Men's Golf Set For Tough Field at Ben Hogan Collegiate

Ben Hogan Collegiate

Oct. 2-3 / 54 Holes / Fort Worth, Texas / Shady Oaks CC

FORT WORTH — The Oklahoma men's golf team is set to take on the toughest field in college golf this week when it tees off Monday at the Ben Hogan Collegiate. The 54-hole event will be played over two days at Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas.

The 15-team field features 14 ranked teams, including No. 10 Oklahoma, in the latest GCAA poll. Twelve teams inside the top 20, including six in the top 10, will tee off in Fort Worth. Five of the eight teams that made NCAA match play last season will compete in the event.

The Sooners lineup is headlined by Luke Kluver, who has opened his season with back-to-back top-10 finishes. Drew Goodman grabs the second bag for head coach Ryan Hybl, followed by Stephen Campbell Jr. and All-American Ben Lorenz. Jaxon Dowell will make his 2023 lineup debut after finishing T28 at last month's Husky Invitational as an unattached golfer.

Admission to the tournament is free.

THE FIELD WITH GCAA RANKING

(2) Arizona State
(5) Florida State
(20) Georgia
(4) Georgia Tech
(1) North Carolina
(10) Oklahoma
(16) Oklahoma State
(22) Oregon
(15) Pepperdine
(RV) TCU
(11) Texas
(T17) Texas A&M
(T17) Texas Tech
(3) Vanderbilt
(25) Wake Forest

THE COURSE

Typically held at Colonial Country Club, the Hogan Invitational moves to Shady Oaks due to construction at Colonial. The par-70, 6,885-yard Shady Oaks Country Club was designed by Robert Trent Jones and is widely known as Ben Hogan's home club. The design of the course was state of the art and emblematic of the new style of design: heavily engineered; long, with narrow fairways through treelined corridors that placed a premium on driving accuracy; and large, sectioned greens. That mode prevailed until 2020 when the club hired the Australian firm of Ogilvy, Cocking and Mead to remodel the course. The architects infused it with a bigger, more sweeping style of bunker, removed trees, and shifted and extended greens. It's once again a course that reflects the popular architecture of the moment.

FORMAT

The 15-team, 54-hole tournament will use a traditional five-count-four format where five golfers play, but only four scores are counted toward the team leaderboard. Golfers will play 36 holes on Monday, followed by one final round on Tuesday.

TEE TIMES AND PAIRINGS

The Oklahoma lineup tees off at 8 a.m. Monday morning in a shotgun start. The Sooners will tee off on holes 16-18.

LIVE STATS

Live scoring will be available on Golfstat.

UP NEXT

Following the conclusion of the Hogan, the Sooners travel to Houston for the Big 12 Match Play Championship where OU set records last season en route to a runner-up finish. The conference's fall championship is slated for Oct. 9-11 at Houston Oaks Country Club.