Browsing: Mike McGraw

“This golf course will test you, but par is a good score,” McGraw said. “The reality is, if you play well, you’re probably going to make it [to nationals]. If you don’t, you’re probably not going to make it. So ideally, we just need to do what we’ve been doing lately, and that will probably be good enough to get out.”

“I think every tournament since the Aggie — even though the finishes might not be first — we know we’re getting better and starting to yield the fruit of hard work,” McGraw said. “We still have a long way to go to be the team we want to be, but you can feel the energy, so I love that.”

“Aggie was a big, big turning point for us,” Dossey said. “It was nice, because we played really good team golf. Everyone contributed a lot. A lot of us were in contention individually. Then, in Arizona, I remember coach just kind of told us before the last round, ‘Let’s go build some momentum before conference,’ and that’s exactly what we did.”

Following an encouraging start to the fall season with a third-place finish in San Antonio, Baylor men’s golf will take on the toughest field of its season so far at the Fighting Illini Invitational, which begins Friday at Olympia Fields Country Club.

After one of the best season-long showings in Baylor men’s golf history, Keefer was named the Big 12 Men’s Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year for the second year in a row, becoming the first men’s golfer in Big 12 history to win the award in back-to-back seasons. But he’s not done collecting the accolades just yet.