The Longhorns are showing resemblance to the team that finished runner-up in the NCAA championships last year. After taking first in The Prestige, they have now won two of their last three tournaments.
After three straight victories, the No. 1-ranked Texas women’s golf team finally lost its first event in four months, placing third at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge.
There are worse ways to spend your February than by playing golf in Hawaii — just ask the Texas Men’s Golf team. Opening their spring season, the Longhorns finished in second place after shooting 37 under par at the Waikoloa Kings’ Course in Waikoloa Village, Hawaii.
The Texas Women’s Golf team found itself in a familiar position at the annual Betsy Rawls Invitational as they trailed the leaders heading into the final round. Unlike the team’s last tournament, where the Longhorns turned a one-stroke deficit into a nine-stroke victory, Texas began Sunday eight strokes behind the leaders.
At this year’s Schooner Fall Classic, Kaitlyn Papp and her teammates would not settle for another runner-up finish, and the Longhorns captured their first tournament win of the season by nine strokes over Alabama.
Coming into the season ranked No. 3, the highest preseason ranking under head coach Ryan Murphy, the Texas Women’s golf team opened its season with a third-place finish at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate.
“This year was great, but I want to keep improving,” Cooper said. “I want to be First Team All-American again. I want to be First Team All-Big 12. I want to get Big 12 Player of the Year, and we, of course, want to win National Championships.”
For a college athlete, there is no greater feeling than winning a national championship, just as nothing compares to the sting of losing one. The Texas Longhorns men’s golf team felt the latter on Wednesday.
