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Sophomores Marijosse Navarro (left) and Bianca Fabrizio (right) will travel with the rest of the A&M
women's golf team to the Rebel Intercollegiate tournament this weekend.
Women's golf team looks to spring back
at Ole Miss weekend tournament
By Cole Stenholm
The Texas A&M women’s golf
team returns to action for the first
time since mid-March this weekend, as
the team travels to the Rebel Intercol
legiate competition in Oxford, Miss.,
hosted by SEC - foe Ole Miss.
The tournament will be held at the
Ole Miss golf course, and will play
6,210 yards from the tee. Water comes
into play on six of the 18 holes on the
par 72 course, which features the tra
ditional setup of 10 par fours, four par
fives, and four par threes.
Tournament play will span from
Friday to Sunday and will be in the
standard, 54-hole format, with trophies
going to the first place team as well as
individualists.
Only three of the 18 participating
teams in the field are from the SEC,
which includes Ole Miss, No. 12 Ten
nessee and No. 14 Texas A&M. A&M
and Tennessee are the only ranked
teams in the field.
Although the Aggies as a team have
been off since their run at the Ari
zona Wildcat Invitational on March
17, sophomore Marijosse Navarro
competed as an amateur in last week’s
LPGA event, the Kia Classic. In order
to compete in it, Navarro earned a
special exemption from her victory at
the UC Irvine Invitational earlier this
spring.
However, Navarro failed to make
the -1 cut line at the Classic despite
scoring -2 on the front nine of the host
course in her opening rounds. Navarro
finished at +7, which put her at No.
151. Professional Cristie Kerr won the
tournament, along with its $255,000
cash prize after shooting -20 (268).
The women’s team will have a two
week hiatus after to gear up for the
SEC Championship starting April 17.
Aggie Golf
to host
tournament
Easter
weekend
Invitational to put spotlight on
Traditions course in Bryan
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Senior Greg Yates participates in a tournament hosted on March 23.
By Cole Stenholm
Head coach J.T. Higgins and
the Texas A&M men’s golf team
jump back out onto the links this Easter
weekend, but this time they will stay
in-state.
The Aggies will host the ninth edi
tion of the Aggie Invitational Saturday
and Sunday at their home course at
Traditions Club in Bryan, Texas.
“This is home,” Higgins said. “We
play out here almost every day and we
feel like we know every blade of grass
and what every putt does, and where
to hit it and where to miss, and every
thing that is important about playing
good golf. So, we’re very comfortable
here and we really want to play well on
our home golf course.”
The Traditions course — a par-72,
7,146-yard track with Bermuda fair
ways and rough and TifDwarf Bermu
da greens — was designed by former
PGA golfer and 18-time major cham
pion Jack Nicklaus and his son. Jack
Nicklaus II.
The Traditions Club, opened in
2004, has been selected over the years
as a host site for NCAA Division I re
gional and championship events for
both men’s and women’s golf, and is
the announced site for the 2018 NCAA
Division 1 Men’s Golf Regional. Hig
gins said he believes the Invitational
provides Traditions with an annual op
portunity to put the spotlight on their
course.
“I think Traditions takes great pride
in it,” Higgins said. “It’s become
their annual showcase to show off the
course. It is in perfect condition right
now. The greens are perfect. The fair
ways are really primed up, even with all
of the rain we’ve had. [Golf Course Su
perintendent] Jesse Shulse and his staff
have done an amazing job getting it
ready and it’s just really going to show
well this weekend. ”
Twelve teams from around the
country flock to southeastern Texas
this weekend to compete in the event,
including four of the nation’s top-25
programs. The co-defending 2014
champion No. 6 LSU, 2006 champion
No. 9 Texas Tech, No. 16 Oklahoma
and No. 22 California will all be on
hand.
However, no golf program in this
weekend’s field, or in the country for
that matter, has won the Invitational as
many times as the Aggies, who have
claimed their own event three times,
including a share of last year’s title with
LSU.
The spring has featured ups and
downs for the A&M team, which is
back on the rise with consecutive top-
five team finishes and an individual
medalist at the Valspar Collegiate In
vitational in senior Greg Yates. This
time, however, the Aggies will look
to sustain and build upon their suc
cess, and a tournament on their home
course might just be the trick for them
to do so, Higgins said.
“We feel like we should play good
here,” Higgins said. “Like I said, we
know the golf course like the back of
our hands and we play well here almost
every day, so we expect to play well
and have a great chance to win the golf
tournament.”
Both first and second round action
of the 54-hole tournament will take
place on Saturday, with the first groups
scheduled to go off at 7:30 a.m.
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the term of office (unless fewer credits are required to graduate);
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student) and at least a 2.25 grade point ratio (3.25 if a graduate
student) in the semester immediately prior to the appointment, the
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student) must have been taken for that semester.
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Law, and Society) or equivalent;
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(Media Writing I) and JOUR 303 (Media Writing II)
or JOUR 304 (Editing for the Mass Media), or equivalent.
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