This year's preseason watch list for the Fred Haskins Award presented by Stifel has a decidedly Texas flavor.

Seven of the 20 players play for a Texas school: Texas A&M's Sam Bennett, SMU's Noah Goodwin, Texas Tech teammates Ludvig Aberg and Sandy Scott, and the Texas trio of Pierceson Coody, Cole Hammer and Travis Vick.

The Haskins Award is awarded annually to the most outstanding men’s college golfer, as voted on by players, coaches and media members. Past winners of the Haskins Award include Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Ben Crenshaw and last season's winner, John Pak.

It didn’t take long for Pepperdine men’s golf coach Michael Beard to realize he had something special in Sahith Theegala, maybe a few practices.

He remembers telling him as a freshman that he thought he could be an All-American.

“I knew he was really good,” remembers Beard, adding Theegala had traits you can’t teach. “Most of the things I did that freshman year was look for opportunities to encourage him and let him know how good he really was.”

Want to play on the PGA Tour? You don't have to be a PGA Tour pro, or even a pro, to do it.

Every year a select group of amateurs gets a chance to tee it up with the world's best, and though it is not easy, there are a surprising number of ways for amateurs to get into a PGA Tour event.

Here they are: