Texas Tech Golf Secures Top 5 Finish at Inverness

 

TOLEDO, OH — The No. 4 Texas Tech men’s golf team kicked off their 2024-25 season with a top-five finish at the 2024 Inverness Intercollegiate, carding a final round 4-over-par 280 on Tuesday. Competing in a loaded field featuring five top-10 nationally ranked teams, the Red Raiders finished fifth with a 54-hole total of 833 (+5).

Sophomore Tim Wiedemeyer led the Red Raiders, finishing fifth individually with a 4-under-par 203. Wiedemeyer posted back-to-back 66s in the second and third rounds, finishing as one of only ten golfers to shoot under par in the tournament. He was bogey-free for the first 15 holes in the final round, carding birdies on holes 1, 14, and 18 before a single bogey on the 16th hole.

Sophomore Ben Gregg also played well, tying for seventh after a final round 66, finishing with a 2-under-par 205. Gregg, competing as an individual, turned in a bogey-free front nine and had only one bogey on the back nine.

Freshman Connor Graham made a solid collegiate debut, finishing tied for 12th with a 1-over-par 208 after a final-round 71.

Texas Tech returns to action at the OFCC/Fighting Illini Invitational at Olympia Fields Country Club from 9/20 to 9/22.

Texas Tech's Tim Wiedemeyer

Texas Tech's Tim Wiedemeyer

(Credit: texastech.com)

Final Results:

  1. Virginia: 826 (-2)
  2. Auburn: 830 (+2)
    T-3. Oklahoma: 831 (+3)
    T-3. Vanderbilt: 831 (+3)
  3. Texas Tech: 833 (+5)

Texas Tech Individual Results:

  • 5. Tim Wiedemeyer: 71-66-66=203 (-4)
  • T-7. Ben Gregg: 69-70-66=205 (-2)
  • T-12. Connor Graham: 67-70-71=208 (+1)
  • T-23. Charlie DeLong: 69-69-73=211 (+4)
  • T-38. Price Hill: 71-73-70=214 (+7)
  • T-50. Calum Scott: 73-70-73=216 (+9)

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