{"id":557652,"date":"2026-03-22T20:11:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/557652\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T20:11:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:11:39","slug":"mens-golf-heads-to-florida-for-valspar-collegiate-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/557652\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Golf Heads to Florida for Valspar Collegiate Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON \u2014 The Rice Men’s Golf team gets right back to the links when it participates in one of the premier tournaments in the country, the Valspar Collegiate Invitational, Mar. 23-24. At Floridian National Golf Club in Palm City, Fla.
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\nTEAM FIELD
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\nRice is ranked No. 56 in the latest Scoreboard rankings. Joining the Owls in the 16-team field are No. 1 Auburn, No. 6 Texas, No. 7 Arkansas, No. 8 Arizona State, No. 10 Texas Tech, No. 13 Pepperdine, No. 14 Oklahoma, No. 17 North Carolina, No. 23 Duke, No. 24 USC, No. 29 Wake Forest, No. 30 Florida State, No. 32 Texas A&M, and No. 69 Houston. Augusta is also participating.
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\nJUSTIN EMIL QUOTABLE
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\n“This is our first trip to the Valspar Collegiate Invitational. \u00a0It’s a great field of teams and another big opportunity for our team this spring. \u00a0We’re excited to get down there and build a game plan for this course.”
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\nLIVE SCORING
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\nFans can follow live scoring of the Valspar Collegiate Invitational by visiting Scoreboard.com or by clicking\u00a0here<\/a>.
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\nLINEUP
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\nLukas Boandl<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 No. 1 position \u2026 leads the team with a 70.61 stroke average \u2026 team-high 18 rounds of par or better and nine rounds in the 60’s \u2026 second on the team with 86 birdies \u2026 two top five, two top ten, and six top 20 finishes \u2026 is third in school history in career stroke average (72.76) and average vs. par (1.15) \u2026 career leader in rounds of par or better (56) and rounds in the 60’s (23), third in top five finishes (5), fourth in top 20 finishes (18), and 10th in top 10 finishes (10) \u2026 tied for first at the Trinity Forest Invitational at -12 before falling on the second hole of a playoff \u2026 opened with consecutive 66’s before closing with a 69 \u2026 set the school record for 36-hile score (132), and his 54-hole score of 201 is the second lowest in school history \u2026 runner-up finish at the Bayou City Collegiate Classic (9\/29-30), finishing -8 and helping the Owls to the team title \u2026 tied for 12th-place at the Argent Financial Classic (9\/7-9) \u2026 tied for 11th at the Cabo Collegiate \u2026 tied for 13th at the Steelwood Collegiate Invitational (10\/25) \u2026\u00a0 2025 AAC All-Conference … 2025 NCAA Bremerton Regional participant.
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\nDaniel<\/a> Zou\u00a0\u2013 No. 2 position \u2026 second on the team with a 71.96 stroke average \u2026 third with 13 rounds of par or better and 75 birdies \u2026 five rounds in the 60’s \u2026 is first in school history in career stroke average (71.86) and average vs. par (0.22), fifth in rounds in the 60’s (14), and ninth in rounds of par or better (34) \u2026 tied for seventh at the Bayou City Collegiate Classic (9\/29-30) finishing at -5 \u2026 tied for 11th at the All-American Intercollegiate (3\/16-17) \u2026 tied for 15th-place at the Argent Financial Classic \u2026 2025 AAC All-Conference … 2025 AAC Freshman of the Year … AAC Golfer of the Week (3\/5) \u2026 2025 NCAA Bremerton Regional participant.
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\nHenry Daly<\/a> \u2013 No. 3 position \u2026 transfer from Virginia \u2026 in his second stint at Rice, where he began his collegiate career as a freshman in 2022 \u2026 third on the team with a 72.23 stroke average \u2026 second with 15 rounds of par or better \u2026 leads the team with 99 birdies \u2026 five rounds in the 60’s \u2026 had a career-best tied for fourth-place finish at the Bayou City Collegiate Classic (9\/29-30), where he tied his career-low round 67 in the first round \u2026 tied for eighth-place at the Cabo Collegiate (3\/1-3), where he opened with rounds of 69-68 \u2026 his 54-hole score of 208 was a career-low \u2026 tied for 18th-place at the Trinity Forest Invitational (10\/5-7).
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\nReggie Zhu<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 No. 4 position \u2026 averaging 73.10 strokes per round \u2026 nine rounds of par or better \u2026 is fifth in school history in career stroke average (73.36) and in average vs. par (1.81) \u2026 tied for 12th-place at the Trinity Forest Invitational (10\/7-9), where he fired a season-low 67 in the final round \u2026 tied for 13th at the Bayou City Collegiate Classic (9\/29-30), where he helped the Owls to the team title.
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\nRaines Watson<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 No. 5 position \u2026 averaging 73.48 strokes per round \u2026 11 rounds of par or better \u2026 three rounds in the 60’s \u2026 fourth on the team with 74 birdies \u2026 tied for fourth-place at the Bentwater Intercollegiate (2\/9-10), closing with a pair of 70’s \u2026 12th-place at the Bayou City Collegiate Classic (9\/29-30) \u2026 set a season-best for low 54-hole score (212) at the Hal Williams Collegiate (2\/16-17) \u2026 fired a season-best 67 in the first round of the Cabo Collegiate (3\/1).
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\nPAIRINGS<\/p>\n

The Owls will tee off at 7:30 a.m. CT from holes No. 14-18. Rice will compete in groups with student-athletes from Augusta, Duke, and Wake Forest. Tuesday’s tee times and pairings will depend on results following the previous round.

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\nUP NEXT<\/p>\n

Following the Valspar Collegiate Invitational, the Owls will travel West Point, Miss., for the Mossy Oak Intercollegiate, their final tournament of the regular season on Apr. 13-14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2014 The Rice Men’s Golf team gets right back to the links when it participates in one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-557652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}