The SMU men's golf team opens up the spring season with a trip to Houston for the All-American Intercollegiate, which runs Friday through Sunday. The tournament, hosted by Houston and Rice, will take place at the Golf Club of Houston.
 
THE EVENT: The Golf Club of Houston is a 7,096-yard track that plays at par 72. The three-day tournament will feature 18 holes per day. Rounds one and two will tee off starting at 8:30 a.m. off of holes 1 and 10. Round three tee times begin at 8 a.m. Sunday morning, with competitors starting on holes No. 1 and No. 10. 
 
THE FIELD: There are 18 teams participating in the 2018 All-American Intercollegiate: Host schools Houston and Rice, No. 5 Baylor, No. 8 Auburn, No. 13 Wake Forest, No. 34 South Carolina, No. 47 Mississippi, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Georgia State, Lamar, McNeese State, North Texas, Sam Houston State, SMU, South Alabama, Southeastern Louisiana and UTSA.
 
REPRESENTING SMU: Competing for the Mustangs will be McClure Meissner, Noah Goodwin, Daniel Connolly, Jackson Markham, Clancy Waugh.
 
RESULTS: Live results will be posted on Golfstat.com. Full recaps from each day of competition will be posted on SMUMustangs.com at the end of each round.
 
LAST TIME ON THE GREEN: Senior Gray Townsend and Freshman McClure Meissner each grabbed top-10 finishes as SMU closed out its fall slate at the Battle of Stono Ferry. Townsend used a 2-under final round to finish sixth individually, while Meissner finished tied for seventh. Townsend finished the tournament at 7-under, going under par in all three rounds (69-70-70—209). The Winston Salem, N.C., native rolled in five birdies on the final day and finished the tournament with 13, the most of any Mustang. Meissner was a stroke back from Townsend, finishing at 6-under (68-70-72). His first round score of 4-under was the best round by a Mustang at the tournament.
 
UP NEXT: SMU has a quick turnaround and heads to Westlake Village, Calif., to play in the Southwestern Invitational. The event, which is hosted by Pepperdine, will be played Feb. 26-27 at the North Ranch Country Club.
 
Noah Goodwin – 2018 SPRING ADDITION: Amateur-standout Noah Goodwin joins the SMU golf team this spring after graduating early from Laurel Springs School. Goodwin completed a stellar junior career by being named Rolex Junior Player of the Year in 2017. He is the fifth male in AJGA history to earn the title in consecutive years. The highlight of his junior career was winning the 2017 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship. He is one of only three players to win the championship after losing in the final the year before. He represented the United States team in the 2017 Junior Presidents Cup and 2016 Junior Ryder Cup.
 
World Amateur Ranking: No. 14
AJGA (before SMU): No. 1

SMU SIGNS FOUR: SMU men's golf and head coach Jason Enloe announce the addition of four talented players to the 2018 squad as Noah Goodwin, Ben Wong, Charles Osbourne and Tyson Dinsmore signed to compete at SMU.
 
"Coach Chris Parra and myself are extremely pleased with the 2018 class we have put together for the SMU Men's Golf program," SMU head coach Jason Enloe said. "Years of hard work have finally paid off with one of the nation's top overall classes. We believe that these four players, along with our current players, and future players, will serve SMU well as we strive to be one of the top programs in the country.  We are honored that these great golfers and young men have chosen our program to help them reach for their goals both on and off the course."
 
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SMU DEDICATES PAYNE STEWART SMU GOLF TRAINING CENTER: SMU Athletics dedicated the new Payne Stewart SMU Golf Training Center at Trinity Forest Golf Club. The facility, among the finest in college golf, was made possible through the support of generous donors Ann Park Roberts Gibbs '66 and James R. Gibbs '66, '70, '72, Carolyn L. Miller and David B. Miller '72, '73 and the David B. Miller Family Foundation, The Dedman Foundation and family, and the Payne Stewart Family Foundation, Inc. Many additional donors also contributed generously to this initiative. The 6,700-square foot facility features team locker rooms, coaches' offices, a conference room, a workout center and kitchen. The center also houses a hitting bay featuring premier equipment, including the Swing Catalyst, which tracks weight shift throughout the swing as well as four video motion-capture cameras and monitors to show swings. A TrackMan system uses dual radar technology to track both club movement and the ball at the moment of impact.  This equipment provides the perfect foundation for analysis, enabling the Mustang golfers to use real-time data to improve their games. The Payne Stewart SMU Golf Training Center also includes 70,000 square feet of teeing ground, a 45,000 square-foot putting and chipping green and a challenging nine-hole short course.
 
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CONNOLLY BRINGS HARDWARE TO DALLAS (Summer Golf): Sophomore Daniel Connolly shot a 5-under par 208 (68-69-71) to win the Northern California Golf Association (NCGA) Amateur Stroke Play Championship at the Poppy Hills Golf Course. Connolly recorded the low-round and was the only player to break par on the opening day, firing a 3-under par 68. The San Francisco native padded his lead and took a five stroke advantage into the final day after a low-round 69 (-2) in round two. Despite a double bogey early in the final round, Connolly rebounded and shot even par (71) to secure the victory.
 
TOWNSEND NAMED 2016 AAC ALL-CONFERNECE: SMU men's golfer Gray Townsend was named to the All-American Athletic Conference Team. The Winston-Salem, N.C., native tallied three top-25 finishes, including his first collegiate tournament win. At the Marquette Intercollegiate, the junior carded a career-low tournament score of 207, en route to his first career win. At the American Athletic Conference Championship, Townsend fired an even-par 213 to finish tied for third. Townsend played in all 11 tournaments for the Mustangs and averaged a score of 73.88. He tallied nine rounds at par or better this season, with four in the 60s.
 
TOWNSEND WINS FIRST COLLEGIATE TOURNAMENT: Senior Gray Townsend fired a 2-under 68 in the final round of the 2016 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.
 
BAXTER, BUCHANAN WIN U.S. AMATEUR FOUR-BALL TITLE: SMU's Ben Baxter and former SMU golfer 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.
 
COACHING STAFF: The men's golf team is led by fourth-year head coach Jason Enloe, an SMU alum who golfed for the Mustangs from 1991-1996. Enloe returned to SMU in 2012 as the assistant coach, after a 14-year professional golf career, playing on the PGA/Nationwide Tour, the Canadian Tour, Golden Bear Your and the Adams Tour. He won the Nationwide's Fort Smith Classic in 2009 and the Pete Dye Classic in 2006. He played on the 1997 U.S. World Amateur Team and has twice reached the latter stages of match play at the U.S. Amateur. Assisting Enloe is Chris Parra, a fourth-year assistant coach. Parra played at SMU from 1996-1998, before going pro in 1999. Following his collegiate career, Parra competed professionally for 14 years until 2014. Parra spent most of his professional career on the Web.com Tour where he played 36 events, garnishing one top-10 finish and four top-25 finishes. His best finish came in 2010, where he finished tied for seventh at the Fort Smith Classic. In 2006, Parra made his first PGA Tour appearance in the EDS Byron Nelson Championship, where he made the cut and finished 72nd overall. Later in his professional career, he played in the LatinoAm and the PGA Canada Tour. At the 2013 U.S. Open Local Sectional Qualifying, Parra carded a 70 to finish tied for second.

SMU LAUNCHES STATE-WIDE BRANDING CAMPAIGN: SMU Athletics and SMU are launching a state-wide branding campaign, featuring billboards, train and bus wraps and airport signage. Nearly 20 billboards will go up across Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio and Waco, while Dallas public transportation and Love Field will also get SMU branding.