Colonial Country Club set to host Big 12-only golf tournament
Colonial Country Club is hosting another golf tournament without fans this year.
The PGA Tour resumed its season with the Charles Schwab Challenge in June amid the coronavirus pandemic, and the Big 12 will kickoff its fall golf season with the Colonial Collegiate Invitational Sept. 28-29 it announced this week. The tournament will be closed to the public, citing COVID-19 precaution.
This is the first of two events in the Big 12 Fall Series that features only conference teams.
“This is a great opportunity to showcase the premier conference in college golf on a championship golf course,” TCU coach Bill Montigel said in a news release. “We are grateful to the members at Colonial for welcoming the Big 12 Conference for this special event.”
It will be a 54-hole stroke play tournament with schools taking the low four scores each round out of six players. The final results will serve as seeding for the Big 12 Match Play Tournament on Oct. 2-4 at The Clubs at Houston Oaks in Hockley.
TCU is scheduled to play one other tournament this fall that will feature Big 12 teams and schools from other conferences — the Maridoe Collegiate Invitational Oct. 18-20 at Maridoe Golf Club in Dallas.
The Frogs have three seniors on this year’s team in Thomas Allkins, Trevor Brown and Spencer Ball (a Mercer transfer). Sophomore Mateo Fernández de Oliveira is another player of note who reached the Round of 16 at this year’s U.S. Amateur.
