CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. – After three seasons of finishing painfully close to the individual top spot in a collegiate men's golf tournament – ten total top-10 finishes over his three-plus years with Illinois State – senior David Perkins was finally able to land a medalist honor as he ran away from the field at the 2019 Golfweek Conference Challenge with a 10-under-par 206 on the weekend, three strokes better than the next closest golfer.
Perkins was one of just two golfers in the field to shoot under par in all three rounds, as he closed his tournament with a final-round one-under 71, paced by three birdies over his final four holes.