#5 Vols are in second place at the NCAA Austin Regional ahead of the finals.

Texas’s Austin After two rounds at the NCAA Austin Regional, the men’s golf team from Tennessee, which is ranked sixth, is in second place.

The top five teams from the Austin Regional will move on to the NCAA Championships, which will be held at Omni La Salle from May 24-39, following two more rounds of stroke play, which are slated to be played on Tuesday and Wednesday.

California’s Carlsbad is home to Costa’s Champions Course.

 

The Vols finished Tuesday’s round at 4-under, and they are 12-under overall going into the final round.

 

Bruce Murphy shot a 3-under 68 to give UT its highest second-round score. The native of Atlanta, Georgia, shot an eagle on hole 12 to finish the round at 1-under.

 

Murphy moved up 26 places on the leaderboard on moving day, and he now enters

Murphy moved up 26 spots on the scoreboard on moving day and is now tied for 17th going into round three.

With a 1-under 70, Lance Simpson gave the Big Orange its second-best round of the day.

Simpson is tied for tenth place going into the third round, with a total score of 3-under.

On moving day, the redshirt senior tandem of Jake Hall and Bryce Lewis delivered UT an even-par 70.

On moving day, Lewis, the all-time career leader in Tennessee in rounds of par or better with 89, blasted an even-par 71 to stay at 4-under total. Before the final round, Lewis is three strokes off the lead individual position and tied for sixth.

Hall is tied for 17th going into the final round with a total score of 2-under.