Men’s Golf Hosts Royal Oaks Intercollegiate at Maridoe Golf Club

Monday, October 22

Carrollton, Texas - Maridoe GC

Baylor

Royal Oaks Intercollegiate

Men’s Golf Hosts Royal Oaks Intercollegiate at Maridoe Golf Club

10/21/2018 2:14:00 PM | Men's Golf

11th-annual event has been moved to Maridoe due to flooding at Royal Oaks

WACO, Texas – Baylor men's golf heads to Dallas to host the 11^th-annual Royal Oaks Intercollegiate, which runs Monday at Tuesday at Maridoe Golf Club. This year's tournament was moved to Maridoe in Carrollton, Texas, due to flooding at Royal Oaks.

For the second consecutive season, the tournament will be played using The Maxwell format, with all five players on each team's lineup playing the same hole together. The 14-team field features tournament-host No. 41 Baylor, No. 16 Arkansas, Charlotte, Houston, No. 39 Iowa, Kent State, Michigan, Minnesota, No. 33 North Carolina, No. 34 North Carolina State, No. 1 Oklahoma State, No. 4 Pepperdine, No. 6 SMU and UTSA.

The Bears are coming off a perfect 5-0 match play record on their way to winning the inaugural Big 12 Match Play Tournament, which gave Baylor its first Big 12 title since 2001. Prior to that, the Bears overcame a six-shot final round deficit to win the Trinity Forest Invitational, topping tournament-host SMU by one stroke.

Baylor is also two-time defending Royal Oaks Intercollegiate champions. The Bears won last year's event by 19 strokes after setting the tournament record with a 54-hole total of 25-under-par 827. Six Bears recorded top-10 individual finishes in 2017, with Cooper Dossey winning medalist honors by four strokes at 11-under 202. Braden Bailey tied for third place at 6-under 207, Travis McInroe took fifth place at 5-under 206, Garrett May and Matthew Perrine tied for sixth place at 4-under 207, and Colin Kober tied for ninth place at 3-under 210.

Baylor also won the 2016 Royal Oaks in dominating fashion, running away with a 32-shot margin of victory after shooting 31-under 1,034 in a 6-count-5 event. Bailey and Perrine tied for medalist honors in that year's event at 10-under 203, while Hunter Shattuck tied for third place at 7-under 206 and Dossey tied for sixth at 4-under 209.

A Baylor player has won medalist honors in each of the last three Royal Oaks Intercollegiate. Mikkel Bjerch-Andresen won the 2014 event at 6-under 207, the 2015 tournament was cancelled due to flooding, Bailey and Perrine shared the individual title in 2016 and Dossey won last year's event.

Monday's first round is an 8:15 a.m. CT shotgun start, and teams will continue into a second round with the same pairings immediately after the conclusion of the first round. Baylor players will start from the 18^th hole.

Bailey is in the No. 1 spot in the Baylor lineup, followed by Ryan Grider, Dossey, May and Kober. Austin Cotton, Brandon Hoff, McInroe and Mark Reppe will compete as individuals.

Live scoring for the Royal Oaks Intercollegiate is available at www.golfstat.com. Follow @BaylorMGolf on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook for updates throughout the season.