WESTFIELD CENTER, Ohio – The College of Wooster men's golf team was the defending NCAA Div. III national champion the last time the Fighting Scots won multiple traditional tournaments in consecutive seasons. Then came along Tuesday, September 19, 2023, the date Wooster turned a two-stroke deficit against North Coast Athletic Conference rival Ohio Wesleyan University into a decisive 16-stroke victory at the six-team Westfield Collegiate Golf Classic.

Wooster's win percentage remains at 100 for the year, as the latest win follows a season-opening team title at the Gatorade Collegiate. Wooster followed up Monday's 311 with a blistering 297 at Westfield Country Club's North Course on Tuesday, with that count marking the team's third sub-300 score in four rounds this fall.

A perfect percentage is also what sophomore Gabe Guthrie's season consists of, as Wooster's No. 1 earned medalist honors for the second time this fall with a 5-over-par 146. Guthrie was firing on all cylinders down the stretch, playing Tuesday's final 14 holes at 3-under par, and he did not have a blemish on the scorecard during that run. Wooster's ace's first birdie rolled in on the par-5, 577-yard 16th hole and the daunting 604-yard 18th hole was no problem for Guthrie, who sank birdie two. A third birdie came on the par-3, 168-yard third hole, and the sophomore played Westfield's North Course's front nine at 1-under par. Guthrie entered the day with a one-stroke lead, and that margin ballooned to six by round's end. On Monday, Guthrie rolled in four birdies on the South Course at Westfield, including back-to-back ones on the par-5 472-yard 15th hole and the par-4, 391-yard 16th hole. Guthrie obliterated Westfield's par 5 holes, playing those at a combined 4-under-par.

Teammate Jacob Ullom, who became the program's first first-team All-NCAC performer since 2014 the last time Wooster competed at Westfield, was the runner-up at 152. He shot rounds of 77 and 75. Ullom carded four birdies on the week and played 25 of the 36 holes at par or better. Ullom was at 1-under-par through four holes on Tuesday, thanks to a birdie at the par-3, 176-yard 13th hole. He turned at 2-over-par Tuesday and then proceeded to play holes two through six on Westfield's North Course's front nine at 2-under-par. Earlier in the tournament, Ullom closed with a 2-over-par on the South Course's back nine with pars on seven of the nine holes, including Nos. 15 through 18.

Andrew Carey was part of the tie for fourth-place at 156, following rounds of 81 and 75. The first-year's consistency was on full display at Tuesday's onset, evidenced by four straight pars to start. A birdie rolled in on No. 18, and once the shotgun-start round was pulled together, Carey checked in at even par on the back nine. He added a second final-round birdie, with that coming on the par-4, 342-yard seventh hole. Carey played his last nine holes on Monday at 3-over-par.

Junior Krish Nayak scored another top-10 finish, coming in as part of the tie for seventh-place at 157. The junior opened with a 79 and closed with a 78. A birdie on the par-3, 183-yard eighth hole on Tuesday enabled Nayak to play the front nine at 1-over-par.  That stretch included four straight pars from holes four through eight and a stretch of six pars in seven holes. On Monday, Nayak had two birdies on the South Course's front nine and played 10 holes at par or better.

Senior Tyler Hilbert's 75 on Tuesday marked an eight-stroke bounce back from Monday and vaulted him to a tie for ninth-place at 158. Hilbert's efforts getting back on track from a tee shot into the links-style fescue on No. 14 were rewarded with a nice birdie, and he had a second circle on the card at hole seven, which capped a run of six straight holes at par or better. Hilbert had three birdies on the back nine of the South Course on Monday, playing that stretch at 3-over-par.

Wooster's wins during the 2022-23 season came at the Gatorade Collegiate and the Bluffton University Beaver Fall Classic. Wooster won four tournaments during the 1974-75 season, headlined by capturing the inaugural NCAA Div. III National Championship. The Scots followed that up with three tournament victories and a fourth-place national finish in 1976.

Wooster begins its quest for a first three-tournament-title season since the 1997-98 academic year this weekend, when the Scots play at the University of Mount Union Fall Invitational September 23-24.