AMARILLO, Texas – Midwestern State is part of the 15-team field competing at the Ryan Palmer Foundation Invite. The 54-hole tournament gets underway Monday morning with the final 18 holes of the tournament scheduled for Tuesday at Amarillo Country Club.
Midwestern State was one of three teams to shoot under par in the final round of the Hrnciar Invitational last week and finished in second place, six strokes behind Pittsburg State at 13-under 851. Anniston McIlwain tied for third on the individual leaderboard at 7-under 209.
McIlwain had five birdies in his final round and finished the 54-hole tournament with 14 biridies, which tied five other golfers for second most during the tournament.
The Mustangs tied for the tournament lead in birdies with 53 and had the second-most pars with 174.
The Mustangs dominated the par 5s over three rounds at the Territory Golf Club, shooting 24-under par.
Last year at the Ryan Palmer Foundation Invitational, MSU was 4-under after the first two rounds, but shot 8-over 292 in the final round and finished in 10th place at 4-over 856. Odessa College won the team title last year at 30-under 822.
This year, the Mustangs are one of 10 Lone Star Conference teams competing in the tournament, including the hosts West Texas A&M.
Western New Mexico, Oklahoma Christian, Cameron, Lubbock Christian, UT Dallas, Dallas Baptist, UT Tyler and Texas A&M International are the other LSC schools in the field, and they are joined by Fort Lewis, Westminster, Colorado Mesa, Texas A&M –Texarkanna and Hutchinson Community College.
Amarillo Country Club, established in 1919, was completely renovated in 2012 by five-time PGA Tour winner D. A. Weibring and Golf Course Architect Steve Wolfard.
The par -71, 6,937-yard course features bent-grass greens with Bermuda-grass fairways.
The weather forecast calls for a high in the upper 80s with mostly sunny skies and a 15-20 mph wind from the south on Monday. Scattered thunderstorms are in the forecast for Tuesday.
MIDWESTERN STATE LINEUP
1. Anniston McIlwain
2. Ryan Griff
3. Jaxon Donaldson
4. Carter Ray
5. Collin Moody
IND Bryce Hoech
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