Saint John's golf hosts its annual SJU Spring Invitational this Saturday and Sunday, April 25-26. – Live Scoring

THE SCHEDULE
-10 a.m. tee times at Wapicada G.C. (par 72) in St. Cloud
-10 a.m. shotgun start at Monticello C.C. (par 71) in Monticello

A LOOK AT THE JOHNNIES: Saint John's finished sixth of 16 teams last weekend (April 18-19) at Gustavus Adolphus' Bobby Krig Invitational. No. 23 Gustavus won its home tournament with a three-round total of 871 (+19). The Gusties shot the best round of the tournament in round two with a 286 (+2) and finished the day with a 289 (+5) in round three. GAC was followed by Bethel (+34/886) in second, Wisconsin-Eau Claire (+36/888), a tie between Carleton (+38/890) and St. Olaf (+38/890) and the Johnnies. 

SJU shot 909 (310-300-299) for the tournament and SJU Blue finished eighth with a 923 (310-303-310). 

Senior Tim Fultz (Stillwater, Minn./Stillwater Area) made the largest jump of the day Sunday, rocketing into a tie for 20th out of 97 golfers with classmate Ethan Kress (Woodbury, Minn.). Fultz finished 12-over par, posting a round-two 76 (+5) and a round-three 72 (+1) to lead SJU. Fultz played a clean third round, matching four bogeys with three birdies.

Kress hit a 75 in round two with a pair of birdies and nine pars and shot even or better for 13-consecutive holes for a 73 in round three. 

Junior Nate Appelhof (Blaine, Minn./Totino-Grace) carded a pair of Sunday eagles en route to 28th and a 15-over 228. He was one of 12 players over the weekend to shoot two-under on a hole and the only to do it twice. 

Sophomore Gavin Grahek (Maple Grove, Minn.) shot par on all but three holes in round two for a 75. He birdied three times in round three but hit six bogeys and three doubles for a 78 and 36th overall. 

Freshman Lukas Ehmke (Woodbury, Minn./East Ridge) rounded out SJU's top team in 63rd with a three-round total of 240 (83-78-79). Ehmke carded five birdies on Sunday but also hit bogey on nine occasions and doubled five times. 

Freshman Braxton Berlin (Lake City, Minn.) led SJU Blue in 20th alongside Fultz and Kress. Berlin hit a one-over par 72 in round two and two-over 74 in the final round with six total birdies. 

Freshman Austin Roloff (Minneapolis, Minn./Spring Lake Park) finished 26th with a 74 and 75 Sunday, followed by sophomore Connor O'Hara (Glenview, Ill./Glenbrook South) in 50th, sophomore Marty Timmons (Brainerd, Minn.) in 59th and sophomore Mac Drake (Sioux Falls, S.D./O'Gorman) in 63rd.

WHO WILL BE HERE: The Johnnies (three teams) are scheduled to be joined this weekend by Augsburg, Bethel (two teams), Carleton, Concordia-Moorhead, Gustavus Adolphus (two teams), Macalester, St. Olaf, Wisconsin-Eau Claire (two teams) and Wisconsin-Stout.

SJU'S LINEUP
SJU Red
1. Grahek
2. Kress
3. Fultz
4. Appelhof
5. Roloff

SJU Blue
1. Berlin
2. Ehmke
3. Briguet
4. Drake
5. O'Hara

SJU White
1. Timmons
2. Liveringhouse
3. Givens
4. Smith
5. C. Willette

Individuals
-Bruns
-Fogarty

LAST YEAR'S TOURNAMENT: SJU finished second, two shots from Gustavus, out of 15 teams at last year's spring invitational held April 26-27 (2025). Three Gusties carded a 3-under par 68 each as GAC fired a 278 (-6) during the final round at Monticello C.C. to erase SJU's five-shot lead and win the tournament by two shots with a two-round total of 574 (+2). The Johnnies posted a 1-over par 285 Sunday to finish with a 576 (+4), followed by Bethel (+20, 592) and Carleton (+30, 602). SJU led the tournament with a combined -14 on the par-5 holes and 34 birdies.

Four of the five Johnnies finished in the top 10, led by Fultz with his first collegiate medalist honor. He claimed first in the 85-man field with a two-day score of 141 (-2) and also led the tournament with a -6 on the par 5's.

Andrew Boemer '25 tied for sixth, his fifth top-10 finish of the season, with a 144 (+1). Grahek led the Johnnies in the final round with a season-low 69 (-2), thanks to an eagle on the par-4 No. 16 (355 yards), and placed eighth with a 145 (+2).

Kress totaled a team-best six birdies Sunday and tied with Will Gruidl '25, who was playing as an individual, for ninth with a 146 (+3). Gruidl tied for the tournament lead with 10 birdies.

Senior Gus Briguet (Woodbury, Minn./East Ridge) rounded out the Johnnies' five in a tie for 26th (+10, 153).

SJU Blue finished sixth with a 607 (+35) and was led by Appelhof and O'Hara, who both tied for 18th (+8, 151). O'Hara tied for second in the tourney with 25 pars.