Toledo Sits in Third Place After 36 Holes at Purdue Fall Invitational

Monday, October 12

West Lafayette, Ind. - Kampen Course

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University of Toledo

Purdue Fall Invitational

Day One Results (PDF)

Junior Bence Bertenyi is tied for third place at five-under par at the Purdue Fall Invitational.

Photo by: Daniel Miller/University of Toledo

Toledo Sits in Third Place After 36 Holes at Purdue Fall Invitational

10/12/2026 9:19:00 PM | Men's Golf

Day One Results (PDF)

Junior Bence Bertenyi tied for third place at 5-under par

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Toledo men's golf team registered a 17-shot improvement from its first to second round on Monday and sits in third place after 36 holes at the Purdue Fall Invitational.

Junior Bence Bertényi fired a 4-under par 68 in today's second round to help the Rockets shoot 5-under for the best team score of the day at the par-72, 7,465-yard Kampen-Cosler Golf Course. Senior Brooks Pawlak and sophomore Braden Herstich also were in the red at 2-under par 70, with sophomore Harry McArdle shooting even-par 72.

Bertenyi is tied for the tournament lead with 10 birdies after registering seven birdies in the second round. Five of his birdies came during a six-hole stretch late in his second round.

Purdue leads the 13-team field at 5-under, with Northern Illinois in second place at 4-over. Toledo is in third place at 7-over, three shots in front of Indiana. The Hoosiers' Cole Starnes and Boilermakers' Jenson Forrester are tied for the individual lead at 6-under par, one in front of Bertényi and Indiana's Jake Cesare.

The third and final round will begin tomorrow with a 9:30 a.m. shotgun start.

TEAM STANDINGS
1. Purdue 357-358=715 (-5); 2. Northern Illinois 359-365=724 (+4); 3. TOLEDO 372-355=727 (+7); 4. Indiana 372-358=730 (+10); 5. Ball State 372-359=731 (+11); 6. Oakland 371-368=739 (+19); 7. Illinois State 364-376=740 (+20); 8. Purdue Fort Wayne 374-371=745 (+25); 9. Butler 377-373=750 (+30); 10. DePaul 380-376=756 (+36); 11. Omaha 376-386=762 (+42); 12. Southern Illinois 384-379=763 (+43); 13. Bowling Green 381-389=770 (+50)

TOP FIVE INDIVIDUALS
T1. Cole Starnes (Indiana) 68-70=138 (-6); T1. Jenson Forrester (Purdue) 70-68=138 (-6); T3. Bence Bertényi (TOLEDO) 71-68=139 (-5); T3. Jake Cesare (Indiana) 73-66=139 (-5); T5. Harrison Zipfel (Illinois) 73-68=141 (-3); T5. Jack Mulligan (NIU) 71-70=141 (-3); T5. Justin Hicks (Purdue FW) 70-71=141 (-3); T5. Logan Sutto (Butler) 70-71=141 (-3); T5. Will Harvey (Purdue) 71-70=141 (-3)

TOLEDO INDIVIDUALS
T3. Bence Bertényi 71-68=139 (-5); T15. Brooks Pawlak 74-70=144 (E); T29. Braden Herstich 78-70=148 (+4); T33. Harry McArdle 77-72=149 (+5); T52. Zane Aiken 72-81=153 (+9); 81. Cameron Bozyk 86-75=161 (+17)