HOUSTON, TEXAS (September 12, 2008) Ahead of Hurricane Ike, Rice University's golf team has journeyed to Lawrence, Kan., for next Monday and Tuesday?s 2008 Kansas Invitational.The 54-hole tournament is set for Alvamar Golf Club (par-72, 7058 yards) in Lawrence. Teams are slated to play 36 holes on Monday and 18 holes Tuesday.
Four Rice players who competed at the San Francisco Invitational earlier this week (senior Kyle Kelley, junior Michael Buttacavoli and sophomores Michael Whitehead and Robert Burrow) will compete next week. Rounding out the Rice five-player field is freshman Erik Mayer who will compete in his first collegiate tournament.
Houston was expected to defend its 2007 title but pulled out of the tournament this week. The 15-team field will include host Kansas, Illinois State, Louisiana-Lafayette, Nebraska, TCU and UC-Davis.
Rice is coming off a 14th-place finish at the San Francisco Invitational earlier this week. Whitehead and Buttacavoli were the Owls' top-finishing golfers last week, each finishing with three-round scores of 225 to tie for 42nd at the Olympic Club.
The Owls flew out of Houston early Friday morning and are in Lawrence. Practice rounds are slated for Sunday at Alvamar Golf Club.
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