Ducks Look To Impress At Loaded Ben Hogan Collegiate

EUGENE, Ore. – The 22nd-ranked Oregon men's golf team heads south for the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational in Fort Worth, Texas, where they will compete against 13 other top-25 teams. The two-day event at Shady Oaks Country Club tees off on Monday, Oct. 2, with live scoring provided by GolfStat.

THE FIELD
The Ducks will be a part of a 15-team field that features 14 top-25 programs in the preseason Bushnell/Golfweek Coaches Poll, including each of the top five teams:

No. 1 North Carolina, No. 2 Arizona State, No. 3 Vanderbilt, No. 4 Georgia Tech, No. 5 Florida State, No. 10 Oklahoma, No. 11 Texas, No. 15 Pepperdine, No. 16 Oklahoma State, No. 17 Texas A&M, No. 17 Texas Tech, No. 20 Georgia, No. 22 Oregon, No. 25 Wake Forest, TCU

THE LINEUP
The Ducks return the same starting five they used at the 2023 NCAA Championships:

Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational
1) Owen Avrit – 2023 PING All-America Third Team.
2) Nate Stember – 2023 All-Pac-12 Second Team.
3) Greg Solhaug – 2023 All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention.
4) Aiden Krafft – 2023 Pac-12 All-Freshman Honorable Mention.
5) Greyson Leach – 2023 All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention.

TEE IT UP

Shady Oaks Country Club is set as a par 70, 6,885 yard track. 36 holes will be played on Monday followed by a final round of 18 on Tuesday.
Oregon finished ninth at last season's Ben Hogan Collegiate, with Greg Solhaug logging a T15 finish at 1-under.
Oregon entered the 2023 season ranked 22nd in the Bushnell/Golfweek preseason coaches poll that was released Sept. 1. The Ducks are one of four Pac-12 schools to begin the season in the top 25.
At the 2023 Mirabel Maui Jim Invitational, the Ducks opened the season with one of the best team scores in program history. The score of 821 was the fifth-lowest 54-hole mark in school history, while the 31-under par marked the fifth-lowest 54-hole-to-par mark.
Several Ducks put on some stellar performances in the season-opener at the Mirabel Maui Jim Intercollegiate. Owen Avrit tied his career-best round with a bogey-free 63 (-8) in the second round, boosting himself to tie for 13th overall. Thomas Jenkins Jr. logged his best tournament as a Duck in the Maui Jim Individual, firing a 12-under 204 (69-66-69) to tie for second place. Sophomore Aiden Krafft shot under-par in each of his three rounds, finishing with a 5-under 208 to tie for 25th.
Owen Avrit currently ranks 18th in PGA TOUR University's rankings for the class of 2024. Avrit became the eighth all-american under head coach Casey Martin and first since Norman Xiong (2018) when he claimed PING All-America Third Team honors in June 2023.