There was no four-peat of the Jayhawk Invitational for the Kansas University men’s golf team.

With the strong winds carrying over to Tuesday’s final round at Alvamar Golf Club, KU couldn’t hold onto its five-stroke lead from Monday’s 36 holes.

The Jayhawks, instead, finished in a tie for second with Oral Roberts at 894 – six strokes behind first-place Houston.

“That’s pretty frustrating to me because I’m a redshirt junior, so every time I’ve been here we’ve won,” said Walt Koelbel, who shot a 4-over 76 on Tuesday for a tournament total of 222. “It’s kind of frustrating for the team that I’m on and we’re not able to, as a team, get it together on the last day when we’re going in with a five-shot lead. That’s kind of frustrating to me to be second and break the streak.”

Houston seemed a little more comfortable on Kansas’ home course than the Jayhawks.

Houston’s Jordan Irwin, who won the individual title with a 54-hole score of 215, was 1-under for the final round and at 1-under par for the invitational. He was the only golfer to finish in the red.

Of the Cougars’ three other top-four players for the round, the worst score recorded was 2-over 74 by two of their golfers.

“They had a really solid day today,” Koelbel said of Houston. “I think we were probably close to them most of the day, but just a lot of our guys came in, including myself, with a couple of bogeys coming in the last couple of holes that gave them the six-shot lead. Maybe we could have finished a little bit stronger, made it a little closer or maybe even tied them or won by one.”

There were plenty of bogeys by the KU golfers, as 4-over par was the best any of those contributing to the team total shot in the blustery conditions.

Kansas’ Nate Barbee, Brad Hopfinger and Andrew Storm all shot 76 along with Koelbel on the final day of competition.

KU’s Zach Pederson, who was competing in the tournament individually, had the best day of any Jayhawk golfer with a 1-over, 73 to finish the invite at 222.

“The greens dried out a lot, and it made putting and chipping really tough,” said Barbee, who was the top Kansas finisher with a two-day total of 221. “It was something we struggled with today. But the course definitely played a lot harder with the wind and how dry the greens were.”

The Jayhawks were so caught up in the strong winds and dry greens they constantly were second-guessing even their shortest shots.

On the par-4, 18th hole, Koelbel misplayed his chip from behind green, leaving it well short of the cup and had to two-putt to bogey the hole.

“I probably should have played a little lower shot, but the greens were so firm they were hitting and releasing,” Koelbel said. “I didn’t want it to release too much, so I just didn’t take a big enough swing and just got a little under it and it just kind of flopped onto the green. I thought I had the putt, but it just broke a little at the end.

“Now, it wouldn’t have made that much of a difference, but at the time I thought it could have made a difference.”