Men’s Golf Finishes Season at NCAA Baton Rouge Regional

Santiago De La Fuente, NCAA Baton Rouge Regional Final Round recap

BATON ROUGE, La. – Battling to the end, the University of Houston Men's Golf program posted a three-day score of 870 to finish sixth at the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional at University Club on Wednesday afternoon.

Needing to finish among the Top Five following the Final Round to advance to the NCAA Championships later this month, Houston rallied late with super senior Austyn Reily and senior Santiago De La Fuente each draining birdies on the par-5 17^th hole to pull Houston to within a stroke.

Unfortunately, that would be as close as the Cougars would move on the 7,401-yard, par-72 course. Playing as the No. 9 seed, Houston finished the Final Round with a score of 3-under 285, its lowest team total of the Regional.

De La Fuente recorded four birdies in his Final Round and finished 14^th with a 54-hole score of even-par 216. It was his team-leading seventh Top-20 showing of the season and his sixth straight.

Auburn captured the team championship with a score of 843. Virginia (851), Texas Tech (856), Ohio State (864) and host LSU (868) rounded out the Top Five teams and advanced to the NCAA Championships at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif., on May 24-29.

Duke's Ethan Evans tied for second at 6-under 210 and earned the invitation to the NCAA Championships as the highest individual not from a Top-Five team.

Duke (873), South Carolina (875), Oregon (883) and Louisville (885) rounded out the Top 10 teams.

Junior Jacob Borow posted the Cougars' low round of the day with a 70 and tied for 35^th at 222. The Lake Jackson, Texas, native posted three birdies with only one bogey in the Final Round.

Junior Wolfgang Glawe finished with a 71 Wednesday and tied for 23^rd at 219. Making his NCAA postseason debut, freshman Grant Doggett tied for 45^th at 225.

This marked the 10^th NCAA Regional in which the Cougars will compete under Director of Golf Jonathan Dismuke, who is in his 15^th season at Houston.

NCAA REGIONAL HISTORY
Houston Men's Golf competed as a team in its 24^th NCAA Regionals during the program's rich history with nine Top-Five team finishes.

Houston captured the team championship at the 1998 NCAA Central Regional at Oak Hills Country Club in San Antonio, Texas while four Cougars (Michael Perras, 2016 NCAA Franklin Regional); Blair Hamilton (2016 NCAA Lubbock Regional), Brett Callas (2003 NCAA Central Regional) and Dean Larsson (1994 NCAA Central Regional) earned medalist honors at their respective events.

A year ago, the Cougars finished 11^th at the NCAA Auburn Regional at Auburn University Club in Auburn, Ala. De La Fuente and Braxton Watkins tied for 36^th at 224 to lead Houston.

Reily competed in the fourth NCAA Regional of his Houston career with Borow playing in his third. De La Fuente teed off in NCAA Regional play for the fourth time in his career and his second with the Cougars while Glawe competed in his second NCAA Regional. Doggett made his NCAA postseason debut.

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