A week after picking up his first collegiate victory at Murray State’s The Buddy, Smith became the first Austin Peay State University men’s golfer with multiple individual victories in a season since Marco Iten won three times during the 2013-14 campaign. Smith also became the first Governor to win back-to-back events since Chris Barron won the Cardinal Intercollegiate and Earl Yestingsmeier Classic during the 2005-06 season.
Smith’s victory marked the first time Austin Peay State University has had back-to-back individual medalists since Dustin Korte and Anthony Bradley won the Memphis Intercollegiate and ASU Red Wolves Intercollegiate, respectively, during the 2012-13 season. With Smith’s two individual wins and Patton Samuels’ win at the Golfweek Fall Challenge, the Governors already have multiple individual winners in the same season for the first time since the 2012-13 campaign.
Austin Peay State University shot 15-over 295 in the Xavier Invitational’s final round and finished tied for third with Connecticut. The Governors finished six shots behind Xavier’s A-Team and B-Team, who tied for the team title at the par-70, 7,100-yard track. The APSU Govs also beat fifth-place IU Indy by two shots and were 15 shots better than sixth-place Northern Kentucky…