The University of Colorado sophomore recorded two top-10 finishes during the break, including his 10th-place showing out of a 135-player field on Saturday at The Goodwin at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco.
The performance comes on the heels of the Englishman’s career-best second-place finish last weekend at the Kansas State Bighorn Invitational.
O’Loughlin (pictured in a CU photo by Chip Bromfield), carded scores of 73-66-70 in San Francisco, which gave him a three-day total of 4-under-par 209. He made 13 birdies over the course of 54 holes. It was his third top-10 of the season for the sophomore, who also ended up fifth in the season-opening Miranda Invitational in September. Norman Xiong of Oregon claimed the individual title Saturday with a 198 total.
CU put three players in the top 30 as the Buffs tied for sixth in the 26-team field. Also finishing highly for Colorado were senior Yannik Paul of Germany (20th place at 212) and freshman Trevor Olkowski of Grand Junction (27th place at 213).
Northern Colorado, led by Joshua Matz, finished 25th as a team on Saturday.
The Goodwin
March 29-31, 2018 (final) in San Francisco
6. (out of 26 teams) Colorado 287-278-288–853
10. Daniel O’Loughlin 73-66-70–209
20. Yannik Paul 70-72-70–212
27. Trevor Olkowski 71-66-76–213
92. Spencer Painton 73-76-74–223
101. John Souza 77-74-74–225
25. Northern Colorado 302-303-294–899
92. Joshua Matz 72-79-72–223
99. Coby Welch 78-71-75–224
101. Sam Marley 75-78-72–225
118. Andrew Romano 77-77-75–229
133. Li Chen 80-77-80–237
Also
65. Coloradan Coloradan Kyler Dunkle, Utah 70-75-74–219
101. Coloradan Glenn Workman, Wyoming 76-73-76–225
Heisele (pictured), a German who played at CU from 2008 through ’11, shot four consecutive sub-par rounds at Doha Golf Club, going 67-68-71-68 for a 14-under-par 274 total. That left him four strokes behind champion Eddie Pepperell of England.
In Sunday’s final round, Heisele carded six birdies and two bogeys to move up eight spots on the leaderboard. The eighth-place showing was worth 33,605 euros to him.
All three of Heisele’s top-10 finishes on the European Tour have come since May. He was a career-best third in September at the KLM Open, and placed fourth in May at the Open de Portugal.
But Sunday marked the former Buff’s first made cut on the European circuit since early December.
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The 28-year-old German posted rounds of 64-70-71-72 for a 15-under-par 277 total. That left him six strokes behind champion Matt Wallace of England. The showing was worth 23,100 euros for Heisele, giving him 79,051 euros for the season, good for 114th place on the season money list.
Heisele has recorded top-20 finishes each of his last two starts on the European Tour, where he’s a rookie.
Elsewhere in professional tour golf this past week, former CU golfer Alexis Keating placed third at The Cactus Tour’s Las Colinas-Dallas Cup in Queen Creek, Ariz. Keating carded rounds of 64-70-68 for a 14-under-par 202 total, leaving her three shots behind winner Kyung Kim of Chandler, Ariz.