While Purgatory is thought to be nei­ther good nor bad, it was pretty good to be there in the eyes of the Bulldog men’s golf team.

Ferris placed three golfers in the indi­vid­ual top 20 at the NCAA Division II Great Lakes Region Tournament en route to a third-place fin­ish for the team. The Bulldogs shot a two-round score of 597 at the par 72, 7,268-yard Purgatory Golf Course at Noblesville, Ind, to fin­ish 21-strokes over par. The tour­na­ment hosted 25 teams for the 36-hole tour­na­ment on April 10–11.

The Bulldogs fin­ished one stroke behind second-place Ashland (596, +20), while Indianapolis (582, +6) took home a dom­i­nat­ing vic­tory, fin­ish­ing 14-strokes bet­ter than Ashland.

A season-best 143 stroke effort from Senior Garrett Simons paced the Bulldog effort, as he earned a share of a tie for sec­ond place by fin­ish­ing at one-under par. Rockhurst’s Clarke Fry (143, –1) shared second-place hon­ors with Simons. Indianapolis’ Jacob Yocum (141, –3) took home top hon­ors for the tournament.

Fellow senior Kyle Wittenbach(149, +5) earned a share of 13^th place while junior Ian Straayer (151, +7) fin­ished among eight play­ers in 19^th place.

The younger play­ers rounded out the scor­ing effort for Ferris, as fresh­man Trent Davison shot a 154 to fin­ish at 10-over par, good for a tie for 44^th place. Sophomore Tyler Robinson fin­ished the Ferris effort with 176-stoke effort in the two-day tour­na­ment, fin­ish­ing 26-strokes over par.

The spring sea­son will con­tinue on for the Bulldogs with a trip to the Detroit Titans Invitational this week­end (April 15–16) at the Prestwick Village Golf Club in Highland, Mich. n