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Sooners Head to Pebble Beach for Season Opener
September 01, 2016 | Men's Golf
NORMAN – The Oklahoma men's golf team will begin its 2016-17 competition this weekend at the sixth annual Carmel Cup. The three-day, 54-hole tournament will take place Sept. 2-4 (Friday-Sunday) at the iconic par-72, 6,828-yard Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, Calif.
The competitive event features eight squads, five of which are ranked in the top 20 of the Bushnell Golfweek Preseason Coaches Poll. The Sooners are starting the year at No. 10, the best preseason ranking under eighth-year OU head coach Ryan Hybl.
“We're ready to go,” Hybl said of the season opening-tournament. “I like our group that we're taking. We've got some firepower in our squad, and we just need to go out there and get off to a good start, and hopefully things will work to give ourselves a chance.”
Each team will compete with six golfers, and the low five scores will count toward the team total each round. OU's lineup for the Carmel Cup will showcase senior Max McGreevy, junior Grant Hirschman, sophomores Brad Dalke and Blaine Hale, redshirt freshman Quade Cummins and true freshman Riley Casey.
While Cummins and Casey are making their OU debuts, McGreevy, Hirschman, Dalke and Hale were all a part of the squad that qualified for match play at the 2016 NCAA Championships, marking the first time in program history that a team advanced to that stage of competition. Hybl said that the combination of new and returning competitors creates a unique approach to the new season.
“For the guys that were at last year's NCAAs, I think they're trying to carry on that momentum and build on it and build on it and create more confidence,” he said. “For the new guys, I think it's important for them to get off to good starts and understand what it means to go play high-level college golf.”
The Sooners' tee times are scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. CT Friday, and they will be paired with Georgia, Texas Tech and Vanderbilt.
THE FIELD (BUSHNELL GOLFWEEK COACHES POLL RANKINGS IN PARENTHESES)
Oklahoma State (4)
Vanderbilt (5)
Georgia (9)
Oklahoma (10)
Arkansas (20)
Ohio State
TCU
Texas Tech
OU LINEUP
1. Max McGreevy, Senior: Named to the 2016 Division I PING All-America Third Team for his junior campaign … Claimed his first career win at the 2015 Gopher Invitational, setting a career-low 54-hole score, 206 (-7) … Set a career-low round, 66, in the final round of the Gopher Invitational and matched it three more times throughout the season, including the final round of NCAA Championships stroke play … Earned four top-five finishes in the 2015-16 season, the most in one season by any Sooner since 2004-05.
2. Brad Dalke, Sophomore: Runner-up at the 2016 U.S. Amateur … Named to the 2016 All-Central Region team … Led the Sooners at the 2015 Ka'anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational with a second-place finish, his first career top-five placing, after carding a 206 (-7), his low 54-hole score … Recorded five total top-20 showings in his freshman season.
3. Grant Hirschman, Junior: Shot a 63 (-9) in the third round of the 2016 Big 12 Championship, setting a record for both the championship and the Whispering Pines Golf Club and matching the OU single-round record … Recorded six top-20 finishes, including four in the top-10, during the 2015-16 season … Named to the 2016 All-Central Region team.
4. Blaine Hale, Sophomore: Opened his OU career with a tie for sixth place at the 2016 UTSA/Oak Hills Invitational, his best finish of his freshman season … Competed in all eight spring events of the 2015-16 season, including the NCAA Championships … Named to both the 2016 Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team and the 2016 Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll.
5. Quade Cummins, Redshirt Freshman: Making his OU debut after redshirting as a true freshman … Won the 2016 Oklahoma Amateur Championship … Two-time Oklahoma Class 4A State Golf Champion at Weatherford High School (2013, 2015).
6. Riley Casey, Freshman: Competing in his first collegiate event as a true freshman … Named a 2014 Rolex Junior All-American … Two-time member of the Texas 51 All-State Team and a four-year letterman at Abilene Cooper High School.
THE COURSE
The 6,828-yard, par-72 Pebble Beach Golf Links serves as the course for the Carmel Cup. GolfDigest called Pebble Beach “America's No. 1 Public Golf Course.” Located on the shores of California's Monterrey Peninsula, Pebble Beach hosts a yearly PGA Tour event and the annual AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The course has also hosted four U.S. Amateurs and five U.S. Opens, most recently in 2010. The U.S. Open is scheduled at Pebble Beach in 2019.
FORMAT
Fifty-four holes will be played over three days. The Sooners' tee times begin at 10 a.m. CT on Friday from hole No. 1, and the team will be paired with Georgia, Texas Tech and Vanderbilt.
WEATHER FORECAST
Friday: Mostly sunny with a high of 64 degrees and wind out of the west, northwest at 10-20 mph. Ten percent chance of rain.
Saturday: Mostly sunny with a high of 62 degrees and wind out of the west at 10-15 mph. Ten percent chance of rain.
Sunday: Partly cloudy with a high of 62 degrees and wind out of the west, northwest at 10-15 mph. Ten percent chance of rain.
OU'S CARMEL CUP HISTORY
This appearance marks the Sooners' third consecutive season beginning at the Carmel Cup. Last year, OU tied for fourth place with a three-round 1088 (+8).
Live scoring will be available on GolfStat.com.
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