Briley Ties School Record with 64 at The Maxwell
May 10, 2003 | Men's Golf
May 10, 2003
Texas A&M's Parker Briley fired a six-under-par 64 on Saturday in the second round of The Maxwell at Ardmore Country Club, tying a 32-year-old school record.
Briley, a junior from Abilene, tied the record set by Steve Veriato in the 1971 Southwest Conference Championships at the A&M Golf Course.
Briley's performance paced a strong team effort by the Aggies, who are in third place going into Sunday's final round after posting scores of 289-277=566 on Saturday.
Oklahoma State leads the tournament with a nine-under-par total of 551, 13 strokes better than second-place SMU (564). Host Oklahoma is in fourth place at 568, followed by Tulsa (570), Arkansas (571), North Texas (573), Oklahoma City (575), Colorado (576), Houston (576), Washington (580), North Florida (586), Penn State (589), Texas Tech (593) and Louisiana-Lafayette (602).
"I'm really excited about the way we played," A&M coach J.T. Higgins said. "We battled on every shot and put ourselves in a position to compete for the team championship. We played very solid as a team. It was fun to watch Parker play today. He hit the ball great, got it up-and-down when he missed a green and had a lot of one-putts."
Oklahoma State's Hunter Mahan and Oklahoma's Blake Martin are tied for the individual lead after posting identical scores of 67-68=135 on the par-70 course, two strokes ahead of third-place Zach Atkinson of North Texas (73-64=137). Briley is in a four-way tie for fourth place at 74-64=138.
A&M junior Stephen Reed also had a big day and is tied for eighth place after rounds of 70-69=139. Also for A&M, junior David Tasker is tied for 27th at 71-72=143, freshman Andrew Parr is tied for 39th at 74-72=146 and senior Shaun Helmle is tied for 74th at 76-77=153. Tasker won the tournament's long drive contest on Friday with a drive of 374 yards.
Briley had just 26 putts in his record-tying round, which included seven birdies and just one bogey. He birdied three of the first five holes.
"I started off hitting the ball really well the first few holes," Briley said. "I started to get a little tired because we had been playing all day, but my adrenaline kept me going. I did a good job of staying in the present and focusing on one shot at a time."
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