WINDERMERE, Fla. – Redshirt sophomore Tony Chen carded a 1-under-par 71 to pace the California men's golf team in the first round of the Isleworth Collegiate at Isleworth Golf and Country Club on Sunday.
 
The Golden Bears are tied for eighth place in a talented 15-team field – seven of the 15 teams are ranked among the nation's top 42 teams by Golfstat.com – with a collective 5-over-par 293 after 18 holes of action. Ten teams, including Cal, find themselves within seven strokes of one another between even-par and 7-over-par; third-ranked Auburn leads the field by a wide margin at 15-under-par.
 
Chen played near-bogey-free golf on Sunday on the way to his first-round 71, which earned him a tie for 15th individually. Birdies on holes 7 and 12 had Chen at 2-under-par before a bogey on 14 brought him back to 1-under. Chen has fired three consecutive rounds of 71 or better dating back to the second round of the Alister Mackenzie Invitational in Sonoma on Oct. 10.
 
Close behind Chen are Nathan Wang (+1), Simon Kwon (+2) and Jeewon Park (+3), the latter of which rebounded from a difficult front-nine 41 with a back-nine 34 that featured three birdies on holes 11, 15 and 17. Wang and Kwon are tied for 23rd and 28th, respectively, while Park is tied for 37th.
 
TEAM LEADERBOARD

Place	Team	To Par	R1	R2	R3	Total
1	Auburn	-15	273			273
2	Florida	-2	286			286
3	UCF	E	288			288
4	LSU	+1	289			289
5	Purdue	+3	291			291
T6	Arizona	+4	292			292
T6	West Virginia	+4	292			292
T8	South Carolina	+5	293			293
T8	California	+5	293			293
T10	Minnesota	+6	294			294
T10	Illinois	+6	294			294
12	North Florida	+7	295			295
13	Utah	+19	307			307
14	UNLV	+21	309			309
15	Augusta	+30	318			318

 
CAL ON INDIVIDUAL LEADERBOARD

Place	Name	R1	R2	R3	Total
T15	Tony Chen	71 (-1)			71 (-1)
T23	Nathan Wang	73 (+1)			73 (+1)
T28	Simon Kwon	74 (+2)			74 (+2)
T37	Jeewon Park	75 (+3)			75 (+3)
T74	Ethan Chung	81 (+9)			81 (+9)

 
UP NEXT
Round two on Monday at the Isleworth Collegiate will feature Cal playing alongside West Virginia (T-6th, +4) and South Carolina (T-8th, +5). The Bears will tee off hole 1 between 5-5:40 a.m. PT. Live scoring is available on Golfstat.com.
 
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