PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. \u2014 No. 11 Texas Tech opened play at The Hayt on Saturday with a 1-under-par 287 and is tied for ninth after the first round at Sawgrass Country Club.<\/p>\n
The Red Raiders are competing in a stacked 16-team field featuring eight top-25 teams and sit alongside Clemson and USF in ninth heading into Sunday’s second round. No. 6 LSU holds the opening-round lead at 14-under 274, followed by No. 1 Virginia at 12-under. No. 15 Alabama and No. 2 Auburn are tied for third at 9-under.<\/p>\n
Connor Graham<\/a> led Texas Tech with a 4-under 68 and is tied for seventh on the individual leaderboard. Graham finished the round strong, playing bogey-free after the sixth hole and carding four birdies and eight pars over his final 12 holes. Graham, the ninth-ranked player in the latest Scoreboard rankings, is seeking his seventh top-20 finish in seven events this season.<\/p>\n Ben Gregg<\/a> and Tim Wiedemeyer<\/a> each turned in even-par 72s and are tied for 35th, while Brady McHenry<\/a> and Adam Bresnu<\/a> both shot 3-over 75 to sit tied for 73rd.<\/p>\n Texas Tech continues play on Sunday at 7 a.m. CDT with the second of three rounds at The Hayt. The final round of the scheduled 54 holes of stroke play is Monday.<\/p>\n The Hayt (Round 1 Results) Red Raiders in the Field (Round 1 Results) \u2014 TECH \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. \u2014 No. 11 Texas Tech opened play at The Hayt on Saturday with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-195572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1. #6 LSU: 274 (-14)
\n2. #1 Virginia: 276 (-12)
\nT-3. #15 Alabama: 279 (-9)
\nT-3. #2 Auburn: 279 (-9)
\nT-5. #21 Charlotte: 280 (-8)
\nT-5. UCF: 280 (-8)
\n7. #17 North Carolina: 282 (-6)
\n8. South Carolina: 283 (-5)
\nT-9. Clemson: 287 (-1)
\nT-9. #11 Texas Tech: 287 (-1)
\nT-9. USF: 287 (-1)
\n12. Coastal Carolina: 288 (E)
\nT-13. Liberty: 291 (+3)
\nT-13. #20 Duke: 291 (+3)
\n15. Louisville: 294 (+6)
\n16. North Florida: 296 (+8)<\/p>\n
\nT-7. Connor Graham<\/a>: 68 (-4)
\nT-35. Ben Gregg<\/a>: 72 (E)
\nT-35. Tim Wiedemeyer<\/a>: 72 (E)
\nT-73. Brady McHenry<\/a>: 75 (+3)
\nT-73. Adam Bresnu<\/a>: 75 (+3)<\/p>\n