CHOUDRANT, La. — UTSA freshman Joshua Hong is in the top 15 and the Roadrunners are 13th after the second round of the Argent Financial Classic on Monday at Squire Creek Country Club (par 72/7,105 yards).
Hong posted his second straight 2-under-par 70 to settled into a six-way tie for 13th place at 4-under 140 with 18 holes left to play on Tuesday. The freshman from Guadalajara, Mexico, recorded four birdies on the day to give him eight for the week.
Teeing off from No. 10, Hong bounced back from a bogey on his opening hole with three consecutive birdies to get to 2-under. He wrote down a four on the 561-yard 17th hole and then followed with a three on the 456-yard 18th to close out a 35 on the back. He logged a birdie on the 388-yard, par-4 first and countered his second bogey of the day on the third by circling his number on the 546-yard, par-5 ninth to close out his 2-under round.
Hong is one shot out of eighth place and only two strokes behind a four-way tie for fourth in the 99-player field paced by South Alabama’s Joshua Hill, Houston’s Hudson Weibel and Southern Miss’ Matthew Javier, who are 7-under par.
The Roadrunners registered a three-shot improvement from their opening round with a 1-iover 289 on Monday. UTSA is sitting at 5-over par, one stroke ahead of Lamar and only two back of UAB.
Logan Vargas is also in the red numbers, as the senior from Lubbock has a share of 34th at 1-under 143. After opening with a 72 on Sunday, he carded a 1-under 71 that featured four birdies, two on each side.
Brayden Bare is in 66th with a 4-over 148 (75-73), while Francisco Solorza and Jacob King round out the lineup in 83rd (75-76—151) and 88th (78-75—153), respectively.
South Alabama has the 36-hole lead at 15-under par, followed by Southern Miss (-10) and Rice (-10) in the top three.
The final round is scheduled for Tuesday.
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