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Ben Hogan Invitational

OU Finishes Fifth at Ben Hogan Collegiate
October 03, 2023 | Men's Golf
FORT WORTH – The Oklahoma men's golf team finished fifth at the Ben Hogan Collegiate on Tuesday. The 15-team field featured 12 teams ranked inside the top 20 nationally, including the No. 10 Sooners.
OU held the lead entering the final round but struggled on the last day at the par-70 Shady Oaks Country Club. The Sooners (5th, -4) finished as the Big 12's top team and in front of two top-five squads, and have now finished in the top five at 47 of its last 53 regular season events, a streak that dates to the beginning of the 2018-19 season.
The Sooners were paced by Drew Goodman, who posted 68-63-74 to finish in a tie for fifth – his best event this season. Stephen Campbell Jr. grabbed a share of seventh, his season-best finish, after signing for a 72 (+2) on Tuesday. Jaxon Dowell (T14, -2) finished inside the top 15 in his lineup debut for the season, powered by a 65 (-5) yesterday and a team-low 71 (+1) on Tuesday. Luke Kluver (T52, +8) and Ben Lorenz (62, +10) rounded out the OU contingent.
No. 3 Vanderbilt won the event by a stroke, rallying down the stretch to hold off No. 1 North Carolina and win the tournament, which boasted the strongest field in college golf. The Commodores' Cole Sherwood won the individual title after winning on the first playoff hole, defeating Georgia Tech's Christo Lamprecht, earning an exemption into the 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club.
Next, the Sooners travel to Houston for the Big 12 Match Play Championship, where the Sooners 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.
As Oklahoma looks to next week's event at Houston Oaks, it will enter the league's fall championship coming off a week in Fort Worth where it not only finished as the Big 12's top team but finished 17 strokes in front of No. 11 Texas, who was the Big 12's second-best finisher at Shady Oaks. Of the five teams (Oklahoma, Texas, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and TCU) competing at Shady Oaks CC, the Sooners were the only team to finish under par.