BYU joining the Big 12 Conference set the Cougars up for a plethora of firsts. BYU Men’s Golf is getting set for their first Big 12 Match Play tournament on Monday.
Match play is a bit different than the standard set up for the majority of the tournaments the Cougars play throughout the regular season.
The normal tournament essentially boils down to aggregate scores from each team and whoever has the lowest score through all the rounds wins.
The Big 12 Match Play sets up with the first round being pool play. Houston and Oklahoma will join BYU in their pool.
Pool play sets up a match play bracket. This bracket moves golf closer to sports like basketball and football where instead of winning a group by cumulative points, schools will compete against their matchup within the bracket.
BYU has played two tournaments this season, both in which they also competed against Big 12 competition.
Through those events only one Big 12 school has scored ahead of BYU. At the William H. Tucker Invitational two weeks ago, Texas Tech finished second in the tournament shooting 26-under-par. BYU finished seventh in that event, ahead of conference members Kansas State and TCU.
Finishing behind Texas Tech isn’t too much to get down on themselves about considering the Red Raiders won the Big 12 Match Play tournament last year.
The event tees off Monday morning at the Houston Oaks Country Club in Hockley, Texas with live scoring at golfstat.com