UTSA Oak Hills Invitational Final Results

THE RUNDOWN
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - The Baylor men's golf team claimed the UTSA Oak Hills Invitational championship by 16 strokes after shooting 6-under-par 278 in Tuesday's final round. Kyle Jones won the tournament's individual title for a third consecutive season, becoming the first-ever three-time medalist.

The Bears finished the tournament with a score of 2-under-par 850, which was 16 strokes better than second-place UTSA (+14). Oklahoma (+19) placed third, North Texas (+24) finished in fourth place and Wichita State and Houston Baptist rounded out the top-five at 25-over par.

Jones shot 4-under-par 67 in the final round to finish at 8-under 205, earning him the tournament championship by two strokes over Houston Baptist's Preston Stanley. Andreas Gjesteby finished in third place at 3-under par 210 after shooting 2-under 69 in the final round. Filippo Zucchetti finished the tournament in a tie for 10th place at 3-over-par 216 after a final round of 2-over 73.

Mikkel Bjerch-Andresen shot even-par 71 in the final round to move up 19 spots on the leaderboard into a tie for 45th place at 11-over. Frederik Andersen finished the tournament in a tie for 56th place at 15-over, and Nick Thornton, who competed as an individual, tied for 69th place at 19-over 232.

HIGHLIGHTS
? Baylor claimed its second tournament title of the 2014-15 season - the Bears also won the fall season opener at the Gopher Invitational.
? Baylor has finished in the top-3 in five of six tournaments under first-year head coach Mike McGraw.
? Baylor led the field in par-3 scoring in the final round with an average of 3.00.
? The Bears had 52 birdies in three rounds, which were 10 more than any other team in the 15-team field.
? The Bears were second in scoring average on par-3s and par-4s averaging 3.05 and 4.13, respectively.
? Gjesteby led the field in par-4 scoring average at 3.73 in the third round, while Jones was third in par-4 scoring average at 3.91.
? Gjesteby made a tournament-high 38 pars in 54 holes.
? Jones posted 15 birdies in three rounds, giving him the most birdies made by any player in the tournament.

STAT OF THE ROUND
3 - the number of times Jones has won the UTSA Oak Hills Invitational in his four years at Baylor.

TOP QUOTES
"Kyle does a really, really good job of positioning his golf ball, and he has a good short game," head coach Mike McGraw said. "And on this golf course, the greens are not very big, so you're going to miss a few greens. So you need to get the ball up and down. And you need to play from position, because if you're not, you can't get good birdie opportunities. He plays good, strategic golf and has a good short game, and sometimes there are courses for horses. I hope they play the U.S. Open there some day. I think he could do fine. But he loves the place, and he had a good attitude going in."

"I think we made more putts," McGraw said. "That's the simple way of looking at it. The guys played well. The wind actually blew a little bit today, it blew 15 mph for quite a bit of the round, which kind of changes the whole complexion of the golf course. It's just harder immediately, but they did a good job of handling the wind, and they just played well. I don't know any other way to say it. They were very patient. It's the kind of golf course you generally have to be patient on, because you feel like there's a lot of birdie opportunities, when in reality there's not as many as you think."

WHAT'S NEXT
The Bears head to Humble, Texas, to compete in the Redstone Collegiate Championship, which runs Feb. 20-22. The tournament will be hosted at the Golf Club of Houston. Follow @BaylorMGolf on twitter for updates throughout the season.