Monday, October 24
Dallas, Texas
TBD
SMU
at
Royal Oaks Intercollegiate
SMU Set for Royal Oaks Intercollegiate
Oct 22 | Men's Golf
Mustangs tee off in Dallas at 8:30
| SMU at the Royal Oaks Intercollegiate | |
| Dates |
Oct. 24-25 |
| Location | Royal Oaks Country Club (Par 71, 7, 068 yards) Dallas, Texas Course | Weather |
| Field |
There are 11 teams participating in the 2016 Royal Oaks Intercollegiate: Baylor (host), Charlotte, Houston, Iowa, Kent State, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pepperdine, SMU and UT Arlington. Each team will have six players competing in the lineup. |
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The SMU men's golf team returns to action at the Royal Oaks Intercollegiate, Monday and Tuesday. The two-day event will be held at the Royal Oaks Country Club in Dallas. The 54-hole invitational, hosted by Baylor, will begin Monday at 8:30 a.m.
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THE EVENT: The Royal Oaks Country Club is a 7,068-yard track, which will play at par 71. The 2016 Royal Oaks Intercollegiate begins with practice rounds on Sunday, followed by a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. for 36 holes on Monday. Tuesday tees off at 8:15 a.m.
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THE FIELD: There are 11 teams participating in the 2016 Royal Oaks Intercollegiate: Baylor (host), Charlotte, Houston, Iowa, Kent State, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pepperdine, SMU and UT Arlington. Each team will have six players competing in the lineup.
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REPRESENTING SMU:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â INDIVIDUAL:
Gray Townsend                       Jackson Markham
Maxime Blandin
Andrew Buchanan
Ben Baxter
Alex Higgs
Daniel Connolly
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LAST TIME OUT: Junior Gray Townsend fired a 2-under 68 in the final round of the Marquette Intercollegiate to earn his first collegiate tournament win, and record a career-low tournament score of 207. Townsend finished tied with Ryan Lumsden of Northwestern. In the team competition, the SMU men's golf team carded the tournament's low round, 7-under-par (273) in the final round, to finish in fourth place (+6,846), and earn its first top five finish of the season. All four counting scorers finished even or sub-par. SMU including Townsend, the Mustangs had five top-25 finishes or better, with three finishing top-10.
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BAXTER, BUCHANAN WIN U.S. AMATEUR FOUR-BALL TITLE: SMU teammates Ben Baxter and Andrew Buchanan won the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship on May 25 after topping Brandon Cigna and Ben Warnquist, 3-and-2, at the Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y. All square through 11 in the championship match, Baxter gave the SMU duo its first lead, draining a par putt on the 12th to win the hole. The Mustangs capitalized on a missed putt by Warnquist on the 14th to take a 2-up advantage, before stretching the lead to three with a win on 15. On the 16th hole, Buchanan lagged a birdie putt within two feet of the pin, resulting in a victory conceding par.
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SMU EARNS GCAA ALL-ACADEMIC AWARD: The SMU men's golf team was named a 2016 All-Academic team, as selected by the Golf Coaches Association of America. SMU, which recorded a 3.37 team GPA, is one of 113 Division I teams to earn the honor.
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TRINITY FOREST: NEW HOME OF SMU GOLF: Scheduled to open in the fall of 2016, Trinity Forest Golf Club will become the new home course for SMU Golf. Trinity Forest will resemble many of the great old courses of the Northeast and Great Britain, featuring a links style course on a rolling meadow with tall native grasses and dramatic bunkering and green complexes. Once complete, Trinity Forest will become the new home of the PGA TOUR's AT&T Byron Nelson Championship as well as an NCAA invitational tournament and additional high-profile professional and amateur events.
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The team of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw – Coore & Crenshaw, Inc. – is building both the championship golf course as well as the short course. The design of Trinity Forest will honor classic golf courses with traditional, strategic golf and great artistry as the guiding philosophy.
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Located in the 6,000 acre Great Trinity Forest near the Trinity River Audubon Center about 10 minutes south of downtown Dallas, the 400 acre site will ultimately consist of an 18-hole championship golf course, a world-class practice facility, a clubhouse, a practice academy for SMU's golf teams, a teaching center for The First Tee of Greater Dallas.
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