Baylor men’s golf is leaving home behind and heading west for a different kind of test.
The Bears will tee it up Oct. 12-14 in Salt Lake City, Utah, for the Big 12 Match Play Tournament at The Country Club of Salt Lake City, a three-day event that brings all 16 league programs together in match play. Baylor enters as the No. 13 seed and lands in Pool D with No.
4 Kansas, No. 5 TCU and No.
12 West Virginia.
The Big 12 coaches handled the seeding, and the top of the bracket went to Oklahoma State, followed by Texas Tech, Arizona State and Kansas.
Baylor arrives with some momentum from the Trinity Forest Invitational in Dallas, where it posted its best finish of the season. The Bears placed fourth in a 17-team field at 20-under par, sparked by a 13-under final round that stood as the low round of their season. Seniors Alex Heard and Jonas Appel paced the effort, each finishing tied for eighth, while Tyler Sanford and Davis Ovard both ended up tied for 26th.
This week, though, the format changes the equation. Baylor has played three stroke-play tournaments to start the season, but match play turns every hole into a head-to-head battle.
Each team matchup includes five individual matches, with one point awarded for each win and a half-point for a tie. The team that collects the most individual points earns three points in the pool standings, while tied matches give each team one point.
Pool play opens Monday with two rounds, starting at 9 a.m. CT and then 2:30 p.m.
CT. The final pool round comes Tuesday morning, with the four pool winners moving on to the semifinals that afternoon.
The championship match is set for Wednesday morning, and the rest of the field will play placement matches to finish out the week.
Results and live scoring will be available on Scoreboard by Clippd.
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