February 19, 2001
The Texas A&M men's golf team carded a final round 296 on Saturday and finished 13th at the Taylor Made/Waikoloa Intercollegiate at the Kings and Beach golf courses.
Texas won the tournament with a 54-hole total of 893. Behind Texas were Arizona State (899), TCU (900), Oregon (904), Oklahoma (913), USC (914), BYU (916), Georgia Tech and Washington (923), Nevada (926), UCLA (928), CSU-Bakersfield (931), Texas A&M (932), Hawai'i and Rhode Island (937), Oregon State (938), UC-Santa Barbara (939), San Diego State (940), Pepperdine and Arkansas (942), SMU and San Francisco (954), Nagoya (958) and host Hawai'i Hilo (978).
Nevada's Sprague Kolp shot a 3-over, 217 in the three-day event to take medalist honors. Arizona's Matt Jones was a stroke back while first-day leader Matt Dobyns of Texas and BYU's Scott Miller were at 6-over, 220. Rounding out the top nine were TCU's Adam Rubinson (221, 5th), Oklahoma's Cody Freeman (222, 6th) and USC's Alex Kuyumjian, Texas's Matt Brost and Jason Hartwick in three-way tie for seventh with 223.
A&M was led by sophomore Matt Lindholm, who carded rounds of 82-70-75=227 to tie for 19th place in the individual standings. Junior Josh McCoy (82-77-75=234) and senior Casey Cronin (78-79-77=234) tied for 46th, freshman Stephen Reed (90-78-69=237) tied for 67th and sophomore Shaun Helmle (90-79-77=246) tied for 102nd.
The Aggies return to action when they begin play Sunday in the Puerto Rico Invitational at San Juan, P.R.