Class of 2013: Blake Turner

Congratulations B Turner for graduating with a degree in business administration with a concentration in marketing and a minor in sports management.

Blake also earned All SCAC Honor Roll for his academic performance this semester.

Vos named to Capital One Academic All-District Team

Kalen was recognized for his performance on the course and in the classroom by being named to the Capital One Academic All-District Team. The complete men athletes across NCAA Division I, II and III can be found here. Congratulations on another great year, Kalen!

TU Release

Oregon High School State Championships

Congratulations to Will Street and St. Mary's for winning OSAA 1A/2A/3A State Championship! Will shot 75, 73 to take 4th place individually.

Full Field Results

Also, congratulations to Trevor Warner who finished T11 shooting 72, 77 leading Central Catholic to a fourth place finish at the OSAA 6A State Championship.

Full Field Results

We're looking forward to their impact on our program next year.

TY qualifies for Texas Amateur!!!

TY qualified for the 104th Texas Amateur presented by Insperity. This year the event will be held at Lakeside Country Club in Houston, TY's hometown. The past champions lists reads as a who's who from the PGA TOUR with Texan greats such as Ben Crenshaw, Mark Brooks, Bob Estes, Scott Verplank and Bruce Leitzkie all wining the championship during their amateur days.

TY qualified at Comanche Trace, a course that we've played the last few years, although we had never played the third nine which TY finished on. He birdied the par 5 4th and turned in two over par 38. He then birdied 12 and 14, but dropped shots on 13, 15 and 16. TY once again took advantage of his length and birdied the par 5 17th by curling in a seven footer. After a green in regulation on the 18th, he negotiated 75 feet in two putts to secure his par and post a 74, avoiding a playoff for the final spot.

Qualifier Results

TY hitting a driver on #7 at Southern Trace

SCAC All Sportsmanship Team:Blake Turner

Senior, Blake Turner, was selected to the 2013 Men's Golf All-Sportsmanship Team. The rest of the 2013 spring sports All-Sportsmanship Teams can be seen below. Congratulations Blake!

SCACsports.com

SCAC Interviews

Below are a couple interviews taken after the SCAC Championship. Dwayne Hanberry, the SCAC Commissioner, conducted the interviews.

SCAC Individual Awards

 Along with the team championship, we had some individual awards as well. Alex Hartzell was the lone Tiger  who earned 2nd Team All-Conference honors. Kalen Vos and Tyler Lehmann were selected to 1st Team All-Conference and Kalen was selected as SCAC Player of the Year.

SCAC 2nd Team All-Conference

 SCAC 1st Team All-Conference

SCAC Player of the Year

SCAC Champs!!!

We beat host Centenary 4-1 and Southwestern 3-2 to take the SCAC title. The guys played some great golf as our team won in convincing fashion.

Trinity 4 Centenary 1

Kalen 3&2

Alex 1 up on 19

ELG 8&6

Winston 3&2 TY

B Turner 3&2

Highlights: 

Kalen did Kalen things.

Alex hit a wedge from 78 yards to a foot and a half to birdie the extra hole and win the match.

ELG dominated.

Blake overcame a two hole deficit on the front side.

Trinity 3 Southwestern 2

Alex 7&5 

ELG 5&4

Hebert 3&2 B Turner

Cowart 4&3 TY

Kalen 3&2

Highlights:

Alex was bogey free and didn't lose a hole. YEAHHHH.

ELG didn't lose a hole and still never saw holes 15-18.

Kalen did more Kalen things.

Champions

For more information- see scacsports.com writeup

2013 Alumni Match

We had another great alumni match at Brackenridge Park. It was great to get some of the old players back together and have them meet the new student-athletes. Mix in some great golf and weather and it was a pretty good Saturday. The alumni won both fourball matches and the two sides split the singles matches 2-2, giving the alumni the 4-2 advantage.

Back Row: Simon Thompson, Chase Clayton, Craig McConnell and Eric Davis

Front Row: Marcus Mlcak, Peter Senior and Jonathan Alden

Not Pictured: Matt Bley

Thanks so much for all you do to support our program!

