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Texas Tech Men's Golf Preview - Spring Tournament #1 // Season Tournament #5
Tournament: 2024 Southwestern Invitational
Host: Pepperdine
Dates: Jan. 29-31 (Mon.-Wed.)
Format: Stroke play/5-count-4/54 holes (18/day)
Golf Course: North Ranch Country Club / par 71, 6,800 yards-Lakes & Oaks courses
Location: Westlake Village, Calif.
Live Scoring/Tee Times: SmartGolf.com

Texas Tech Lineup:
1 - Calum Scott
2 - Tyran Snyders
3 - Vicente Marzilio
4 - Baard Skogen
5 - Charlie DeLong
(i) - Tim Wiedemeyer

Participants-13:
Host – Pepperdine (78)
Cal (18)
Colorado (102)
Houston (72)
Ohio State (27)
San Jose State (48)
San Diego State (34)
Texas Tech (21)
UCLA (31)
UNLV (79)
USC (80)
Wake Forest (42)
Washington (4)

(All numbers in parenthesis indicate the team's ranking by scoreboard.clippd.com, as of Jan. 25, 2024)

Schedule of Events:
Sunday, Jan. 28: practice round
Monday, Jan. 29: 18 holes – First Round tee times off 1 & 10, 8 a.m. PT / 10 a.m. CT
Tuesday, Jan. 30: 18 holes – Second Round tee times off 1 & 10, 8 a.m. PT / 10 a.m. CT
Wednesday, Jan. 31: 18 holes – Final Round tee times off 1 & 10, 8 a.m. PT / 10 a.m. CT

Southwestern Invitational Flashback:
2023 Team Champion: Texas (850, -14)
2023 Medalist: Michael Brennan, Wake Forest (207, -9)

Texas Tech Season Flashback:
• Sahalee Players Championship (Sept. 9-10)
Team Finish – T-6/12 (+19, 883), Low Individual – Tyran Snyders, T-14/72 (+4, 220)
• William H. Tucker Intercollegiate (Sept. 25-26)
Team Finish – 2/20 (-26, 838), Low Individuals – Calum Scott and Tyran Snyders, T-2/104 (-10, 206)
• Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational (Oct. 2-3)
Team Finish – 13/15 (+18, 858), Low Individual – Calum Scott, T-20/75 (-1, 209)
• Big 12 Match Play Tournament (Oct. 9-11)
Team Finish – 6/14 (5th-place match, OU def. TTU), Top Individual – Calum Scott, 4-0-1

Notes:

Pepperdine will host the Southwestern Invitational; it will be the 45th edition.
This will be the Red Raiders' second time competing at the Southwestern Invitational as its only other appearance was in the spring of 2007. It was labeled the USC Invitational that season as the Trojans previously held hosting duties. Texas Tech finished 11th in that event.
The Southwestern Invitational has also been known as the Southwestern Intercollegiate, the USC Collegiate Invitational, the North Ranch Intercollegiate or the Cleveland Golf Classic over the years.
The tournament began in 1978 at North Ranch Country Club with USC as the host. Pepperdine and USC co-hosted the event in 2013 and 2014, and the Waves then took over sole hosting duties beginning in 2016.
North Ranch hosted the 1988 NCAA Championships.
Of the 13-team field, three teams are in the Top 25 with Texas Tech being one of them. The Red Raiders enter the tournament with the third-highest ranking behind Washington (4) and Cal (18) at No. 21.
Overall, the Southwestern Invitational will feature eight Top 50 teams while 12 of the 13 are within the Top 100.
This event will mark Texas Tech's first event of the 2024 spring season after competing in four events in the fall. The Red Raiders have six events on its regular season spring schedule.
Last time out, Tech competed at the Big 12 Match Play event, Oct. 9-11. The Red Raiders played five different match play contests, ultimately taking sixth place after a loss to Oklahoma in the fifth-place match. At the event, Tech lost their first match against West Virginia by a score of 3-1-1. In their second match, the Red Raiders swept Kansas. On Tuesday morning the Red Raiders beat Oklahoma State 4-1-0. They then lost to Oklahoma State in a playoff match to compete in the top four for an opportunity to play in Wednesday's championship match. Later that afternoon the Red Raiders matched up against Cincinnati and beat them 2-1-2. In the final match, which was the fifth-place match, the Red Raiders lost to Oklahoma to finish in sixth place.
Weather at the Southwestern Invitational is forecasted to have mainly sunny skies and highs in the 70s but a chance of rain starts in time for Wednesday's final round.

What's Ahead for Texas Tech (regular season):
Feb. 8-10: Amer Ari
Waimea, Hawai'i // Hapuna Golf Course
Feb. 19-21: The Prestige
La Quinta, Calif. // PGA West
March 3-5: Cabo Collegiate
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico // Twin Dolphin Club
March 18-19: All-American Intercollegiate
Houston, Texas // Golf of Club of Houston
March 25-26: Valspar Collegiate Invitational
Palm City, Fla. // Floridian National Golf Club
April 12-13: Thunderbird Collegiate
Phoenix, Ariz. // Papago Club

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