Texas beat No. 1 Oklahoma State and No. 2 Oklahoma during the final round of the inaugural Big 12 Match Play Championship on Sunday en route to a third-place finish on the weekend.
Texas faced an almost impossible task after falling back eight shots after the second round of the Big 12 Championship, but the Longhorns still closed strong in the final two rounds at Southern Hills Country Club.
In dramatic fashion, Texas came from behind after a slow start in the first round to win the Big 12 Championship for the second year in a row. Three individual top-10 finishes propelled the Longhorns to first place, eight strokes ahead of Baylor and Oklahoma State.
The Big 12 conference tournament, which begins Friday and concludes Sunday, will be played at the Dallas Athletic Club, a course that no member of the Longhorns’ team has played before.
Texas’ senior linksman Doug Ghim put himself in exclusive company last weekend by finishing as the low amaetur at the Masters, thus sharing a distinction also once held by some of golf’s biggest names.
