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2021-22 Catamount Men's Golf Roster

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Tumi Kúld

  • Position Player
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Akureyri, Iceland
  • High School Verkmenntasklinn Akureyri

Biography

2021-22 (Senior): Played in 11 of the team’s 12 seasonal events, finishing with a seasonal stroke average of 74.77 over 31 total rounds … A combined 27 of his 31 rounds on the season were shot in the 70s-or-better including a pair of 69s shot at the Carolina Collegiate Invitational and the Battle at Black Creek in the fall semester … Matched his career-low 54-hole score of 213 (73-70-70) at the season-opening EKU Intercollegiate, helping WCU to the team championship by placing in a tie for 22nd … Posted a season-best finish in a tie for 14th at the 2022 SoCon Men’s Golf Championship, carding the second-lowest three-round score of his career at 215 (70-71-74) ... Named to the 2021-22 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.

2020-21 (Junior): Was a member of WCU’s scoring five in all nine of the season’s events, finishing fourth on the squad with a season scoring average of 75.46 over 26 rounds … Posted 22 rounds in the 70s or better on the season with three top-20 individual finishes … Led the Catamounts in scoring in one event and finished second in another, pacing WCU in a career-best sixth-place tie at the Sea Palms Invitational hosted by WCU in St. Simons Island, Ga. … Turned in his third-lowest 54-hole score with a 216 that included a career-best round of 68 at the Sea Palms Invitational … Was WCU’s second-best finisher at the season-opening Scenic City Collegiate in the fall … Conclude the season with a 19th-place tie in the 2021 SoCon Men’s Golf Championship ... Named to the 2020-21 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll ... In August before his senior season, posted rounds of 70-72-70-71 (-1) to finish third at the Icelandic National Championship.

2019-20 (Sophomore*): Competed in six of the team’s seven competitions, each as a member of the scoring five … Finished third on the team with a season stroke average of 74.06 over 17 total rounds with all but one round shot in the 70s … Posted a season-low round of 70 three times, matching his career-low 18-hole score with 70 in rounds two and three at the J.T. Poston Invitational at the Country Club of Sapphire Valley and the final round at the Fort Lauderdale Intercollegiate in the spring … His 213 (73-70-70) at the J.T. Poston Invitational represented his best 54-hole score in career history ... Led the Catamounts in scoring at the Kiawah Classic at Turtle Point in November … Tallied a season-best finish in a tie for 21st at the Fort Lauderdale Intercollegiate that ended up being the final competition of the semester … *Season shortened because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the cancellation of spring sports in mid-March ... Carded a course-record round of 64 at his home course club championship in Iceland in mid-July of 2020.

2018-19 (Freshman): Played in all 11 of the team’s seasonal events, leading the team in seasonal stroke average at 76.10 … Led the Catamounts in scoring five times during the year … Named to the 2019 Southern Conference Men’s Golf All-Freshman team, WCU’s first since J.T. Poston in 2012 … 25 of his 31 rounds were shot in the 70s … Posted a career-best finish and his first top 10 as a collegian in his first event of the season at The Invitational at The Ocean Course … Carded his career-low round of 70 twice – first in the opening round of the home Hummingbird Intercollegiate and again in the spring semester in the second round of the Clemson Intercollegiate … Closed the season with an 18th-place finish at the 2019 Southern Conference Men’s Golf Championship.

Prior to Western Carolina: Is a two-time Icelandic National Matchplay Champion ... Selected as an Iceland National Team member, representing Iceland in the European Team Championship ... Since 2016, has posted six, top-10 finishes in 12 qualifying World Amateur Golf tour events ... Played in the European Boys in 2015 in Pickala, Finland ... Was named the 2014 player of the year in his hometown of Akureyri.

Personal: Is the son of Arinbjörn Kúld.

Historical Player Information

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  • 2019-20Sophomore

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  • 2020-21Junior

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