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No. 4 Men’s Golf preview: NCAA Championship
05.25.2021 | Men's Golf
The Longhorns enter the NCAA Championship fresh off a Noblesville Regional triumph two weeks ago.
AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas men's golf program, slotted at No. 4 nationally in the latest Golfweek Men's Team Collegiate Rankings, competes in the NCAA Championship at the Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz. this week. The 2021 NCAA Championship begins on May 28, with four days of stroke-play on top before the top-eight teams advance to the match play portion of the tournament on June 1-2.
2021 NCAA Men's Golf Championship
May 28-June 2, 2021
Where: Scottsdale, Ariz. (Grayhawk Golf Club)
Format: 72 holes of stroke play (18 holes each day, Friday-Monday), top-8 advance to match play
Par/Yardage: 70/7,289
Field: Florida State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Clemson, Texas, North Carolina, Wake Forest, Illinois, Pepperdine, Arizona State, Vanderbilt, Georgia, NC State, Tennessee, Liberty, SMU, San Francisco, Florida, Texas Tech, Arkansas, San Diego State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Sam Houston, Oregon state, UAB, TCU, East Tennessee State, Little Rock, San Diego, South Carolina, Michigan State, Jacksonville, Purdue, Colorado State, Utah
Lineup (5 play, 1 alternate): Pierceson Coody, Cole Hammer, Travis Vick, Parker Coody, Mason Nome, Hunter Ostrom
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Texas at the NCAA Championship
• The Longhorns are slated to compete in the NCAA Championship for the 14th-straight season, a streak that dates back to 2008.
• Texas enters this year's field with three national titles on its resume, previously hoisting the trophy in 1971, 1972 and 2012.
• Four players in school history have won medalist honors at the NCAA Championship. That group consists of Ed White (1935), three-time winner Ben Crenshaw (1971-73), Tom Kite (1972) and Justin Leonard (1994). Crenshaw and Kite shared medalist honors at the 1972 tournament.
• This season is Texas' 66th all-time appearance in the NCAA Championship.
• Texas has made six appearances in the match play portion of the NCAA Championship since its introduction in 2009, tied with Illinois for the second-most appearances of any program in the country during that stretch. The Longhorns trail only Oklahoma State's seven appearances in the match play-era.
• UT has gone 7-5 as a team in NCAA Championship match play since 2009, including three appearances in the Championship match. The Horns are 1-2 overall in the NCAA Final, winning the title in 2012, while finishing runner-up in 2016 and 2019.
Team 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.
• Cole Hammer became the 40th individual medalist at a conference championship in program history when he won the crown with a 4-under 276 at the Big 12 Championship last month.
• The Longhorns won the NCAA Noblesville Regional by five shots two weeks ago to earn their spot in this weekend's field. It was the ninth NCAA Regional title in Longhorn history, the second-most by any program in the country (15 – Oklahoma State).
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