March 09, 2006
The No. 25-ranked Texas A&M men's golf team will compete at the Southern Highlands Collegiate Championship Friday through Sunday at Southern Highlands Golf Club.
The tournament will consist 54 holes, with one 18-hole round each day on the par-72, 7,510-yard course. Live scoring is available at www.golfstat.com.
The 15-team field includes 12 teams ranked among the top 25 nationally by Golfweek. In addition to A&M, the field includes No. 1 Georgia, No. 2 Oklahoma State, No. 3 Florida, No. 4 Georgia Tech, No. 5 UCLA, No. 19 Arizona State, No. 10 Duke, No. 13 UNLV, No. 15 Clemson, No. 16 Wake Forest, No. 18 New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Washington.
Representing A&M will be seniors Andrew Parr and Jerad Harklau, freshman Bronson Burgoon and sophomores Robert Gates and Martin Piller.
"We are really excited to be playing in this tournament," A&M coach J.T. Higgins said. "It is like playing in the NCAA Championships and it will give us an idea of how we stack up against the best teams in the nation. It is going to be a tremendous challenge but these tournaments are what we have been working so hard for."
The Aggies opened the spring schedule with a seventh-place finish at the PING/Arizona Intercollegiate and followed with a ninth-place effort at the John Burns Intercollegiate in Hawaii. Parr has finished in the top 25 of all five of his starts this season.