Cowboy Golf Heads To Texas Seeking Conference Title No. 57

Venue: Whispering Pines (Par 72 · 7,434 Yards) · Trinity, Texas
Date: April 22-24
Video: Big 12 Now on ESPN+ (Championship Round only)
Live Stats: golfstat.com
Twitter: @osucowboygolf
Instagram: @cowboygolf

What 2 Watch 4
• Oklahoma State's men's golf team will seek its 12th Big 12 title this week when it begins play at the Big 12 Championship at Whispering Pines in Trinity, Texas.
• Overall, the Cowboys have won 56 league titles and have produced 48 individual champions since the program's first season in 1947.
• The Cowboys are coming off their best finish of the season, a runner-up showing at the Thunderbird Collegiate. OSU has three top-three finishes in its last four outings.

Championship 411
• The Cowboys will be the tournament's No. 4 seed and will be grouped with fifth-seeded Baylor and No. 6 BYU. The three teams will get their first round underway at 7:30 a.m. (CST) on the 10th tee on Monday. For the afternoon session, the trio will begin play at 1:00 p.m. on No. 1.
• The tournament will consist of 72 holes with 36 being played on Monday followed by 18-hole days on Tuesday and Wednesday. Pairings for the second day of play will be based on the 36-hole totals from Monday's action. The final day's pairings will be based on the 54-hole team totals with the leaders teeing off last.
• Results will be available at Golfstat.com. The final round will be streamed by Big 12 Now on ESPN+.

OSU At The Big 12 Championship
• The Cowboys have 11 Big 12 crowns to their credit. OSU won three of the first four tournaments, finishing atop the leaderboard in 1997, 1998 and 2000. The Cowboys' next league title came in 2005 before reeling off five-straight victories from 2007-2011. OSU claimed No. 10 in 2019 in the first-ever Big 12 Championship contested at The Greenbrier before repeating in 2021 with a one-shot victory at Prairie Dunes.
• In addition to its 56 overall conference titles, OSU has 11 runner-up finishes, three third-place showings, a pair of fourth-place finishes, three fifth-place finishes and has finished sixth once.

Individual Success
• OSU has produced the event's individual medalist on 10 occasions with Leif Westerberg (1997), Charles Howell (2000), Anders Hultman (2002), Hunter Mahan (2003), Pablo Martin (2007), Rickie Fowler (2008), Morgan Hoffmann (2009, 2011), Stratton Nolen (2016) and Kristoffer Ventura (2018) all taking top honors.
• On four occasions in Big 12 play, the Cowboys have produced the medalist and runner-up with Charles Howell and Edward Loar going 1-2 in 2000 followed by Pablo Martin and Ryan Posey in 2007, Rickie Fowler and Kevin Tway in 2008 and Morgan Hoffmann and Tway in 2011.

OSU at Whispering Pines
• Whispering Pines first hosted the event in 2005 with the Cowboys posting a nine-shot victory.
• The championship returned to the layout in 2008 with OSU rolling to a 20-stroke triumph highlighted by Rickie Fowler's four-stroke win over teammate Kevin Tway in the individual race.
• The Cowboys made it three in a row with their win in 2010, finishing 13 shots clear of the field.
• OSU finished sixth in 2012 and third in 2014 before a runner-up finish in 2016. Current Cowboy assistant coach Stratton Nolen clipped the field by one in 2016 to claim medalist honors.
• The Cowboys were the event's runner-up in 2022 at Whispering Pines.

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