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Baylor Men’s Golf Bound for NCAA Championship

May 23, 2019
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WACO, Texas – Baylor men’s golf is headed to the 2019 NCAA Men’s Golf Championship, which runs Friday through Wednesday at Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville, Ark. The Bears will extend their school record with a fourth consecutive NCAA Championship appearance and will compete at the Championship for the ninth time in program history.

A 30-team field will compete for the national title on the par-72, 7,550-yard course at Blessings. All 30 teams are scheduled for three rounds of stroke play Friday through Sunday. The top 15 teams and top nine individuals not on those teams continue to Monday’s fourth round of stroke play, and the top eight teams after 72 holes move on to match play to determine the national champion. The individual national champion will be crowned after Monday’s fourth round of stroke play.

Quarterfinals and semifinals matches are scheduled for Tuesday, and the national title match will be played Wednesday. Golf Channel will provide live coverage of the tournament beginning with Monday’s final round of stroke play and culminating with Wednesday’s national title match.

Baylor’s lineup is led by senior Garrett May in the No. 1 spot. He’s followed by junior Cooper Dossey at No. 2, junior Colin Kober at No. 3, senior Braden Bailey at No. 4 and sophomore Ryan Grider at No. 5. Sophomore Mark Reppe is the Bears’ designated alternate, and he can be subbed into the lineup in between any round throughout the Championship.

Bailey will become the first player in program history to compete at four NCAA Championships. May and Dossey will appear in their third consecutive Championships, while Grider is appearing in the Bears’ Championship lineup for a second consecutive season. Kober is making his NCAA Championship lineup debut after traveling to the last two NCAA Championships as the designated alternate, though he was not subbed into the lineup for either event.

Prior to the Championship, Kober was named winner of the NCAA Elite 90 Award for the second consecutive season. The Elite 90 is presented to the student‐athlete with the highest cumulative grade point average participating at the finals site for each of the NCAA’s championships. Kober, who holds a 4.0 cumulative grade point average while majoring in accounting, was presented with the award during the Championship banquet on Thursday morning.

Baylor is paired with Liberty and Illinois for Friday’s first round, and those teams will tee off from No. 10 starting at 7:45 a.m. CT. Grider is up first for the Bears, followed by Bailey at 7:56 a.m., Kober at 8:07 a.m., Dossey at 8:18 a.m. and May at 8:29 a.m. The Bears will again play with Illinois and Liberty in Saturday’s second round, though they’ll start the second round from the first tee beginning at 1:05 p.m., with individual lineup order set by first-round results.

NCAA Championship Field (Regional Finish)
No. 1 Oklahoma State (1st in Louisville)

No. 2 Arizona State (t-2nd in Stanford)

No. 3 Wake Forest (3rd in Myrtle Beach)

No. 4 Vanderbilt (3rd in Athens)

No. 5 Oklahoma (3rd in Pullman)

No. 6 Texas (1st in Austin)

No. 7 USC (5th in Austin)

No. 8 Georgia Tech (4th in Pullman)

No. 9 Duke (2nd in Athens)

No. 10 California (4th in Myrtle Beach)

No. 11 Auburn (2nd in Louisville)

No. 12 Stanford (1st in Stanford)

No. 13 North Florida (5th in Louisville)

No. 14 LSU (5th in Stanford)

No. 16 Georgia (1st in Athens)

No. 17 South Carolina (t-5th in Pullman)

No. 18 Pepperdine (4th in Austin)

No. 19 Clemson (3rd in Austin)

No. 20 Texas A&M (1st in Pullman)

No. 21 Louisville (4th in Louisville)

No. 22 Liberty (5th in Athens)

No. 23 Illinois (1st in Myrtle Beach)

No. 25 Baylor (3rd in Louisville)

No. 26 North Carolina (t-2nd in Stanford)

No. 30 TCU (2nd in Austin)

No. 32 BYU (2nd in Pullman)

No. 34 UNLV (5th in Myrtle Beach)

No. 46 Ohio State (2nd in Myrtle Beach)

No. 58 Georgia Southern (4th in Stanford)

No. 60 SMU (4th in Athens)

BAYLOR NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP APPEARANCES

1960 – t-9th

1966 – 24th

1967 – t-31st

2002 – 19th

2010 – t-25th

2016 – 27th

2017 – t-5th

2018 – 30th

2019 –

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