Thursday, March 30
Stanford, Calif.
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The Goodwin
SMU Travels To Stanford For The Goodwin
Mar 28 | Men's Golf
The 54-Hole Tournament Runs Thursday-Saturday, March 30-April 1
| SMU at The Goodwin | |
| Dates |
Thursday- Saturday; March 30-April 1 |
| Location | Stanford Golf Course (Par 70 | Yards: 6,727) Stanford, Calif. Course | Weather |
| Field |
BYU, Cal Poly, Chico State, No. 18 Colorado, Colorado State, Fresno State, Marquette, Nevada, Northern Colorado, No. 10 Oregon, Oregon State, Pacific, Pepperdine, San Jose State, SMU, St. Mary's, No. 12 Stanford, UC Davis, UCLA, No. 17 UNLV, No. 1 USC, USF, Washington and Wyoming. |
| Live Stats | GolfStat |
| SMU M-Golf | SMU Mustangs | |
| @SMUGolfM | @SMUMustangs | |
The SMU men's golf team heads to Stanford, Calif., to compete in the 49th edition of The Goodwin. The three-day event will take place Thursday-Saturday, March 30 – April 1, at the Stanford Golf Course (par 70, 6,727 yards). Live results can be found on golfstat.com.
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THE COURSE: The 6,727-yard Stanford Golf Course lies in the foothills overlooking Stanford's campus and will play at par-70. The course has hosted a number of notable events, including the Stanford Intercollegiate, Peg Barnard Intercollegiate, Pac-10 Championships, NCAA Regional, NCAA Women's Championships, USGA Junior Amateur Qualifying, U.S. Open Qualifying, and The Gathering at the Farm.
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THE EVENT:Â The Goodwin will span three days and feature 54 holes of stroke play. All three rounds begin at 9:30 a.m. CT/7:30 PT. SMU will be paired with St. Mary's and Colorado State in rounds one and two, before being assigned partners in round three. Formerly known as the United States Intercollegiate, Stanford's 49-year-old tournament was renamed The Goodwin prior to the 2014 edition in honor of former Stanford men's golf coach, Wally Goodwin. During the 2014-15 season, SMU was crowned Co-Champs at The Goodwin finishing 23-under-par.
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THE FIELD: Â The 2017 edition of The Goodwin will feature 24-teams: BYU, Cal Poly, Chico State, No. 18 Colorado, Colorado State, Fresno State, Marquette, Nevada, Northern Colorado, No. 10 Oregon, Oregon State, Pacific, Pepperdine, San Jose State, SMU, St. Mary's, No. 12 Stanford, UC Davis, UCLA, No. 17 UNLV, No. 1 USC, USF, Washington and Wyoming.
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REPRESENTING SMU (TEAM):
Andrew Buchanan
Alex Higgs
Gray Townsend
Daniel Connolly
Henrik Olsson
RESULTS: Live results will be available during tournament play at golfstat.com. Tournament results will be posted at SMUMustangs.com at the end of each day of competition.
"THE FARM":Â Stanford's campus has been infamously nicknamed "The Farm" after the university was established on founder's Leland and Jane Stanford's Palo Alto stock farm. The university still has a Victorian barn, known as the Red Barn, on campus.
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LAST TIME OUT: Senior Andrew Buchanan shot a 1-under-par 71 on the final day of the Southern Highlands Collegiate to record his third top-25 finish this season. The Los Altos, Calif., native finished the tournament tied for 12th at 2-under-par (71-72-71—214). As a team, SMU shot 16-over-par (304) to finish the tournament in 10th place (287-296-304—887). The Mustangs finished above No. 22 San Diego State, No. 25 Arizona State and No. 49 New Mexico.
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TOWNSEND WINS FIRST COLLEGIATE TOURNAMENT: 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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2015-16 RECAP: The Mustangs finished top 10 in eight of nine tournaments and was top five in four events, including two victories. SMU closed out the fall with its first victory at the Erin Hills Intercollegiate, before opening the spring season with a win at the Farms Collegiate Invitational.
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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 U.S. AMATEUR SUCCESS: Since 1998, four Mustangs have won the U.S. Amateur, more than any collegiate program during that span. DeChambeau is the fourth joining the class consisted of Kelly Kraft (2011), Colt Knost (2007) and Hank Kuehne (1998).
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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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SCHEDULE CHANGE: Following the cancellation of the Primland Collegiate Invitational, the SMU men's golf team will play in the 2017 Southwestern Invitational on Feb. 27-28, SMU head coach Jason Enloe announced. The Southwestern Invitational is hosted by Pepperdine and will be held at the North Ranch Country Club in Westlake Village, Calif. Prior to the addition of SMU, the field consisted of Augusta, Fresno State, Lipscomb, Michigan, Mississippi State, Oregon State, Pepperdine (host), San Diego State, UC Davis, USC and Washington State.
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WELCOME TO THE HILLTOP: SMU head coach Jason Enloe has announced the addition of two student-athletes for the 2017-18 season, as McClure Meissner and Justin Thompson have signed National Letters of Intent to join the Mustangs.
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McClure "Mac" Meissner makes his way to the Hilltop from San Antonio, Texas, where he attends Alamo Heights High School. He is currently ranked 49th by Golfweek and 72nd in the AJGA Polo rankings, after multiple event wins and eight top-10 American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) event finishes.
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Justin Thompson, a Dallas native, will stay in north Texas and join SMU after finishing at Trinity Christian Academy. In 2016, Thompson was named to the All-TJGT Team after multiple event wins and top 10 finishes. While at Trinity Christian, he was a four-year letterwinner under Marshall Edwards, serving as the golf team captain his senior year, and winning the team's MVP award his junior year.
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TRINITY FOREST: NEW HOME OF SMU GOLF: Designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, the championship course at Trinity Forest Golf Club adheres to their design philosophy that traditional, strategic golf is the most rewarding. Built in the Great Trinity Forest and surrounded on its edges by thousands of majestic hardwood trees, the classic links-style course artistically meanders through an open meadow of rolling, rumpled sand recalling the wind swept land of Great Britain or the Northeastern US.
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The Club is located less than 10 minutes from downtown Dallas on Great Trinity Forest Way, and the facilities include an 18-hole championship golf course, a world-class practice academy, and a short course, all designed by Coore and Crenshaw.
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Trinity Forest will become the future home of the PGA TOUR's AT&T Byron Nelson Championship as well as annually host an NCAA invitational tournament and additional high-profile professional and amateur events. The Club is also the new home course for SMU's golf team.
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