SCAC POTW: Kalen Vos

Kalen picked up another SCAC Golfer of the Week award when he won the West Region Invitational! That is his third Golfer of the Week honor of the year and the Tigers have claimed four of the five. The first two rounds Kalen hit 13 and 14 GIRs, which is right around his average for the year. The final day, his ball striking wasn't as solid but he managed only 27 putts to keep his round together and win the event by two strokes.

Trinity Release

SCAC Sports

West Region Invitational

Congratulations to Kalen Vos for winning his first collegiate tournament! After a slew of top five finishes, things finally worked out for him to take medalist honors. TY had another great finish ending the tournament in solo third and joining Kalen on the All-Tournament Team. We really needed a team win in the event, but we were unable to earn the title. We'll leave for our conference championship next Thursday in attempts to win our first SCAC title since 2005.

3 Trinity University   301 311 312 924

1 Kalen Vos                74 74 74 222

3 Tyler Lehmann          72 74 81 227

T18 Alex Hartzell         79 81 79 239

T18 Erik Long-Goheen  77 82 80 239

T23 Blake Turner          78 83 79 240

30 Stephen DePuma    78 84 88 250

The All-Tournament Team

TY two putts for par on the 8th hole in round two.

Alex gets up and down to save par on #8 in round two.

SCAC POTW: Tyler Lehmann

TY earned SCAC Golfer of the Week honors for his play at the West Cup. He shot 70 71 73 to finish T6 in the loaded field. Tigers have won the award three of the four weeks this spring.

TY is second on the team in scoring average at 75.57

TU Site
SCAC Site

West Cup Results

 8 Trinity University      298  298  304    900   +48

T  6  Tyler Lehmann       70   71   73    214    +1 

T 32  Alex Hartzell         76   75   74    225   +12 

T 41  Kalen Vos             75   75   77    227   +14 

T 72  Erik Long-Goheen  81   77   80    238   +25

T 74  Blake Turner          77   78   84    239   +26

Full Field Results

West Cup

This was our first trip out to Goose Creek Golf Club for the first ever West Cup. As you can see, the course was in fantastic shape. While forgiving off the tee, the green complexes were very difficult, with drop offs that filtered into collection areas and greens running 12s on the stimpmeter.

The 422 yd par 4 15th from the dogleg.

The par 3s were very demanding. Here is TY on the 185 yd 2nd.

The 18th at Goose Creek is one of the hardest holes the guys have played all year. It is a 466 yard par 4 with water all down the right side through the green. The bunker straight ahead is an unreachable 336, but it provides a good aim point. Tuesdays back pin made it extremely difficult to save par from a left of the green bail out.

 ELG with a driver on the 18th.

Kalen

Alex hitting the D

Oak Hills CC Qualifier

Blake Turner won the qualifier for our upcoming trip to California. After an opening 39 on the front, he shot an incoming 36 to finish with a 75, winning in convincing fashion. Oak Hills Country Club was in great shape as the pictures below show.

B Turner two putted the difficult 13th. 

B Turner got down in two from 15ft over the pin on the 203 yard 18th.

Jekyll Island Intercollegiate Invitational

We completed another eventful tournament in Jekyll Island this past Sunday. Unfortunately our scoring Saturday and Sunday left much to be desired. We had the easier morning tee times and failed to post the good team scores necessary to make the move we needed. Some great nine hole stretches by some of the guys but not enough consistent scoring when you're playing against a deep field.

T14 Trinity University 305 312 307-924
T29 Kalen Vos 74 78 76-228
T45 Alex Hartzell 74 83 73-230
T69 Tyler Lehmann 85 73 76- 234
T104 Blake Turner 76 83 82- 241
T120 Erik Long-Goheen 81 78 87-246
Full Field Results

ELG's approach on hole 5 during the practice round.

Alex setting up for a draw on #11.

SCAC POTW: Kalen Vos

Kalen was selected as SCAC Golfer of the Week for his play at the Schreiner Spring Shootout. Kalen recorded his fourth straight top 5 of the year.
TU press release
SCAC Site

After a poor start, Kalen turned it around playing his last 15 holes at -1 to shoot 74.

The Ranch

We were able to stay at a private residence near the course that we call The Ranch. As usual, the guys had a great time exploring the property and taking in the sights and the sounds. This is always one of our most fun trips as there is exotic wildlife, a lake and whole lot of fun things to do on the property.

