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No. 18 Men's Golf wins East Lake Cup
10.30.2019 | Men's Golf
Freshman Travis Vick clinches win on 18th hole.
ATLANTA — The No. 18 Texas men's golf team defeated Oklahoma State in the championship match to capture the 2019 East Lake Cup. Sophomore Parker Coody, senior Spencer Soosman, and freshman Travis Vick all won their matches to secure the victory for the Longhorns in the final tournament of the fall schedule.
Travis Vick sinks the winning putt for @TexasMGolf at the #EastLakeCup! 🤘#NCAAGolf pic.twitter.com/gbVa9mryaQ
— Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) October 30, 2019
"I'm really excited for our guys. Anytime you win it's a big deal," head coach John Fields said. "To come in here and get a victory at East Lake, shoot 10-under par in the [stroke] play round and really make a little bit of a statement - not to anybody else, but to ourselves - because we need a little bit of validation. We know we're a good team, but we just hadn't seen anything positive."
Soosman closed out his match on No.15 with a 5&3 victory. Vick and Coody won their matches 1UP, with Vick accounting for the championship-clinching point to seal the win.
The threat of serious weather held off long enough for the men and women to be able to finish their rounds, however, the conditions were less than ideal with intermittent rain and wind.
"The weather was really, really tough," Vick said. "It was a little bit windy and it was rainy, so there's a lot of towels being wet and little factors that come into play. So being able to come out on top and for our team to win is really neat."
As Texas wraps up their season with an East Lake Cup win and heads into the offseason, Fields believes that the positives that will come out of this win will motivate and drive his team into the spring.
"All the positives that are going to come out of this particular semester are really good and we get to enjoy [it] just a little bit more because of this win. The kids will all take an unbelievable amount of experience [away] and the pressure was significant," Fields said.
Quick Quotes
"I can't ask for more as a coach," - Coach Fields on East Lake Cup win
"It was an incredible experience. The volunteers were fantastic, the venue, East Lake, is incredible. Being able to walk the grounds of all the professional golfers is neat,"- Travis Vick on his first East Lake Cup experience
