{"id":438559,"date":"2026-09-17T07:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T07:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438559\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T07:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T07:38:14","slug":"no-12-mens-golf-claims-jackson-t-stephens-cup-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438559\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 12 Men\u2019s Golf claims Jackson T. Stephens Cup crown"},"content":{"rendered":"

FRISCO, Texas \u2014 The No. 12 Texas Men’s Golf team posted a 3-1 win against Texas A&M on Wednesday in the championship match of the Jackson T. Stephens Cup at PGA Frisco Fields Ranch East. Juniors Eduardo Derbez Torres<\/a> and Daniel Bennett<\/a> and freshman Brooks Harper<\/a> earned the three individual points for the Longhorns during Wednesday’s victory.<\/p>\n

Derbez Torres gave Texas an early 1-0 advantage with a 4&2 win over Kris Kuvaas. The Aggies evened the match score at 1-1 after Landon Ashcraft claimed a 6&4 victory against sophomore Adam Villanueva<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n

All square in his match through 17 holes, Bennett won the 18th hole with a birdie to post a 1-up win over Aaron Pounds. Harper then provided the clinching point with a decisive 4&3 victory against Wheaton Ennis to secure the team championship. The final match of the day between fifth-year Matt Comegys<\/a> and Texas A&M’s Shiv Parmar was stopped with Comegys holding a 2-up lead through 15 holes, when Harper clinched the overall team win for Texas.<\/p>\n

The Longhorns, who earned the top seed in match play by virtue of their 21-stroke margin during the 54-hole stroke-play portion of the event on Monday and Tuesday, recorded their first team title of the 2026-27 season. Bennett and Comegys shared co-medalist honors during the stroke-play event with matching 54-hole totals of 9-under 207.<\/p>\n

Texas will return to action when it competes at the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational on Sept. 28-29 (Monday-Tuesday) at historic Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas.<\/p>\n

The Lineup<\/p>\n


\n\tJunior Eduardo Derbez Torres<\/a> recorded a 4&2 win over Kris Kuvaas. The two players halved each of the first three holes, before Derbez Torres won hole 4 to take a 1-up lead. He held that advantage until he won hole 12 to move to 2-up. Leading 2-up through 14 holes, Derbez Torres won back-to-back holes on 15 and 16 to close out his 4&2 victory.
\n\tSophomore Adam Villanueva<\/a> dropped a 6&4 decision to Landon Ashcraft. Ashcraft took control with a win on the first hole and added wins on holes 5, 7 and 8 to build a 4-up cushion through eight holes. He added wins on holes 13 and 14 to finish his match.
\n\tJunior Daniel Bennett<\/a> registered a 1-up victory against Aaron Pounds. Bennett won the opening hole and held a 1-up lead through six holes before Pounds evened the match with a win on hole 7. After Pounds won hole 10 to grab a 1-up advantage, Bennett rallied with wins on holes 11, 12 and 13 to build a 2-up lead. Pounds responded with wins on holes 14 and 16 to again the match. The two players halved hole 17 before Bennett closed out his 1-up victory with a birdie on 18.
\n\tFreshman Brooks Harper<\/a> secured the overall team victory with a 4&3 win over Wheaton Ennis. Harper won holes 1, 3 and 5 to build an early 3-up cushion. Ennis won hole 6 to close the deficit to 2-down, but Harper won holes 9 and 10 to increase his advantage to 4-up. After the two players traded wins on holes 12 and 13, Ennis won hole 14 before Harper finished off his 4&3 victory with a birdie on hole 15.
\n\tFifth-year Matt Comegys<\/a> held a 2-up lead in his match against Shiv Parmar, when the match was stopped after Harper clinched the team victory for the Longhorns. Parmar won holes 1 and 3 and held a 2-up cushion through four holes. Comegys rallied to win holes 5 and 6 to even the match. The match stayed all square until Comegys won holes 12 and 15 with birdies to build a 2-up advantage. Comegys was in excellent position to clinch his match on 16 when Harper secured the team title for Texas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRISCO, Texas \u2014 The No. 12 Texas Men’s Golf team posted a 3-1 win against Texas A&M on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-438559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438559","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=438559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}