We played a lot of table tennis over the four days. "I need my butterfly."

ELG got the best of Austin at the air hockey table.

Schreiner Spring Shootout

Unfortunately, the first round was cancelled to extreme winds. We were able to play 18 holes Tuesday and we took third place. We had players play great stretches of golf, but with only 18 holes, there wasn't enough time to recover from a few of our early round mistakes.

3 Trinity University 303
T5 Kalen Vos 74
T7 Alex Hartzell 75
T9 Tyler Lehmann 76
T18 Erik Long-Goheen 78
T37 Blake Turner 85
T37 Austin Jung 85

Stats:
Alex was tied for the tournament lead with 5 birdies, all coming on his final 9 holes.
TY had 4 birdies.

TY played the par 3s at even, tied for first in the field.
Alex played the par 4s at even, tied for second in the field.
Kalen hit the last 15 GIR for a total of 16 on the day.

This is one of the views from the clubhouse, overlooking the 9th on the Creeks and the driving range.

Overlooking Kalen on the 9th green of the Valley.

Off Season Match Play

The guys just finished up their off season match play tournament at the end of January. The seeding was based upon fall tournament scoring averages. The majority of the matches were completed in the fall, but the championship match carried over into the spring. With our SCAC Championship being determined by match play, we will play the format more this fall so our guys will be comfortable with it come April. Congrats to TY for the big win!

Play-in Match:
(8)Stephen 2&1 (9)Blake

Quarterfinals:
(1)Kalen 2up (8)Stephen
(5)Alex WD (4)Reddi
(6)Austin 3&1 (3)Felipe
(2)TY 1up (7)ELG

Semifinals:
Kalen 1up Alex
TY 2&1 Austin

Finals:
TY 1up Kalen

A Look into Spring: Events 4-6

Event 4: April 8-9
The West Region will again be hosted at  Berry Creek Country Club in Georgetown, TX. Despite the 2nd place finish last year, I thought we played very mediocre so I'm thankful we'll have another crack at it. The course is pretty short, but there were only 4 rounds under par for the 54 hole event.
2012 Results

Event 5: April 20-21
The SCAC Championship will have a completely different look this year. We'll play match play in Shreveport, LA at Southern Trace Country Club. With only four teams competing this year, there will be two matches of competition over two days for each team. The first day the two semifinal matches will be contested. The second day, the losers will play for third place and the winners will play in the championship match. The coaches will pair players in individual matches with the winner earning a point for his team. The first team to three points wins the match. Hopefully the format will be a fun and dramatic way to crown a conference champion.

Event 6: May 14-17
The NCAAs will be held in Sandestin, FL at The Links Golf Club and the the Raven Golf Club. If we play well in the five events of the Spring, we'll earn a bid to compete with the nation's best. Since our conference doesn't earn an automatic bid (Pool A), we will have two opportunities to make the event. Pool B, those schools competing without an automatic qualifier and Pool C, the best teams that don't earn a bid via A or B.

Pool A AQs-30 teams
Pool B-4 teams
Pool C-7 teams
2012 Results

A Look into Spring: Events 1-3

The guys and I are really excited about our upcoming schedule. It will provide us an excellent opportunity to test ourselves with great courses and competition.

Event 1: February 25-26
We will try to defend our title at the Schreiner Spring Shootout at  Comanche Trace in Kerrville, TX. We've played this course the past three years so our guys are very familiar with the layout. There is a great mix of high risk/reward tee shots and the course provides a lot of great birdie chances but typically the individual winner is still over par. The weather can be a little dicey in late February, but the course is always in great shape with the bent greens being some of the quickest we see all year.
2012 Results

Event 2: March 15-17
The spring break trip to Jekyll Island, GA is always a highlight of the year. The tournament is huge, with 30 men's teams alternating between morning and afternoon tee times over three days at Pine Lakes. The course allows you to play toward your strengths and typically yields some low scores throughout the week. The majority of the top 25 is at the event and the national picture really shakes out after this week.
2012 Results

Event 3: March 25-26
The is the first year the West Cup is being contested. Hosted by LaVerne just southeast of Los Angeles at Goose Creek Golf Club, the tournament has attracted most of the best teams on the west coast. I'm told the course is solid, so I'm anxious to see how we perform out west.