Mother nature didn’t allow the ISU men’s golf team to complete the final round of the Adams Cup in Newport, R.I., but the team came away with a seventh place finish.

The Cyclones were led by freshman Chris Baker and junior Drew Dalziel, who both posted top-20 finishes in the tournament.

Baker, in his second career collegiate tournament, tied for 13th after shooting a 147 (72-75) on the tournament.

Dalziel tied for 19th with a score of 150 (77-73).

“Chris played very well and looked a lot more comfortable than in his first tournament,” head coach Jay Horton said.

Horton credited Baker and Dalziel for establishing themselves as the top two in the first two tournaments. The Cyclones finished seventh but Horton said he sees a lot of upside to that finish and was happy with his team’s performance.

“We improved a lot from last week, and of course I want to keep seeing that. There were many positives we have to look at,” Horton said.

The other ISU participants were a group of three sophomores, Rodney Hamblin (79-75—154), Dane Odden (78-78—156) and Curtis Foster (84-79—163).

“Dane and Rodney looked really good considering this was their first ever tournament. Dane showed me a lot of positives and Rodney showed a lot of fight in the second round,” Horton said.

Michigan State ended up winning the Adams Cup, followed by Georgia Southern and Charlotte.

This weekend the team will head to Memphis, Tenn., to play in a tournament that will consist mainly of Big 10 opponents and foes from the Big East. The team looks forward to this weekend because the cross-state rival, the Iowa Hawkeyes, will also be in action.

“It’s always a big deal when you play against Iowa. We normally meet them once a year, but we’ll play against them three or four times this year,” Horton said.

Going into Memphis, Horton thinks the team needs to work mainly on capitalizing on birdie opportunities.

“We need to make more birdies on easier holes. Every course has birdie opportunities and we need to make them and keep from making silly bogies,” Horton said.

Horton said that everybody plays the hard holes the same so if teams can birdie the easy holes it will show in the scores at the end of the day.

After the team plays in Memphis this weekend it will head to St. Louis to play in the Purina Classic.

It will then finish out the fall season Oct. 25 at the Big 4 Championship in Cedar Rapids.