Red Raiders ready for national championships

Friday, May 24

Carlsbad, Calif.

Texas Tech Athletics

NCAA Championships

Photo by: Derick E. Hingle

Red Raiders ready for national championships

May 22, 2024 | Men's Golf

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By: Matt Burkholder

Texas Tech Men's Golf Preview - 2024 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships
Tournament: NCAA Championships
Host: Texas
Dates: May 24-29 (Fri.-Wed.)
Format: Stroke Play (4 rounds/5-count-4/Fri.-Mon.); Match Play (3 rounds/Tue.-Wed.)
--all 30 teams guaranteed 54 holes of stroke play (Fri.-Sun.); must qualify to advance for remaining days--
Golf Course: Omni La Costa Resort & Spa, North Course / par 72, 7,538 yards
Location: Carlsbad, Calif.
Live Scoring/Tee Times: Golfstat.com (stroke play), Golfstat.com (match play)
Watch: Golf Channel/Peacock (Mon., Tue., Wed. only)

Texas Tech in the National Rankings
No. 11 - NCAA Clippd Rankings (last update, May 21)
No. 15 - Bushnell/Golfweek Coaches Poll (last update, May 3)

Texas Tech Team Lineup:
1 - Baard Skogen
2 - Calum Scott
3 - Matthew Comegys
4 - Tyran Snyders
5 - Vicente Marzilio
alternate - Charlie DeLong

Participants — 30 teams & six playing as individuals
Teams // listed in order of NCAA seeding

Auburn
Vanderbilt
North Carolina
Tennessee
Florida State
Texas
Virginia
Texas Tech
Oklahoma
Arizona
Illinois
Florida
Georgia Tech
East Tennessee State
California
Texas A&M
New Mexico
Oklahoma State
Purdue
Stanford
Wake Forest
Notre Dame
Baylor
Ohio State
North Florida
LSU
SMU
Clemson
West Virginia
Utah

Individuals // listed in order of NCAA seeding

Ethan Evans, Duke
Cameron Huss, Wisconsin
Nick Mathews, NC State
Ben Warian, Minnesota
Andi Xu, San Diego
Kelvin Hernandez, UNCG

Schedule of Events:
Thursday, May 23: practice round

Friday, May 24:

All Teams: Stroke Play, Rd. 1 (18 holes), tee times from 6:40 a.m. to 2:34 p.m. PT
- Texas Tech tee times 12:55 p.m.-1:39 p.m. PT off of No. 10 Tee

Saturday, May 25:

All Teams: Stroke Play, Rd. 2 (18 holes), tee times from 6:40 a.m. to 2:34 p.m. PT
- Texas Tech tee times 7:35 a.m.-8:19 a.m. PT off of No. 1 Tee

Sunday, May 26:

All Teams: Stroke Play, Rd. 3 (18 holes), tee times from 6:40 a.m. to 2:34 a.m. PT
- Texas Tech Rd. 3 tee times TBD / teams re-paired according to 36-hole scores
- After Round 3, the field will be cut to the low 15 teams and the low 9 individuals not on those teams

Monday, May 27:

15 Teams/9 Individuals: Stroke Play, Rd. 4 (18 holes), tee times from 10:30 a.m. to 1:04 p.m. PT
- After Round 4, the field will be cut to the low 8 teams for match play competition & 72-hole individual champion will be crowned

Tuesday, May 28:

8 Teams: Match Play, Quarterfinals, tee times from 6:50 a.m. to 8:20 a.m. PT
4 Teams: Match Play, Semifinals, tee times from 1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. PT

Wednesday, May 29:

2 Teams: Match Play, Championship Match, tee times from 2:05 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. PT

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
• Southwestern Invitational (Jan. 29-31)
Team Finish – T-6/13 (-7, 845), Low Individual – Tyran Snyders, T-3/75 (-10, 203)
• Amer Ari Intercollegiate (Feb. 8-10)
Team Finish – T-4/18 (-57, 807), Low Individual – Matthew Comegys, T-4/124 (-17, 199)
• The Prestige (Feb. 19-21)
Team Finish – 1/24 (-33, 819), Low Individual – Tyran Snyders, T-4/120 (-9, 204)
• Cabo Collegiate Invitational (March 3-5)
Team Finish – 2/15 (-10, 842), Low Individual – Matthew Comegys, 6/80 (-5, 208)
• All-American Intercollegiate (March 18-19)
Team Finish – 1/20 (+7, 871), Low Individual – Calum Scott, T-6/100 (-1, 215)
• Valspar Collegiate (March 25-26)
Team Finish – 12/16 (+10, 862), Low Individual – Tyran Snyders, T-15/86 (-1, 212)
• Thunderbird Collegiate (April 12-13)
Team Finish – 9/17 (-2, 850), Low Individual – Matthew Comegys, T-14/96 (-3, 210)
• Big 12 Championship (April 22-24)
Team Finish – T-6/14 (+7, 1159), Low Individual – Matthew Comegys, 14/63 (-1, 287)
• Baton Rouge Regional (May 13-15)
Team Finish – 3/14 (-8, 856), Low Individual – Baard Skogen, 1/68 (-8, 208)

Additional Notes:

The Texas Tech men's golf team is set to appear in the NCAA Championships for the fourth straight year; it will be Tech's fifth appearance out of the last six finals.
It will be the Red Raiders' 16th overall appearance at the NCAA Championships and 12th under head coach Greg Sands, who is in his 22nd season at the helm of the program.
- The Red Raiders NCAA Championship appearances occurred the following years: '56, '59, '60, '76, '02, '06, '07, '09, '10, '13, '15, '18, '21, '22, '23, '24.
Tech's best finish as a program at the NCAA Championships is fifth, having done so three different times (2010, 2018, 2022). The Red Raiders fell in the quarterfinal round of match play on each of those occasions - per the NCAA, teams losing in the match play quarterfinals are credited with fifth-place finishes.
The addition of match play to determine the NCAA team champion began in 2009. The Red Raiders are 0-3 all-time in NCAA match play competitions.
The Red Raiders were selected to participate in the 2024 postseason on May 1 and were placed in the Baton Rouge Regional as the 3-seed in a field of teams seeded one through 14. The selection marked the 22nd-straight regional appearance for the Red Raiders and 25th overall for the men's golf program.
Needing to be one of the top five teams to advance, Tech earned a bid to compete for a National title by finishing third behind stellar performances by Baard Skogen and Calum Scott, who finished first and second, respectively. The Baton Rouge Regional also qualified Auburn (-21), Virginia (-13), the third-place Red Raiders (-8), as well as Ohio State (E), and regional host LSU (+4) grabbed the fifth and final spot.
Skogan fired a final round 6-under 66 to earn medalist honors that aided a 54-hole finish of 8-under 208. Scott carded a final round 5-under 67, leading him to a 6-under 210 after three rounds.
The Red Raiders entered the postseason having a dominant spring that included a three-event, one-month stretch where they earned two wins and one runner-up finish.
Tech entered the spring season ranked No. 21 and rose as high as No. 5 in the national rankings on March 6. The Red Raiders entered the regional round at No. 14 via the May 9 Scoreboard powered by Clippd rankings. The Red Raiders enter the NCAA Championships ranked No. 11.
The foursome of Tyran Snyders (51), Calum Scott (53), Matthew Comegys (68) and Baard Skogen (93) each rank inside the nation's top 100 of individual players entering the National Championships. All four also enter this week owning a sub-72 scoring average in the 2023-24 season.