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No. 7 Men’s Golf preview: Big 12 Championship
04.25.2021 | Men's Golf
The Longhorns return to Hutchinson, Kansas for the 2021 conference tournament.
AUSTIN, Texas – The No. 7 Texas men's golf team head to Hutchinson, Kansas this week, where the Longhorns will look to win yet another Big 12 title at the Prairie Dunes Country Club. The Big 12 Championship has been played in Hutchinson on 12 occasions previously, with Texas winning three of those tournaments, including each of the last two (2013, 2017). The 2017 tournament at Prairie Dunes was also UT's most recent Big 12 title as a team.
2021 Big 12 Men's Golf Championship
April 26-28, 2021
Where: Hutchinson, Kan. (Prairie Dunes Country Club)
Format: 36 holes on Monday, 18 holes on Tuesday & Wednesday
Par/Yardage: 70/6,947
Field: Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas, Texas Tech, West Virginia
Lineup: Pierceson Coody, Cole Hammer, Travis Vick, Mason Nome, Parker Coody, Christoffer Bring
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Notes
• The Texas men's golf team begins it spring slate in pursuit of the program's 48th conference championship, and first since 2017.
• Texas' 2021 lineup features three former All-Americans in Parker Coody, Pierceson Coody and Cole Hammer. The Coody twins each earned honorable mention in 2019 and first-team recognition last season, while Hammer was a 2019 first-team honoree.
• For the second-straight year, Pierceson Coody, Cole Hammer and Travis Vick were all featured on preseason watch list for the Fred Haskins Award, collegiate golf's highest individual honor.
• Parker Coody and Vick both made the cut on the final Fred Haskins Award watch list following the Longhorns' 2020 fall slate.
• The Haskins Award, celebrating its 50th year, has been won previously by five Longhorns on seven occasions. That list of UT greats is made up by three-time winner Ben Crenshaw (1971-73), Bob Estes (1987), Justin Leonard (1994), Brad Elder (1997) and Beau Hossler (2016).
• The Longhorns finished third at the East Lake Cup back in October, falling to Oklahoma, 3-2-0, in the semifinals before sweeping Texas Tech, 5-0-0, in the consolation match.
• Texas' 2021 slate was originally scheduled to open at the All-American Intercollegiate on Feb. 14-16, but the tournament was postponed due to severe winter weather across the state of Texas.
• Hunter Ostrom neared earned his first medalist honor as a Longhorn at the Border Olympics on Feb. 23. The grad transfer finished the 54-hole event at 4-under par, but was bested by Texas A&M's Dan Erickson on the second playoff hole. Christoffer Bring (-3; 3rd) and Mason Nome (-1, T5th) each also recorded a top-five finish individually as the Horns finished in second as a team.
• Texas picked up its first team win of the 2020-21 season on its home track in mid-March, winning the George Hannon Collegiate by eight shots. Pierceson Coody also earned individual medalist honors, the first win of his collegiate career, with a score of 11-under par. He was one of five Longhorns to post a top-10 individual finish at the University of Texas Golf Club.
• Pierceson Coody has been on a tear since winning the Hannon Collegiate. Over his last 12 rounds, he is 32-under par and has posted under-par scores in 11 of those rounds. He has finished first (Hannon Collegiate), tied for second (N.I.T.), tied for third (Calusa Cup) and second (The Aggie Invitational) in his last four outings.
• Coody ascended to No. 1 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking earlier this month and was also named a Ben Hogan Award semifinalist.
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