Oct. 7, 2003
Final Windon Memorial Classic Team Results
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GLENVIEW, Ill. -- Northwestern senior Casey Strunk (Phoenix, Ariz./Thunderbird) turned in his top collegiate performance, placing second at NU's Windon Memorial Classic on Tuesday at the North Shore Country Club (par 72, 7,058 yards). His career-best outing was not good enough to help the Wildcats earn a repeat crown, however, as Minnesota became the first three-time team champion, winning the Windon title by nine strokes over Purdue and California.
The Golden Gophers shared the Windon championship in 1994 with Texas A&M and won again in 1998.
Purdue's Peter Richardson captured the individual title, shooting a 10-under 206 (67-68-71). He equaled the 54-hole tournament record set a year ago by Northwestern's Tom Johnson (Sacramento, Calif./Del Campo). Richardson finished five strokes in front of Strunk (73-67-71=211), Joe Affrunti of Illinois and Justin Smith of Minnesota.
Strunk established career bests with his second-round 67, his 5-under 211 and his second-place showing.
Johnson fired an 8-over 80 on Tuesday and dropped back to 28th place (73-70-80=223). Northwestern's other finishers included T.C. Ford (Covington, La./Mandeville), who also placed 28th at 7-over (70-74-79=223); Dillon Dougherty (Woodland, Calif./Woodland) who finished 53rd (78-75-74=227) and Bryson Young (Reno, Nev./Galena) who finished 57th (79-74-75=228).
The Wildcats had two of their newcomers compete as individuals: freshman Chris Wilson (Dublin, Ohio/Dublin Coffman) finished 43rd at 9-over (73-72-80=225) and freshman David Merkow (Hartland, Wis./Arrowhead Union) was 57th at 12-over (77-75-76=228).
Northwestern returns to action next week, taking part in the Alister MacKenzie Invitational Oct. 13-14 in Fairfax, Calif.