Tech Men's Golf Riding High into Big 12 Championship

April 21, 2006

LUBBOCK, Texas - Riding the high of a unbelievable comeback win at the Aggie Invitational to give the team two wins in its last four tournament the Texas Tech men's golf team will travel to Tulsa, Okla., over the weekend to prepare to take part in the 2006 Big 12 Men's Golf Championship hosted by Southern Hills Country Club.

The tournament will begin on Monday with the first 36 holes of the event and the Red Raiders are slated to begin on the 10th tee at 8:50 a.m.

The course, which has played host to two major PGA Tour events including the 2001 U.S. Open, was established in 1936 and laid out by golf course designer Perry Maxwell and renovated by Keith Foster in 1999.

Texas Tech is currently ranked 14th by Golfweek and 16th in the Golfstat rankings, where they remained this week. Tech's two wins this season match the highest single-season win total in school history.

Junior Oscar Floren climbed into the ninth position after winning his second tournament in his last four outings last weekend. Floren ranks 10th in the latest Golfstat rankings and is eighth nationally with a 71.19 stroke average. His three wins this season tie him for the most in a single-season at Tech with former All-Southwest Conference performer Bryan Novoa, who won three tournaments during the 1995-96 season.

Fans can follow the Red Raiders at the 2006 Big 12 Championship as live stats from the event will be available on www.golfstat.com.

Other notes of interest:• Floren currently holds a career scoring average of 71.03 and is the only player in school history to average better than par in his career (-0.77)• Floren ranks first nationally this season in par five scoring with a 4.52 average and fourth in greens in regulation (75.2)• Floren has shot par or better in 20 of 30 rounds this season• Floren ranks atop Tech's career scoring average list at 72.46, while teammate Andrew Dresser is second with a 72.93 career average• Dresser is ninth nationally in fairways hit with an 81.4 percentage• Texas Tech placed five players on the Big 12 All-Academic Team, tying Missouri for most representation in the Big 12• Five of Texas Tech head coach Greg Sands' six teams rank one through five on the Texas Tech season scoring average list, including this season's squad with a top round average of 290.13

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