Baylor MGOLF Finishes Eighth at the All-American Intercollegiate

Tue Mar 19 16:49:06 CDT 2024

BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS- March 19, 2024

Baylor MGOLF Finishes Eighth at the All-American Intercollegiate
BU’s Davis Ovard leads BU with a top-10 finish
For more information contact: Matt Roberts, 254-227-2280, WM_Roberts at Baylor.edu<mailto:WM_Roberts at Baylor.edu>

HUMBLE, Texas– Baylor men’s golf closed with a 3-over 291 to secure an eighth-place finish at the All-American Intercollegiate on Tuesday at The Golf Club of Houston.

Davis Ovard served as the standard bearer for Baylor for a second-straight round with a 2-under 70 in the final round. Finishing in a tie for eighth, the freshman reached new heights, carding his first top-10 finish as a member of the scoring lineup. Ovard finished five shots behind Sam Houston’s Bret Gray and UNLV’s Yuki Moriyama, who outlasted Gray in a playoff for medalist honors.

Texas Tech tied for the second-best round of the day to jump the Bearkats and claim the team title with a 7-over 871, 13 shots ahead of the eighth-place Bears.

Zach Heffernan headlined the All-American Individual with a second-place finish with three-straight even-par 72s, three shots back of Texas Tech’s Charlie Delong, who claimed the title. Luke Morgan tied for 12th with a 9-over 225, just ahead of Luke Dossey’s 10-over 226, which was good enough for a tie for 15th. Sam Dossey’s 12-over 228 saw him finish in 18th.

THE RUNDOWN
Ovard played his final seven holes at 5-under on Monday and kept that momentum rolling on Tuesday, finishing tied for eighth on the heels of another 2-under 70. The freshman got off to a patient start to his round with 12-straight pars, before eventually breaking into red figures with a birdie at No. 2 and another at No. 4.

Johnny Keefer finished tied for 21st with a 4-over 220 for the week. Opening with three-straight pars, Keefer made a double bogey at No. 11 to drop to 2-over. He fought back to even with a pair of birdies at Nos. 13 and 15, before dropping two more shots at Nos. 17 and 18. The senior played his final seven holes at 1-under to finish the day with a 1-over 73.

Trey Bosco shot a 1-over 73 on Tuesday to finish the event tied for 40th. Starting at No. 10, the senior made an early birdie at No. 13, but gave it back with a bogey at No. 17 to make the turn at even. After a pair of pars to start his second nine, Bosco made a bogey at No. 3 and a birdie at No. 4 to remain at even par until a final bogey at No. 7 dropped him to 1-over on the day.

Tyler Isenhart also carded a tie for 40th on the heels of a 3-over 75 on Tuesday. The senior played his first five holes at 2-under par after birdies at Nos. 12 and 13. He gave back a couple of shots with back-to-back bogeys at Nos. 14 and 15 to fall back to even par. Isenhart briefly dipped back into red figures with a birdie at No. 2, but closed with bogeys at Nos. 4 and 7 around a double bogey at No. 5.

Jonas Appel wrapped up his event with a 4-over 76 in the final round to finish tied for 75th. He got off to a good start with an early birdie at No. 11, but closed his opening nine with bogeys at Nos. 13 and 18. A 3-over stretch at Nos. 3 and 4 dropped him down to 4-over before a birdie at No. 6 got a stroke back for him. One final bogey came for Appel at No. 8 to close out his week with a 14-over 230.

HIGHLIGHTS

  *   Ovard’s tie for eighth equaled his career-best finish at Baylor and was his first top-10 finish as a member of Baylor’s scoring lineup.
  *   Ovard has lowered his stroke average from 72.56 to 72.19 in his four events this spring
  *   Heffernan recorded his first career top-5 finish at the All-American Individual.
  *   Keefer finished in a tie for 23rd, meaning he has finished in the top-25 in all six stroke play events this season.
  *   With three more rounds this week, Keefer moved into a tie with Mikkel Bjerch-Andresen for 14th place on the career rounds played list at BU.
  *   Baylor finished with the second-best par-4 scoring average (4.15).

QUOTABLE
Head Coach Mike McGraw — “We got off to a really rough start in round one but played solid in the last two rounds. I was happy for Davis Ovard to get his first top-10 finish as a member of our lineup. Zach Heffernan had his best-career finish over in the individual event, so there were some bright spots to take away from this week.”

WHAT’S NEXT
The Bears will tee it up in the Aggie Invitational, April 6-7, at Traditions Golf club in Bryan, Texas. For more information on Baylor Men’s Golf, follow @BaylorMGolf on X, Instagram and Facebook.

—BaylorBears.com—

Matt Roberts | Associate Director of Athletic Communications (MBB/MGOLF/ WGOLF)
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
C: 254-227-2280
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