SMU Set For The Maxwell

SMU at The Maxwell
Dates	Friday-Saturday; April 14 - April 15 Friday • 36 holes • 8:30 a.m. CT \| Shotgun Start Saturday • 18 holes • 9 a.m. CT \| 6-14 Shotgun Start, 1-5 Tee from 1st
Location	Oak Tree Country Club – East Course (Par 70 \| Yards: 7,102) Edmond, Okla. Course \| Weather
Field	No. 45 Augusta, No. 3 Baylor, No. 25 Colorado, East Carolina, No. 49 Liberty, Memphis, No. 48 New Mexico, North Texas, No. 13 Oklahoma, No. 2 Oklahoma State, SMU, UCLA, UTSA and Wichita State.
Live Video	Fox Sports Southwest \| Fox College Sports Pacific \| Fox Sports Go App PBP: Chad McKee Analysts: Lance Ringler (Golfweek) and Hunter Haas Live: Friday, 1:30-6:30 p.m. CT
Live Stats	GolfStat
Facebook	SMU M-Golf \| SMU Mustangs
Twitter	@SMUGolfM \| @SMUMustangs

The SMU men's golf team heads to Edmond, Okla., to compete in The Maxwell. The two-day event will take place Friday-Saturday, April 14-15, at the Oak Tree Country Club. Fans can follow via live video or live results.

THE COURSE: The Oak Tree Country Club East Course is a 7,102-yard track that will play at par-70. The East Course continues to serve as host venue for the highly-regarded Oklahoma Open, traditionally one of the most sought-after state titles in the land. It's a bunker-strewn landscape, humps and hollows wreaking havoc with shots drifting from the short grass.

THE EVENT: The Maxwell will feature 14 teams with all teams playing 36 holes on Friday, before wrapping up on Saturday with 18. Play opens at 8:30 a.m. CT Friday in a shotgun start, with the second round to follow that afternoon. The final round (Saturday) tees of starting at 9 a.m., with teams 6-14 beginning with a shotgun start. Teams 1-5, beginning with the fifth place team, will tee off from hole No. 1 starting at 9 a.m. CT.
THE FIELD: The 2017 edition of The Maxwell will feature 14-teams: No. 45 Augusta, No. 3 Baylor, No. 25 Colorado, East Carolina, No. 49 Liberty, Memphis, No. 48 New Mexico, North Texas, No. 13 Oklahoma, No. 2 Oklahoma State, SMU, UCLA, UTSA and Wichita State.
REPRESENTING SMU (TEAM):
Andrew Buchanan
Daniel Connolly
Alex Higgs
Gray Townsend
Jackson Markham

WATCH LIVE: The Maxwell golf tournament will be televised live by Sooner Sports TV on Friday from 1:30-6:30 p.m. CT on Fox Sports Southwest and Fox College Sports Pacific. The broadcast will cover the second round of the 54-hole, two-day tournament held in Edmond, Okla., at Oak Tree Country Club. Streaming will also be available through the FOX Sports GO app with cable package authentication.

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.

LAST TIME OUT: Highlighted by two top-20 finishers, the SMU men's golf finished fourth at the Clemson Invitational, Sunday, at the Cliffs at Keowee Falls Golf Course. Senior Andrew Buchanan finished play tied for ninth at 1-over-par (75-68-74—217) after a 2-over-par third round. The Los Altos, Calif., native finished the tournament with 12 birdies. Freshman Daniel Connolly climbed one position on the leaderboard to finish tied for 15th at 4-over-par (78-68-74-220). He shot a 2-over-par (74) in the final round.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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Ben Baxter

Andrew Buchanan

Daniel Connolly

Alex Higgs

Jackson Markham

Gray Townsend

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