Baylor Men’s Golf Returns to Action in Mexico

WACO, Texas – Baylor men’s golf returns to action at the Querencia Cabo Collegiate, which runs Sunday through Tuesday on the par-71, 6,928-yard course at Los Cabos Querencia Country Club in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico.

The Bears are back at Querencia for a sixth consecutive season. BU has recorded top-three finishes in three of its five previous appearances. The Bears took second place in 2017, third place in both 2014 and 2016, tied for seventh place in 2015 and finished in 10th place last season.

Baylor, which is No. 36 in the latest Golfstat rankings, is part of a 13-team field that features 11 top-50 ranked teams, including six teams ranked inside the nation’s top 20. BU takes on No. 1 Oklahoma State, No. 3 Vanderbilt, No. 9 Arizona State, No. 12 LSU, No. 14 Alabama, No. 19 Texas A&M, No. 27 Florida State, No. 32 Arkansas, No. 48 Ole Miss, No. 50 Arizona, Houston and Rice.

BU is coming off a tie for second place in the 14-team All-American Intercollegiate, which was the Bears’ first event of the spring season. BU won two tournament titles in four events during the fall season and now has top-two finishes in three of five tournaments during the 2018-19 season.

Baylor’s lineup is led by junior Cooper Dossey, who is playing in the No. 1 spot for the first time in his three-year BU career. Dossey’s only previous appearance in one of the top-2 spots in the lineup came when he played No. 2 as a freshman at the 2017 Querencia Cabo Collegiate.

Senior Garrett May is in the No. 2 spot, followed by junior Colin Kober at No. 3, sophomore Ryan Grider at No. 4 and senior Braden Bailey rounding out the lineup at No. 5. Sophomore Mark Reppe will compete as an individual.

May is appearing in a top-4 spot in the lineup for a 16th consecutive tournament, while Bailey is in the lineup for a 44thstraight event covering his entire collegiate career. Dossey is in a top-4 spot for the 11th consecutive tournament since returning from an injury last spring.

Reppe recorded his career-best finish at the All-American Intercollegiate with a tie for fourth place, while Grider tied for 11thplace competing as an individual. May, Bailey and Dossey all tied for 22nd place, and Kober tied for 31st place.

May has posted Baylor’s best individual finish in each of its last two trips to the Querencia Cabo Collegiate. He shot 8-under 205 to tie for second place and help the Bears finish second as a team in 2017, and he followed with a tie for 10th place at even-par 213 in last year’s event. Bailey took seventh place with a score of 4-under 209 as a freshman in 2016, leading the Bears to a third-place finish.

All three rounds are scheduled for shotgun starts. Sunday’s first round and Monday’s second round begin at 10 a.m. CT, while Tuesday’s final round starts at 9 a.m. CT.