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Briggs says Aggies should
peak when it really counts
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by Bill Robinson
Battalion Staff
Although the Texas A&M
golf team has not won a tourna
ment this season, the Aggies still
have a chance to win the confer
ence title, all-America Danny
Briggs says.
“This year we’ve started at
the right rate,” he said. “We
started preparing for the South
west Conference and NCAA
tournaments in January.
“You have to build up over a
period of time. We’re going to
peak at the right time.”
Briggs said the team should
reach its peak by the NCAA
Tournament, which will be held
May 26-29 in Pinehurst, N.C.
“Man for man I think we’re as
good as anybody in the nation,”
he said. “It we play good we can
win it.
“All year long the team has
had two or three guys doing well
but never could get that fourth.”
One reason the Aggies ha-
Danny Briggs
ven’t won is that their play in the
short game — pitching and put
ting — has not been consistent,
he said.
“We haven't putted well be
cause we don’t have enough con
fidence in our putting,” he said.
To make up for it, he said, the
team has been spending as much
as six hours of practice, from
noon to dark every day, work
ing on the short game.
Three of the team’s top five
are now averaging an even par
72 for 18 holes and a fourth has
a one-over-par 78 average,
apparently as a result of the long
hours the Aggies spend on the
golf course.
“If we could shoot our aver
ages in tournaments we could
win,” he said.
This weekend the Aggies will
be looking for their first SWC
golf title since 1969 in the con
ference tournament at the Quail
Valley Country Club in Missouri
City, near Houston.
The University of Houston,
which has won all but one of its
tournaments this season, is the
favorite in the competition but
Briggs said the Aggies could win
it.
“Houston’s great, but I don’t
feel they’re better than we are,”
he said. “Its a three-team race
for the SWC title between us,
Houston and the University of
Texas.”
Six Aggie golfers will compete
in the tournament with the top
four scores being counted.
Golfers competing for the
Aggies in the tournament are
Briggs, Gary Krueger, Paul
Oglesby, Jackie Lee, Sandy
Pierce and Kel Devlin.
Briggs said the most consis
tent player on the team is Gary
Krueger.
“Gary has been playing abso
lutely great,” he said. “He was
all-SWC last year and will be all-
America this year.”
Coach Bob Ellis also received
Briggs’ praise.
“When Coach got here we
had never been to nationals,” he
said. “Since then, we’ve been to
NCAA’s four times and finished
in the top 10.”
The Aggies were No. 10 last
year .
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DENVER — The Denver
Nuggets may have been leading
at the half 73-56, but coach
Doug Moe was still concerned
about the ability of the opposi
tion to seize the initiative late in a
game.
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