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Champ to Represent Aggies at NCAA Championship
May 26, 2016 | Men's Golf
EUGENE, Ore. — Representing the Texas A&M men's golf team as an individual, sophomore Cameron Champ will tee off during the stroke play portion of the 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship on Friday morning at Eugene Country Club.
Champ is slated to tee off his opening round at 11:12 a.m. (CT) Friday and will be paired alongside Ohio State's Tee-k Kelly and UC Riverside's Matt Lutz.
The Aggies narrowly missed out on advancing to the NCAA Championship as a team, tying for fifth place at the NCAA Albuquerque Regional before falling to San Diego State in a one-hole playoff. Champ, meanwhile, punched his ticket to the NCAA Championship by standing out as the regional's top individual, finishing in a tie for seventh before besting Army's Peter Kim in a playoff to advance.
"It's exciting for Cam to have the chance to play at the national championship, although, I know he'd rather be there with his teammates," Texas A&M head coach J.T. Higgins said following the conclusion of the regional. "I think this is the best amateur tournament in the world. The U.S. Amateur is obviously a big deal and it's an older event, but the NCAA Championship has a much stronger field. Everyone there is a great player and the competition is fierce."
Champ, a native of Sacramento, Calif., appeared in 11 of Texas A&M's 13 events this season and ended play as A&M's top individual in three tournaments while leading the squad with a 72.77 scoring average in 30 rounds of competition. Overall, he has notched 11 rounds of par or lower and collected four top-10 finishes.
Eugene Country Club will play at par 70 and 7,014 yards for the NCAA Championship. The stroke play portion of the tournament will feature a total of 54 holes of competition with one round schedule for each day this weekend.
Results and live scoring from the NCAA Championship can be found at GolfStat.com.
Champ is slated to tee off his opening round at 11:12 a.m. (CT) Friday and will be paired alongside Ohio State's Tee-k Kelly and UC Riverside's Matt Lutz.
The Aggies narrowly missed out on advancing to the NCAA Championship as a team, tying for fifth place at the NCAA Albuquerque Regional before falling to San Diego State in a one-hole playoff. Champ, meanwhile, punched his ticket to the NCAA Championship by standing out as the regional's top individual, finishing in a tie for seventh before besting Army's Peter Kim in a playoff to advance.
"It's exciting for Cam to have the chance to play at the national championship, although, I know he'd rather be there with his teammates," Texas A&M head coach J.T. Higgins said following the conclusion of the regional. "I think this is the best amateur tournament in the world. The U.S. Amateur is obviously a big deal and it's an older event, but the NCAA Championship has a much stronger field. Everyone there is a great player and the competition is fierce."
Champ, a native of Sacramento, Calif., appeared in 11 of Texas A&M's 13 events this season and ended play as A&M's top individual in three tournaments while leading the squad with a 72.77 scoring average in 30 rounds of competition. Overall, he has notched 11 rounds of par or lower and collected four top-10 finishes.
Eugene Country Club will play at par 70 and 7,014 yards for the NCAA Championship. The stroke play portion of the tournament will feature a total of 54 holes of competition with one round schedule for each day this weekend.
Results and live scoring from the NCAA Championship can be found at GolfStat.com.
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