Pieters named Big Ten Golfer of the Week
Updated: March 6, 2013
PARK RIDGE, Ill.
(UI Release) - University of Illinois junior Thomas Pieters was named Big Ten Men's
Golfer of the Week, the conference office announced Wednesday. Pieters
helped lead the Illini to their second
championship at the Louisiana Classics in the last three years with a
final-round 68 on Tuesday.
Pieters tied for
fifth at the Louisiana Classics with a 1-under-par 215, jumping 15 spots
on the final day with his four-under-par round. That was his seventh
round under par in five tournaments in 2012-13,
and it marks the second weekly award of his career and first this
season. He joins teammates Thomas Detry (Feb. 13), Brian Campbell (Feb.
20) and Mason Jacobs (Feb. 20) as Big Ten weekly honorees this spring.
