OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – Following a red-hot start the 2017-18 campaign that featured wins in each of their first two events, the Texas A&M men's golf team has earned the top spot in the first regular season Bushnell/Golfweek D-I Coaches Poll.
Texas A&M moves to No. 1 in the Bushnell/Golfweek D-I Coaches Poll after earning nearly half of the first-place votes (10 of 21) and just edging out Oklahoma State in the total first-place votes tally (10 to 9). The Aggies rocket from a preseason No. 16 spot to top billing thanks to wins in their first two events. Particularly impressive was Texas A&M's triumph at the Olympia Fields Country Club/Fighting Illini Invitational, annually boasting one of college golf's strongest fields.
The Aggies' strong start to the season has come without Cameron Champ, a senior who made a name for himself at this summer's U.S. Open and made the U.S. Walker Cup squad after earning All-America honors for A&M as a junior last season. Champ missed the first event of the 2017-18 college season in order to play in the Walker Cup, and his absence at the second was due to back tightness.
Texas A&M men's golf is back in action in the coming days as the Aggies take their swings at the Erin Hills intercollegiate, which gets underway on Sunday at the site of the 2017 U.S. Open in Erin, Wis.
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1 TEXAS A&M (10)
2 Oklahoma State (9)
3 Wake Forest
4 Alabama
5 Florida (1)
6 Georgia Tech
7 Baylor
7 Oklahoma
9 Kentucky
10 Texas Tech
11 Auburn
12 Vanderbilt
13 Kent State
14 Illinois
15 Arizona State
16 Arkansas
17 Duke
18 Missouri
19 LSU
20 Texas
21 BYU
22 Marquette
23 USC
24 Florida State
25 Saint Mary's (Calif.)
Texas A&M moves to No. 1 in the Bushnell/Golfweek D-I Coaches Poll after earning nearly half of the first-place votes (10 of 21) and just edging out Oklahoma State in the total first-place votes tally (10 to 9). The Aggies rocket from a preseason No. 16 spot to top billing thanks to wins in their first two events. Particularly impressive was Texas A&M's triumph at the Olympia Fields Country Club/Fighting Illini Invitational, annually boasting one of college golf's strongest fields.
The Aggies' strong start to the season has come without Cameron Champ, a senior who made a name for himself at this summer's U.S. Open and made the U.S. Walker Cup squad after earning All-America honors for A&M as a junior last season. Champ missed the first event of the 2017-18 college season in order to play in the Walker Cup, and his absence at the second was due to back tightness.
Texas A&M men's golf is back in action in the coming days as the Aggies take their swings at the Erin Hills intercollegiate, which gets underway on Sunday at the site of the 2017 U.S. Open in Erin, Wis.
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BUSHNELL/GOLFWEEK D-I COACHES POLL
Rk School (First-place votes)1 TEXAS A&M (10)
2 Oklahoma State (9)
3 Wake Forest
4 Alabama
5 Florida (1)
6 Georgia Tech
7 Baylor
7 Oklahoma
9 Kentucky
10 Texas Tech
11 Auburn
12 Vanderbilt
13 Kent State
14 Illinois
15 Arizona State
16 Arkansas
17 Duke
18 Missouri
19 LSU
20 Texas
21 BYU
22 Marquette
23 USC
24 Florida State
25 Saint Mary's (Calif.)