KFDM COOP Posted October 24, 2006 Report Posted October 24, 2006 Lamar men's golf plays Pepperdine tournament SOMIS, Calif. - After posting a 29-stroke win at the Fighting Irish Gridiron Classic two weeks ago, Lamar University's men's golf team continues its fall schedule today and Tuesday at The Club Glove Intercollegiate hosted by Pepperdine at Saticoy Country Club. The 12-team field includes Colorado, Houston, Kansas State, Kent State, Louisville, New Mexico, New Mexico State, Southern Mississippi, California-Riverside and Xavier. The teams will play 36-holes today and 18-holes Tuesday. Lamar is ranked 10th in the Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index and 14th in the Golfstatrankings. Louisville, 16th in Golfweek and 10th in Golfstat, is the only other ranked team in the field. The Cardinals have four players ranked among the Top 100 in Golfweek's individual rankings. Junior Dawie Van Der Walt is ranked 44th followed by junior Casey Clendenon (53) and sophomores Justin Harding (74) and Oliver Bekker (91). Van Der Walt, a native of Cape Town, South Africa,leads the team with a 72.67 scoring average over nine rounds. However, the Cardinals will have to play the next two tournaments without his services as he traveled home to play for South Africa, which is hosting the Men's World Amateur. Each country fields its top three amateur players with the best two scores counting in the three-day event, which begins next week. Clendenon, a Katy native, is second on the team with a 72.89 average over nine rounds. He is coming off a tie for seventh place at the Fighting Irish Gridiron Classic. Harding, also a native of Cape Town, is coming off a win at theFighting Irish Classic. He is third on the team with a 73.22 average. Bekker, a native of Stellenbosch, South Africa, which is the site of the Men's World Amateur, has a 73.44 average. He placed fourth at the Fighting Irish Classic. Dusty Smith,a senior from The Woodlands, has a 75.11 average. Ryan Kornmann, a senior from Kingwood, is making his first appearance of the season as he takes Van Der Walt's place in Lamar's lineup.
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