Top-Ranked Men's Golf to Close Fall at East Lake Cup

7th Annual East Lake Cup

Oct. 25-27 / 18 Holes & 2 matches / Atlanta, Ga. / East Lake Golf Club / Live Scoring / Golf Channel

ATLANTA — The top-ranked Oklahoma men's golf team will collide with the nation's top teams in Atlanta this week at the seventh-annual East Lake Cup, held at the historic East Lake Golf Club. The Cup features 18 holes of stroke play on day one, followed by match play to determine a champion Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Sooners finished as the runner-up last season at East Lake, falling to eventual national champion Pepperdine in the final match. After winning the stroke-play portion of the event, the Sooners entered match play as the No. 1 seed and then completed a comeback to defeat Texas in the semifinal before their final match with the Waves.

Oklahoma entered the season ranked seventh, but has ascended into the nation's top spot in all three major polls (Golfstat, Golfweek, GCAA), making them the only team in the last two seasons to occupy the No. 1 spot in all three polls at once, a feat which they've done twice. Led by the senior duo of Logan McAllister and Chris Gotterup, the Sooners have finished no worse than second in every stroke-play event this season and won the Maridoe Collegiate. Those two are joined by a trio of young and productive golfers in redshirt freshmen Jaxon Dowell and Stephen Campbell Jr., as well as true freshman Drew Goodman. The OU lineup has combined for 26 top-10 finishes in just 66 events played with Gotterup and McAllister claiming 60 of the 66 starts.

THE FIELD BY GOLFSTAT/GOLFWEEK RANKING

No. 1/1 Oklahoma
No. 2/2 Arizona State
No. 5/4 Oklahoma State
No. 17/9 Pepperdine

OU LINEUP

Logan McAllister, SR, Oklahoma City, Okla. - Second appearance at East Lake, finishing T11 (E) in 2020 ... 2021 Golfweek and GCAA PING Third Team All-American ... Owns school record for career-scoring average at 71.30 (-0.03) over 69 rounds played ... Three career victories are tied for the third most in program history, trailing only Anthony Kim and Grant Hirschman ... 13 top-20 finishes in 21 tournaments played ... 13-4-1 all-time in match play as a Sooner.

RANK: Golfstat - 27 | Golfweek/Sagarin - 12 | WAGR - 14 | PGA Tour U - 3

Chris Gotterup, R-SR, Little Silver, N.J. - Transferred to OU from Rutgers for final college season ... 2020 Big Ten Player of the Year and PING Third Team All-American ... -1.22 mark vs. par this year is lowest for the Sooners ... 33 top-20 career finishes alongside 16 top 10s ... Back-to-back third-place finishes at Maridoe and Colonial ... Powered OU to bronze at the BIg 12 Match Play Championship with a +15 hole differential across five matches.

RANK: Golfstat - 15 | Golfweek/Sagarin - 9 | WAGR - 81 | PGA Tour U - 27

Jaxon Dowell, R-Fr., Edmond, Okla. - Made collegiate debut at Colonial, finishing seventh after signing for a 209 (-1) ... No. 8 golfer in the country in 2020 recruiting class ... Grabbed fourth at the Oklahoma Stroke Play Championship (June 2021) ... Third place at the Silver State Amateur (June 2021) ... Finished third at the 2020 Oklahoma State Amateur ... Won the 2019 Oklahoma Junior Boys Championship ... 3-1-1 record at Big 12 Match Play.

RANK: Golfstat - 32 | Golfweek/Sagarin - 13 | WAGR - 472

Stephen Campbell Jr., R-Fr., Richmond, Texas - Fourth appearance for the Sooners ... Finished eighth at the 2020 Texas State Amateur ... Earned a top-10 finish at the 2020 Dustin Johnson Junior World Championship ... Represented Team USA at the 2019 Junior President's Cup and took part in the 2019 Wyndham Cup ... Set the TAPPS scoring record (131) to win the 2019 TAPPS 5A state championship ... Three-time First-Team All-District and All-Regional selection.

RANK: Golfstat - 225 | Golfweek/Sagarin - 102 | WAGR - 674

Drew Goodman, FR, Norman, Okla. - Fifth appearance for the Sooners ... Two-time AJGA All-American ... Took home medalist honors at 2018 Under Armour Jordan Spieth Championship and 2019 Bass Pro/Payne Stewart Championship ... Ranked 16th in the 2021 class by Golfweek and was the No. 1 prospect in the state of Oklahoma ... Three-time champion of the OJGT/TJGT Red River Challenge.

RANK: Golfstat - 135 | Golfweek/Sagarin - 68 | WAGR - 539

HISTORY

This is Oklahoma's third showing at the East Lake Cup, appearing in 2017 and 2020. The Sooners finished as the runner-up in 2020, but won the stroke-play portion clinching the competition's No. 1 seed for the week. Patrick Welch won the individual title last year in Atlanta, becoming the first Sooner to win the event.

FORMAT

All four teams will play 18 holes of stroke play on Monday, crowning an individual champion and setting the seeds for match play. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the teams will play through a bracket of match play.

COVERAGE

Live scoring will be available on Golfstat.com and live coverage will be broadcast on the Golf Channel from 2-5 p.m. daily.