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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 – Feb. 9, 2024<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’s Keefer Named to Ben Hogan Award Watch List<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">The two-time All-American enters the spring semester as the No. 34 Individual in the country<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For more information, contact
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Matt Roberts, 254-227-2280,
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><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">WACO, Texas – </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Baylor's Johnny Keefer
was one of 40 players named to the Ben Hogan Award Watch List in a </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">joint announcement Friday by the Hogan Trophy Award Foundation, the Friends
of Golf (FOG) and the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA).</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">The two-time All-American is Baylor’s first representative on the watch list since Cooper Dossey in 2020. Keefer
is one of just four players from the State of Texas and three from the Big 12 Conference, joining
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Gustav Frimodt of TCU</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
</span><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">and Christiaan Maas of Texas.</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white;font-weight:normal"><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">The two-time reigning Big 12 Men's Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year finished the fall on fire with three top-10 finishes in three stroke-play
events, including his last time out at the Kapolei Invitational, where he tied for eighth with three rounds in the 60s. He carded a 12-under 204, which ranks as one of the top-20 tournament scores in program history. In the process, he also overtook Jimmy
Walker’s career stroke-average mark, moving .04 strokes ahead of the PGA major champion and former Bear with a semester to play.<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">Keefer is on pace to lead the team in stroke average for a third-straight season and begins the spring ranked as the No. 34 player in
the Scoreboard individual rankings.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">The Bears have had two Hogan Award semi-finalists in program history. The</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">
award, presented by PNC Bank, annually honors the top men's NCAA Division I, II or III, NAIA or NJCAA college golfer based on all collegiate, amateur, and professional events over the previous 12 months.</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Recipients of the Ben Hogan Award presented by PNC Bank have combined to accumulate 85 worldwide victories,
including 64 PGA TOUR wins, and have amassed more than $395 million in prize money on the PGA TOUR. Additionally, the group has appeared in 17 Ryder Cups and a dozen Presidents Cups.</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Past Big 12 recipients include Oklahoma State’s Rickie Fowler (2008), Viktor Hovland (2019), Hunter Mahan (2003),
and Peter Uihlein (2011), Texas’ Doug Ghim (2018), and Texas Tech’s Ludvig Aberg (2022, 2023).</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white;font-weight:normal"><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">Keefer and the Bears will return to action Feb. 19-21 at the Prestige in Palm Springs, Calif. For more information on Baylor Men’s Golf,
follow @BaylorMGolf on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">—BaylorBears.com—</span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Matt Roberts | Associate Director of Athletic Communications (MBB/MGOLF/ WGOLF) <br>
Department of Athletics | Baylor University<br>
C: 254-227-2280</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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