Ex-Wildcat star leads golf team at Kalamazoo College

Wayland High School graduate and Kalamazoo College sophomore Tyler Omness of the men’s golf team has been named the SAAC Men’s Hornet of the Week.

The Hornets competed last week in the first two MIAA Jamborees of the season. In the first jamboree at the Wuskowhan Players Club, Kalamazoo finished the day with a score of 326 and came in fifth. The team was six strokes better in the second Jamboree at the Pine River Country Club, but finished in sixth place. Overall through two tournaments, the Hornets sit in fifth in the MIAA. 

Leading the way in both tournaments was Omness, who has been the best Hornet golfer this season. He shot a 77 at Jamboree #1 and then a 74 in the second, tying his best round of the year. Omness just missed the top 10 at Wuskowhan, tying for 11th place. He then jumped into the top-10 at Pine River after tying for eighth. 

In his first collegiate season last year, there were only two other rounds that Omness shot better than a 74. Both rounds came during MIAA play with a 71 at Zollner and a 70 at PohlCat in the MIAA Fall Final first round.