April 22, 2012

Texarkana, Texas - The Tulsa men's golf team is in 10th place after the opening round of the 2012 Conference USA Men's Golf Championship. Tulsa carded a score of 301 at the par-72 Texarkana Country Club on Sunday.

Memphis carded an opening round six-under par 282 to take a two-stroke lead over second-place SMU (284). Marshall is in third place with a 287 total, followed by UCF at 290 and UAB and Houston are tied at 292 to round out the top five places.

Tulsa freshman Matt Mabrey shot a one-over par 73 for the Hurricane to sit in 20th place overall. Mabrey, starting the day's round on hole 10, pared each of his first eight holes, before a bogey on his ninth hole, the 18th. On the back nine, he hit three birdies and three bogeys to finish the round with his one-over par score.

Fellow freshman Colton Staggs had a two-over par 74 score for 26th place. He birdied his first hole and then bogeyed his 10th, 12th and 15th holes. Junior Chris Worrell is two strokes behind with an opening round 76 for 36th place.

Juniors John Young Kim is in 45th place with a score of 78 and Mark Mumford is in 50th place with a score of 80.

Second round action gets underway Monday morning with the final 18 holes being played on Tuesday.

Team Results
1.	Memphis	        282
2.	SMU	        284
3.	Marshall	286
4.	UCF	        290
T5. 	UAB	        292
T5. 	Houston	        292
7.	East Carolina	295
8.	Southern Miss	296
9.	UTEP	        297
10.	Tulsa	        301
11.	Rice	        309
Tulsa Individuals
T20.	Matt Mabrey	73 (+1)
T26.	Colton Staggs	74 (+2)
T36.	Chris Worrell	76 (+4)
T45.	John Young Kim	78 (+6)
T50.	Mark Mumford	80 (+8)
Top-5 Individuals
T1.	Jack Belote, Memphis	68 (-4)
T1.	Max Buckley, SMU	68 (-4)
T3.	Jonathan Fly, Memphis	69 (-3)
T3.	Curtis Reed, Houston	69 (-3)
T5.	Greg Eason, UCF	        70 (-2)
T5.	Roman Robledo, Houston	70 (-2)
T5.	Thomas Sutton, UAB	70 (-2)