Tate McVay of West Texas A&M University led his team to a third place finish at a tournament, shooting rounds of 69-76-76 for 10th place individually. Emily Taylor of Texas A&M University-Commerce earned runner-up honors at a tournament to help lead her team to their first ever tournament victory, shooting rounds of 73-73 which were career lows. The Texas A&M-Commerce women's team set school records for 18 and 36 hole scores in winning their first tournament in program history. West Texas A&M men's team finished third in their tournament, which was their best finish since 2014, led by Tate McVay's 221 score.

1. GOLFERS OF THE WEEK
MEN’S
Tate McVay, West Texas A&M University, JR, Sturgis, S.D., Brown HS
McVay paced the Buffs to a third place finish at the Western New Mexico Mustang Fall Intercollegiate with
rounds of 69-76-76 for a 221 score and ed for 10th. The third-place finish was the best team finish for the
Buffs since 2014 and his 69 was the low-round for the team.
WOMEN’S
Emily Taylor, Texas A&M University - Commerce, SR, Howe, Texas, Howe HS
Taylor earned runner-up honors to lead the Lions to their first-ever tournament victory at the Oklahoma Bap st
Fall Invita onal. She had rounds of 73-73 for a 146 total to help set A&M-Commerce school history. Both
rounds of 73 were career lows for Taylor.
OTHER TOP PERFORMERS
NOTES (Submitted by LSC SID’s)
Angelo State
Cameron
Midwestern State
Tarleton State
Texas A&M-Commerce
The Lion women picked up the first tournament win in school history with a playoff victory over Redlands CC at
the Oklahoma Bap st Fall Invita onal... A&M-Commerce shot school 18 & 36 hole records of 299-291=590...
A&M-Commerce women’s golf had not won in tournament ac on since the beginning of the program in 1997...
A&M-Commerce and Redlands outpaced the rest of the field by 26 strokes... Emily Taylor was tournament
runner-up at 73-73=146... Three other Lions ed for 4th at 148... The Lions will look to carry the momentum
of the historic tournament victory into next week’s West Texas Lady Buff Invita onal at Tascosa Golf Club in
Amarillo...
The Lion men finished 19th at the WNMU Fall Invita onal... The Lions shot 298 in the opening round before
rounds of 330 and 314 in the final two rounds to complete the event with a score of 942... Garre Landers
was the Lions’ top finisher with a score of 232 (73-77-82) to e for 56th... Wilfredo Sanchez shot 234 (77-78-
79) to e for 68th... Grayson Benavides (238) was 80th, Jordan Brown (244) was 92nd and Hagan Wood (249)
was 96th... The Lions will look to rebound next week in Wichita, Kan., playing in the Newman Invita onal on
Monday and Tuesday at Crestview Country Club.
Texas A&M-Kingsville
UT Permian Basin
West Texas A&M
The West Texas A&M men’s golf team finished third at the Western New Mexico Mustang Fall Intercollegiate
at the Golf Club of Estrella this week...It was the best team-finish since fall 2014 at the Territory Classic where
the team finished third...WT fired a 2-under 286 in the first round and a 299 for the second round holding a
four-stroke lead heading into the final round of the tournament this week...Junior Tate McVay paced the team
with a 221 score on rounds of 69, 76 and 76 tying for 10th...The 286 was the only round of any of the 20 teams
under par for the tournament.
Western New Mexico
MEN’S SCHEDULE
Monday-Tuesday, October 3-4, 2016
Cameron, Texas A&M-Commerce, West Texas A&M
at Newman Fall Invita onal
WOMEN’S SCHEDULE
Monday-Tuesday, October 3-4, 2016
Cameron at RCB-Central Oklahoma Classic
West Texas A&M, Angelo State, Midwestern State,
Texas A&M-Commerce, Texas A&M-Kingsville, UT
Permian Basin at Lady Buff Stampede
WEEKLY AWARDS
DATE MEN’S
S-8 No nominees
S-15 Brayden Cruth, West Texas A&M
S-22 No nominees
S-29 Tate McVay, West Texas A&M
DATE WOMEN’S
S-8 Ma ye Mason, West Texas A&M
S-15 Casey Wild, Tarleton State
S-22 Lydia Traylor, Tarleton State
S-29 Emily Taylor, Texas A&M-Commerce
GOLFLONE STAR CONFERENCE WEEKLY RELEASE | SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
Contact: Melanie Robotham | Assistant Commissioner | O: 972-234-0033 x. 103
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