Delisanti achieves the best round 3

It was hole 18 of the third NCAA urbana regionally and even in the closing moments of its four-year, completed collegiate career of the Valparaiso University Men's Golf Senior Anthony Delisanti (Sanborn, Ny. / Niagara Wheatfield) still found new ways to impress us.
With the dark Valpo -Polo and the dark cap with the golden “V”, which was embroidered on the front -and his sunglasses as usual on the back of his hat -for the last time in his collegiate career on the back of his hat, Delisanti set up a birdie putt when he prepared to take a last swing as a Beacon. When the ball fell into the trophy, a Par-4 birds ended an outstanding round and a last vintage delisanti tarteering boost at 18.
The Valpo legend, which one day will take its place to the largest, which our institution in the Valpo Athletics Hall of Fame ever represented, carded an 18-hole score of 65 (-6) in the last round on Wednesday and led the entire 75-player field in the round 3 point at the Par-71, 7533-Yard in the Golf Club. In a field in which all best players in the Midwest and some of the best players in the country were presented-one of the No. 1 player in the nation, 15 players among the top 100 and three among the top 12 were all alone on the round 3 round.
“The challenges of the consistent ball and firing in the first 27 holes of the tournament were overcome in Anthony's last 27 holes,” said Valpo head coach Dave Gring. “After going away the ninth green and Anthony was on the 10th tee yesterday, I told him that he should simply forget the first half of the tournament and concentrate on ending the second half of the tournament well. The reset worked and Anthony played his last 27 holes at the age of eight.”
His 65 on Wednesday took sixth place in the program history, behind only his own five rounds of 64 or better. His score in relation to par from Six Under was the sixth place in the program history behind four of his rounds and one of Caleb vanarragons.
Delisantis Majestic Tag-Die was played over head with light sunshine under beautiful conditions, but after a 30-minute morning fog delay, which put all the tea times back, opened nine with a birdie festival. He had four holes in a six-hole route of two to seven, three par 4s and a par 5.
After Delisanti-der Wednesday, along with Kentuckys Jack Schoenberger and NC State's Nick Mathews, had made the curve with 32 (-4), three more birdies had on the first five holes on the back nine. He had a clean scorecard through hole 15 and was seven strokes under par. The native New York hit his lonely Blip of the day on the 16th and 17 with two bogeys before he ended with the birdie mentioned above on the 18th a hole that he had bent the day before.
During his patented round 3 thrust, Delisanti rose to 34 places on the player ranking.
Output of a regional top 20 finish at T-18 with a 54-hole point number of 213 (E).
“Many things have to go outside to play a good round here,” said Delisanti. “Many things went in my way today. I drove it quite perfectly today. A few more putts went into it today. I have to be outside on the fairway. I know that I said it at the beginning of the week, and the first two days that I was not on the fairway enough. I probably made 10 or 11 fairways today, and that was a big difference.”
Delisanti ended a career value of 71.15 over 131 laps and broke the program record that was previously held by his former teammate Caleb Vanarragonwho ended his five -year career in 2024 with 71.24. Delisanti ended this season with an average of 30 rounds of 69.70, the second in the program history and a stroke with a eight -dog tist.
“It was a real pleasure for me to go the last 18 holes with Anthony today and to be part of one of his best rounds of the year and the best career,” said Gring. “Anthony Hit Nine of 14 Fairways in Regulation and the Five He Missed Were Within A Foot Or Two of the Fairway. He Hit 14 of 18 Greens in Regulation and He Got Up-and-Down on Three Of The Four Hole He Missed in Regulation. Putts, One Six-Foot Birdie Putt, Three Seven-Foot Birdie Putts and a Nine-Foot Birdie Putt on his final hole.
Delisanti started regional by struggling on Monday and five strokes over Par. He improved on Tuesday to +1, but still remained his high standards. His legacy was already set and its place under Valpos all -time sizes in all already established sports, but in the last round on Wednesday everyone knew that such a career should not end with an acidic note. And he made sure it wouldn't.

Before they removed the 18^TH Green, Delisanti, shared a warm hug with the long -standing Valpo head coach Dave Gring, who recruited Delisanti for Valpo and had maintained a special relationship with him in the past four years. Only a few minutes after Delisanti got out of the last hole and was filmed in his last collegiate scorecard, he stood near the first tee – about 10 feet from the point where he had round of the special round about five hours earlier – this time with his sunglasses on the traditional location, which covered his eyes over the past four years.


“It is difficult to put it into words now,” he said. “I am glad that I was able to end it well. Everyone has done a great praise. He did everything for me, he and coach Ron (Gring) have made me a better player until today. I can't thank both enough. If I need them, Valpo will always be there for me.”


The individual hunter of Michigan, Thomson, became a regional medalist and won the only individual qualification place for the upcoming NCAA championships. He achieved a 54-hole score of 203 (69-67-67). Delisanti was the top of the seven golfers of the Missouri Valley Conference (Five Illinois State, One Murray State, One Valpo). Illinois State ended the 10^TH From 13, while No. 14 Illinois, No. 2 No. 2 State, No. 35 UnlV, Troy and No. 23 Texas Tech were the five advancing teams that ended the regionally in this order.


“The leadership, competitiveness and reliability that all four of our seniors demonstrated this year was very impressive for me,” said Gring. “I'm grateful for Anthony DelisantiPresent Sam BoothPresent Grant Norman And Sam Schmidt And how you led our team in practice, to the golf course in competition and in the classroom. The team profit percentage, the amount of tournament profits, the records and the grades that the four of these seniors have reached at Valpo in their time are really remarkable. You really collected the bar for our program and were a representation of us in the NCAA tournament for four years in a row. While I will miss the next year to compete with these boys, our entire team and I can hardly wait to see what they achieve in their jobs according to Valparaiso University. “


The round on Wednesday was a suitable end to Delisanti and reminded us of so many of these special rounds in the past four years, starting with his remarkable six-end-big nine at Missouri Valley Conference Championship 2022 to gather a medalist with a newcomer with 213, 74-72-67). He repeated his MVC title in 2023 with a 200 (66-64-70) and then saved his best work for the post-season game in 2024 and won the National Golf Invitational with a 201 (71-62-68).


Now he will convert the page into the next chapter of his golf career.


“I will remain most of the summer amateur,” said Delisanti. “I will play a lot of amateur tournaments this summer. I have a few exceptions that I'm looking forward to. I am looking forward to a Korn Ferry Tour event in Chicago at the end of July, and then we will see what happens, hopefully a few more sponsor exceptions, and then I will try to follow Calebs foot strains and play with it.”