Summit League Men's Golf Championship

[Old Titan]

If I'm not mistaken, this represents ORU's first conference tournament championship not involving baseball or men's basketball since the Golden Eagles returned to Summit League play in 2014.

Eleven seasons - that's quite a while! 

[Old Titan]

3 hours ago, Old Titan said:

Congrats to Coach Lance Watson and the men's golf team!  Hopefully they are assigned to a regional somewhere close - and dry.  

Bremerton (WA) Regional:  neither close, nor dry... 

[TrueBlue82]

The Golden Eagle victory at the Summit League Golf Tournament was not unexpected, as ORU was a slight favorite going into the tournament amongst the 11 team field (all nine Summit schools compete in Men's Golf, along with Northern Colorado and Weber State). But, HOW they won the tournament is quite an epic story. 

SDSU led the tourney after both day one and day two's 18 holes of play, and still had a significant five stroke lead over ORU in the final round after 45 total holes, with nine holes remaining. NDSU was lurking one stroke behind ORU, with USD another five strokes back, the only other team under par for the tournament. Two holes later, the lead was completely gone, with three teams now within one stroke. ORU took the lead for the first time in the tournament on hole #12, and never lost that lead over the final six holes. After 14 holes, the field had tightened, with four teams within four strokes, with only four holes to play in the championship. ORU had a slim two stroke lead headed to the final hole, and ended the tournament with an exclamation point, scoring two birdies on hole #18. Pretty impressive performance by the boys in Navy and Vegas, making a huge comeback and then finishing strong during crunch time!

Summit Golf - Final Nine Holes

 

	after 9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Final
SDSU	-13	-10	-6	-5	-6	-5	-6	-3	-2	-3
ORU	-8	-8	-6	-7	-7	-6	-10	-10	-10	-12
NDSU	-7	-6	-5	-6	-6	-4	-7	-7	-8	-8
USD	-2	-2	-2	-1	-2	-2	-4	-4	-4	-5

 

[jmg1984]

5 hours ago, TrueBlue82 said:

The Golden Eagle victory at the Summit League Golf Tournament was not unexpected, as ORU was a slight favorite going into the tournament amongst the 11 team field (all nine Summit schools compete in Men's Golf, along with Northern Colorado and Weber State). But, HOW they won the tournament is quite an epic story. 

SDSU led the tourney after both day one and day two's 18 holes of play, and still had a significant five stroke lead over ORU in the final round after 45 total holes, with nine holes remaining. NDSU was lurking one stroke behind ORU, with USD another five strokes back, the only other team under par for the tournament. Two holes later, the lead was completely gone, with three teams now within one stroke. ORU took the lead for the first time in the tournament on hole #12, and never lost that lead over the final six holes. After 14 holes, the field had tightened, with four teams within four strokes, with only four holes to play in the championship. ORU had a slim two stroke lead headed to the final hole, and ended the tournament with an exclamation point, scoring two birdies on hole #18. Pretty impressive performance by the boys in Navy and Vegas, making a huge comeback and then finishing strong during crunch time!

Summit Golf - Final Nine Holes

 

	after 9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Final
SDSU	-13	-10	-6	-5	-6	-5	-6	-3	-2	-3
ORU	-8	-8	-6	-7	-7	-6	-10	-10	-10	-12
NDSU	-7	-6	-5	-6	-6	-4	-7	-7	-8	-8
USD	-2	-2	-2	-1	-2	-2	-4	-4	-4	-5

 

Nice comeback!!