Baylor Men’s Golf Set to Compete in Aggie Invitational

[Kaye, David]

BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – April 4, 2019

Baylor Men’s Golf Set to Compete in Aggie Invitational
Bears will play in tournament at Traditions for fourth consecutive season
For more information contact: David Kaye, 254-709-5147, David_Kaye at baylor.edu<mailto:David_Kaye at baylor.edu>


WACO, Texas – Baylor men’s golf is set to compete in the 2019 Aggie Invitational, which runs Saturday and Sunday on the par-72, 7,146-yard course at Traditions Golf Club in Bryan, Texas.



The 13-team field is scheduled for two rounds on Saturday and a final round on Sunday. Saturday’s first round starts with tee times from Nos. 1 and 10 at 7:30 a.m. CT, and teams will continue in the same pairings for a second round. Sunday’s final round also starts at 7:30 a.m.


No. 24 Baylor is one of six top-30 ranked teams in the field. The Bears take on No. 1 Oklahoma State, No. 2 Arizona State, No. 10 Texas Tech, No. 12 LSU, No. 27 Texas A&M, Kent State, Lamar, Michigan, New Mexico, New Mexico State, North Texas and Washington.



Baylor is appearing at the Aggie Invitational for a fourth consecutive season. The Bears placed fifth in 2016, second in 2017 and seventh in 2018. Three members of the Baylor lineup have previously recorded top-five individual finishes at the Aggie Invitational. Cooper Dossey and Garrett May tied for second place individually in 2017, and Braden Bailey tied for fourth place as a freshman in 2016.



Bailey, who is one of five Byron Nelson Award finalists, returns to the No. 1 spot in the BU lineup for the fourth time in eight tournaments this season, extending his streak to 46 consecutive tournaments in the BU lineup over his entire four-year career.



Colin Kober is in the No. 2 spot, marking a fourth straight tournament in one of the top three spots and an eighth consecutive event participating as part of the Baylor lineup. Dossey is at No. 3, extending his streak to 13 consecutive lineup appearances dating back to his return from a wrist injury at last year’s Aggie Invitational.



Garrett May is in the lineup for an 18th consecutive time and playing at No. 4, and Ryan Grider rounds out the lineup at No. 5 making his seventh lineup appearance out of eight team tournaments this season. Mark Reppe will compete as an individual for the third consecutive tournament, extending his streak to seven consecutive events played.



All five members of the Baylor lineup are among the top-15 career stroke averages in program history. Dossey ranks second on Baylor’s all-time list with a 71.87 mark, while Bailey is fifth at 71.95, May is eighth at 72.29, Kober is 12th at 73.18 and Grider is 15th at 73.34.



Bailey is tied for fifth in program history with 18 career top-10 finishes, while May is 10th with 13 top-10 finishes and Dossey is tied for 12th with nine top-10s. Bailey can also tie Andreas Gjesteby for seventh on Baylor’s career rounds played list with 135 if all three rounds are played at the Aggie Invitational.



Following the Aggie Invite, Baylor will play its final regular-season tournament at the ASU Thunderbird Invitational, which runs April 12-13 at Karsten Golf Club in Tempe, Ariz. The Bears then head to the Big 12 Championship at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., which is scheduled for April 26-28.



Baylor has finished top-three in four of seven tournaments this season, including tournament titles at the Trinity Forest Invitational and the inaugural Big 12 Match Play Championship, BU also tied for second at the All-American Intercollegiate and took third place at the Querencia Cabo Collegiate.



A Baylor player has finished top-five individually in all three spring tournaments. Reppe tied for fourth place at the All-American, Kober taking fifth place at Querencia and Bailey tied for fifth place at the Valspar. All told, BU players have combined to play 44 of 119 rounds at par or better, post seven top-10 individual finishes and record a 73.03 scoring average with a 71.41 average counting score.



Live scoring for the Aggie Invitational is available at www.golfstat.com<http://www.golfstat.com>. Follow @BaylorMGolf on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook for updates throughout the season.



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David Kaye | Assistant AD for Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
C: 254-709-5147

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