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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Sept. 11, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<h2 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-style:normal">Baylor MGOLF Notches a Third-Place Finish at Season-Opening Valero Texas Collegiate<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<h2 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-style:normal">BU’s Keefer comes up just short of the individual title in a playoff<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">For more information, contact
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Matt Roberts, 254-227-2280, </span><a href="mailto:WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">SAN ANTONIO – </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Baylor men’s golf finished
third against a talented field at the inaugural Valero Texas Collegiate on Monday at TPC San Antonio.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Florida Gulf Coast’s Joe Sullivan outlasted BU’s Johnny Keefer and TCU’s Gustav Frimodt on the second playoff hole to claim the individual
title and a spot in next year’s Valero Texas Open on the PGA Tour. Keefer’s tie for second is his best finish since a second place at the 2023 Border Olympics.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">With a 4-under 860, the Bears finished just four shots behind TCU and nine shots behind the champion, No. 3 Vanderbilt. BU finished three
shots ahead of No. 13 Virginia and five shots in front of No. 10 Oklahoma, which finished fourth and fifth, respectively.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">THE RUNDOWN<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">The overnight leader with TCU’s Frimodt, Keefer started with a couple of bogeys on the front nine at Nos. 3 and 7 before his first birdie
at No. 8. He made the turn at 2-over with a bogey at No. 9, but went right to work, blistering the back nine for a third day in a row with a birdie at No. 11. He added another at No. 13, before dropping a shot at No. 15 and falling a shot out of the lead.
The San Antonio native made a clutch birdie putt at No. 17, which earned him a spot in a playoff after a par at 18.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Luke Dossey captured his fourth-career top-10 finish with a tie for 10<sup>th</sup> on Monday. The senior played steady early in the
final round and drained a long birdie putt at the par-3 seventh to get into red figures. Dossey gave a pair of shots back at Nos. 9 and 10 but bounced back with a birdie at No. 12 to get back to even for the round and finished his week at 2-under.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Jonas Appel had a strong showing on Monday, carding a 1-under 71 en route to a tie for 38<sup>th</sup>. The sophomore got hot with the
putter early, rolling in birdies at Nos. 2 and 3, before adding another at No. 8 to make the turn with a bogey-free 33. After a tight approach at the 11<sup>th</sup>, he converted the birdie putt to get to 4-under on the day, but dropped shots at Nos. 13,
14 and 18 to fall back to 1-under. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Zach Heffernan continued his strong play with an even-par 72 to claim a tie for 55<sup>th</sup>. The Boerne, Texas, native made an early
birdie at No. 2 but closed the front nine with bogeys at Nos. 5, 7 and 9 around a birdie at No. 6. The junior completed his inward nine with eight pars and a birdie at 18 to close out a strong finish to the week that saw him climb 16 spots over the final two
rounds.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Trey Bosco closed out his run in San Antonio with a 5-over 77 to also finish tied for 55<sup>th</sup>. After an early birdie at No. 3,
Bosco made a double bogey at No. 5 but got right back to even with a birdie at No. 6. A triple at the ninth and a bogey at the 10<sup>th</sup> dropped him to 4-over, before his third birdie of the day at No. 14. The senior closed out the round with a pair
of bogeys at Nos. 16 and 18.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Freshman Davis Ovard closed out his collegiate debut in a tie for 51<sup>st</sup> on the heels of a 6-over 78 on Monday. The freshman
fell to 4-over through four holes before his first birdie of the day at No. 6. A bogey at No. 8 put him at 4-over at the turn, then a bogeys at Nos. 12 and 14 were the lone blemishes on his inward half.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">HIGHLIGHTS<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white;font-weight:normal">Baylor finished 3-1 against Top 25 teams in the field with head-to-head wins over No. 10 Oklahoma, No. 13 Virginia and No. 20 Georgia.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white;font-weight:normal">With his ninth career top-5 finish, Johnny Keefer moves into a tie with Braden Bailey for the seventh-most in program history.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white;font-weight:normal">With 15 career top-10s, Keefer ties Matthew Perrine for the eighth-most in program history.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white;font-weight:normal">Keefer, a San Antonio native, has now played five of his six career collegiate rounds at par or better at TPC San Antonio.
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white;font-weight:normal">The senior played the back nine at 10-under for the week, and led the field with 16 birdies.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white;font-weight:normal">Luke Dossey carded his fifth career top-10 finish, and his first since the Border Olympics last February.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white;font-weight:normal">Monday marked the second time in his career that Dossey carded three straight rounds at par or better in one event.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white;font-weight:normal">Dossey tied for the third-best par-3 scoring average (2.83).<o:p></o:p></span></strong></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white;font-weight:normal">The senior’s 39 pars tied for the second-most in the field this week.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">QUOTABLE<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Head coach Mike McGraw</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"> — “This was a really solid start for our guys this week. It was good
being in the thick of things in a tough field. We can definitely build on this performance.”<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">WHAT'S NEXT</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">The Bears will compete at the Fighting Illini Invitational, beginning Friday at Olympia Fields Country Club in Olympia Fields, Ill.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">For more information on Baylor Men’s Golf, follow @BaylorMGolf on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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Department of Athletics | Baylor University<br>
C: 254-227-2280</span><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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