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Clemson Invitational
SMU To Play In The Clemson Invitational
Apr 6 | Men's Golf
The 54-Hole Tournament Runs Friday-Sunday, April 7-9
| SMU at the Clemson Invitational | |
| Dates |
Friday-Sunday; April 7 - April 9 |
| Location | The Cliffs at Keowee Falls Golf Course (Par 72 | Yards: 7,103) Salem, S.C. Course | Weather |
| Field |
No. 38 Alabama, Boston College, No. 18 Clemson, No. 63 College of Charleston, Elon, Furman, No. 21 Georgia Tech, No. 78 Louisville, No. 34 Michigan State, Navy, No. 70 SMU, No. 75 UNC-Wilmington, and Winthrop. |
| Live Stats | GolfStat |
| SMU M-Golf | SMU Mustangs | |
| @SMUGolfM | @SMUMustangs | |
The SMU men's golf team heads to Salem, S.C., to compete in the second annual Clemson Invitational. The three-day event will take place Friday-Sunday, April 7-9, at The Cliffs at Keowee Falls. Live results can be found on golfstat.com.
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THE COURSE: The 7,103-yard Cliffs at Keowee Falls Golf Course will play at par-72. The 160-acre Keowee Falls Nicklaus Signature Golf Course features beautiful natural surroundings, providing for an unmatched golf experience. Falls Creek, the course's namesake, winds through seven holes, as the course stretches across rolling terrain with numerous elevation changes, tree-lined fairways, and lengthy par-3s.
THE EVENT: The Clemson Invitational will feature 13 teams with all three teams playing 18 holes a day, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Live scoring will be available on golfstat.com. Play will begin on Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. ET/ 7:30 CT with teams going off the 1st and 10th tees. In the inaugural event, Clemson captured the team title, while Georgia Tech and Louisville tied for second. Winthrop finished fourth.
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THE FIELD:Â The 2017 edition of The Clemson Invitational will feature 13-teams: No. 38 Alabama, Boston College, No. 18 Clemson, No. 63 College of Charleston, Elon, Furman, No. 21 Georgia Tech, No. 78 Louisville, No. 34 Michigan State, Navy, No. 70 SMU, No. 75 UNC-Wilmington, and Winthrop. Ten teams return to the Clemson Invitation for the second straight year, while SMU, College of Charleston and Alabama make their first appearances.
REPRESENTING SMU (TEAM):
Andrew Buchanan
Alex Higgs
Gray Townsend
Daniel Connolly
Jackson Markham
RESULTS:Â 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: The SMU men's golf team shot a 5-over-par 285 on day three of The Goodwin to finish seventh in a field of 24 teams. The Mustangs carded a three-day total of 872 (+32, 284-303-285) to earn their third straight top-10 finish. Junior Gray Townsend fired a 2-under-par 68 on day three to climb 24 positions on the leaderboard and finish tied for 31st overall (+7, 75-74-68—217). The Winston-Salem, N.C., native posted an unblemished front-nine, with birdies on holes No. 1 and No. 9, before shooting an even back-nine.
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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:Â 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:Â 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:Â 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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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:Â 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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