Men's Golf Competes at Stanford This Weekend
CORVALLIS — The Oregon State men’s golf team will try for its third straight top five finish this week as the Beavers take part in the U.S. Intercollegiate, hosted by Stanford, on Saturday and Sunday (April 14-15).
The event is being contested at the Stanford Golf Course in Palo Alto, Calif. It is a par-70, 6,742-yard course.
The Beavers are one of 15 schools participating. With Golfstat rankings noted, the field consists of #1 Stanford, #31 Washington, #32 UC Irvine, #45 Minnesota, #55 Xavier, #59 Colorado State, #68 Oregon State, #85 Nevada, #86 Arkansas, #109 Washington State, #112 Missouri, #140 Rice, #141 San Jose State, #144 UNC Wilmington and UC Davis.
OSU’s lineup will be sophomore (Vancouver, Wash./Skyview HS), freshman (Bogota, Colombia/Gimnasio Los Caobos), junior (Portland, Ore./David Douglas HS), junior (Langley, B.C./Langley Secondary/UTEP) and freshman (Bend, Ore./Sisters HS). The first four have been regulars, while Barton will make his first varsity appearance of the spring.
The Beavers have been outstanding in their last two tournaments, placing second out of 12 teams at the Oregon Duck Invitational on March 26-27, and then taking fourth out of 18 teams at the Ogio-Pacific Coast Intercollegiate. OSU’s 22-under 842 at the latter event was the second-best team score, relative to par, in school history. had his best finish of the year at the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate, as he tied for 13th place with a 7-under 209.
"The venue at Stanford is awesome," said sixth-year head coach . "It’s a tournament that everybody looks forward to every year. This year we’re in a little different situation than the last couple of years. We should be in very good shape for making the NCAA Regionals. So we obviously want to play well, but we don’t have the pressure of thinking that we have to win the tournament to go to the postseason. Our guys have been playing solid golf the last three or four weeks and I don’t expect anything to change. We’re going down there with good attitudes and we’ll see what happens."
Among the regulars, Allenby leads the scorers with 72.33 strokes per round, followed by Johnson (72.53), Velasquez (72.81) and Williams (73.88).
This is OSU’s last event prior to the Pac-10 Championships, hosted by Oregon, on April 23-25.
