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Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters
No. 17 Men's Golf preview: SH Collegiate Masters
03.06.2014 | Men's Golf
The Longhorns travel to Sin City for the 2014 edition of the Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters.
UP NEXT: Texas (No. 17 Golfweek/Sagarin) travel to Las Vegas for the Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters.
WHERE: Southern Highlands Golf Club (par 72, 7,510 yards)
WHEN: Friday, March 7 – Sunday, March 9
TEE TIMES: Play will begin at 10 a.m. Central off Nos. 1 and 10. Texas will be paired alongside Texas Tech and Texas A&M in the first round, teeing off the 10th hole starting at 10:27 a.m. Second and third-round pairings will be based off team standings.
THE TOURNAMENT FIELD (including 11 of the Top 20 per the March 6 edition of the Golfweek/Sagarin rankings): No. 1 Alabama, No. 30 Arizona State, No. 4 California, No. 5 Georgia, No. 2 Georgia Tech, No. 19 New Mexico, No. 14 Oklahoma, No. 3 Oklahoma State, No. 9 Stanford, No. 45 TCU, No. 17 Texas, No. 6 Texas A&M, No. 50 Texas Tech, No. 20 UCLA, No. 37 UNLV
LAST TIME OUT: Four Longhorns collected top 10 finishes as the then-No. 20 Texas Men's Golf team matched its season-best finish of second place at the Bayou City Intercollegiate Championship (Feb. 21-23) at the Golf Club of Houston. Junior Kramer Hickok registered a career-best tie for second place at 7-under 209 (71-70-68), while freshman Gavin Hall (69-71-70=210) and senior Toni Hakula (73-69-68=210) finished tied for fifth place. Freshman Beau Hossler's three-round total of 4-under 212 (72-71-69) tied him for 10th place overall.
LAST YEAR AT SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS COLLEGIATE MASTERS: Kramer Hickok fired a 3-under-par 69 in the final round of the Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters to lead the then-No. 2 Texas Men's Golf team with a 31st-place individual finish. As a team, the Longhorns (306-302-293=901) also saved their best collective round for last as they carded 5-over 293 and finished 12th place on the team leaderboard.
LIVE SCORING: Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters
TEXAS LINEUP
No. 1 – Kramer Hickok
- Finished tied for second place in his second tournament of the season after missing the fall season due to a right wrist injury sustained during the summer
- Leads Texas with a 70.00 scoring average through six rounds this season
- Shot a career-low 66 in the second round of the 2013 NCAA Championship
- Appeared in the Texas lineup 10 times last season, where 24-of-30 (.800) competitive rounds counted towards the final team score
No. 2 – Gavin Hall
- Four Top 25 finishes in his first six events as a Longhorn
- Recorded a season-best tied for fifth place finish at the Bayou City Intercollegiate Championship
- Finished at even-par 210 (76-71-73) at the Jerry Pate, making him one of just two Longhorns to finish a tournament at par or better during the fall season
No. 3 – Toni Hakula
- Recorded a season-best tie for fifth place finish at the Bayou City Intercollegiate Championship
- No. 47 Men's Collegiate Individual per Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings
- 2013 British Am runner-up
- Finished at 1-under 215 (73-71-71) at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational, making him one of just two Longhorns to finish a tournament at par or better during the fall season
No. 4 – Beau Hossler
- Recorded a career-best tie for 10th place at Bayou City Intercollegiate Championship
- Making his seventh appearance in the Texas lineup
No. 5 – Brax McCarthy
- Finished T-46 (75-75-70=220) at the Bayou City Intercollegiate Championship
- Making his sixht appearance in the Texas lineup this year