NEWBURGH, Ind. -- The Purdue men's golf team pieced together a balanced attack on the first day of the Big Ten Championship that ended with players still on the course in the second round as day one was halted by darkness at 7:20 PM (CT).
Purdue finished the first day with all five players still on the course, but is in fourth place at 3-over par, including 4-under par in the darkness-suspended second round.
Austin Eoff is in a tie for eighth place at 1-under par.
The Boilermakers fired a first-round total of 7-over par 295 to sit in sixth place behind Iowa (-8), Illinois (-4), Ohio State (+3), Maryland (+3) and Minnesota (+5). The Boilermaker five quickly made up ground in the second round, playing the first two holes in a combined 3-under par to jump past Maryland and Minnesota. As it stands now, Purdue is just in fourth place four shots behind Ohio State and 12 shots behind second-place Iowa (-9). No. 3-ranked Illinois leads at 13-under par.
Purdue's current round of 4-under par is the third-best second round score behind Northwestern (-10) and Illinois (-9).
Eoff, a sophomore from Benton, Arkansas, leads the Purdue contingent at 1-under par through 27 holes, good enough to sit in T-8th after the first day. In his first round, Eoff was 2-over par through four holes, but then birdied five of the next eight holes to move to 3-under par through 15 holes. However, he then played the last three holes of his first round in 3-over par to fall back to even par after 18 holes.
The Boilermakers' five players finished the final three holes in a combined 11-over par among them in the first round.
Eoff then had eight pars and a birdie on the front nine before being called in because of darkness at 1-under par in his second round.
Ben-Marvin Egel is 1-over par for his tournament through 30 holes, including 2-under par through 12 holes in his second round, to sit in a 19th-place tie. Egel was bogey-free through 12 holes in his second round after shooting an opening-round 75 (+3).
Senior Enzo Perez is also tied for 19th at 1-over par through 30 holes after an opening-round 72. Perez started his second round with three bogeys in the first six holes, before birdies on holes 10 and 11 got him back to 1-over par for his round and for the tournament.
After an opening-round 76, Stuart Macdonald is in a tie for 23rd at 2-over par after going 2-under par through 12 holes in his second round.
Freshman Brian Carlson opened with a 4-over par 76 and is 2-over par through 12 holes in his second round to sit in a 38th-place tie at 6-over par.
The Boilermakers will resume second-round play with a shotgun start at 8 AM (CT) and the third round will begin at 8:30 AM (CT). The pairings will remain the same for the third round.
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