Texas prevails at Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters
Beau Hossler
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — If you're the Texas men's
golf team, you're feeling pretty
good about yourselves. In an elite field featuring
15 top-50 teams in the nation,
including five teams inside the top-10, the
Longhorns broke away from the pack
in the third round to roll to a 10-shot win at the
Southern Highlands Collegiate
Masters.
Led by sophomore Beau Hossler, Texas shot 10-
under on day three after trailing
Big-12 rival Oklahoma State by two after
Tuesday's second round. Hossler, who
is coming off his first collegiate win at the
John Hayt
Collegiate, shot 68 in the final two
rounds to tie for second place with John Rahm of
Arizona State.
Texas also had top-10 individual finishes from
Kramer Hickok and Scottie
Scheffler, with Hickok taking fourth and
Scheffler tying for seventh.
Second-round leaders Oklahoma State struggled
on Wednesday, shooting nine-
over as a team. The rough closing round
dropped them back into a tie for third
with ASU, whose streak of consecutive wins
ended at three straight.
Individually, Alabama sophomore Robby
Shelton broke away from the
pack in the final round with a tournament low
round of 65, which was also shot
by three other players. At fifteen-under 201,
Shelton bested Rahm and Hossler by
six.
Another Big 12 team, Oklahoma, took solo
second place at 16-under 848. The
Sooners were led by freshman Grant Hirschman
and senior Charlie Saxon. Saxon
shared the opening-round lead with UNLV's
Redford Bobbitt at 65.
The No. 1 ranked team in the nation, Illinois,
settled for a sixth place finish, 20
shots behind Texas. Junior Charlie Danielson
took sixth place to represent the
Fighting Illini in the top-10 thanks to a final-
round 68 after back-to-back 71s to
open the event.
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