard at 4-under 68, with a quartet of golfers sitting tied for third at 3-under 69. Those golfers are ETSU’s Kristian Bressum and Yannick Malik, Mercer’s Cole Hanson, UNCG’s Colin Dutton and Western Carolina’s Ivan Ninkovic.

Five players representing three different schools are tied for eighth at 2-under-par 70. ETSU’s Joshua Pritchett, Wofford’s Max Cranford, along with UNCG’s BJ Boyce, Kelvin Hernandez and Jack Marcotte sit in that position.

  
The tournament tees off with twosomes at 9 a.m. Live stats can be found here.