Oklahoma State University Athletics
Cowboys Finish Second at NCAA Golf Championships
June 21, 1999 | Cowboy Golf
June 5, 1999
CHASKA, Minn. - Georgia's Ryuji Imada carded a 5-under 67 to lead Georgia to a three-shot team victory over Oklahoma State in Saturday's final round of the NCAA Men's Golf Championship.
OSU, which led the Bulldogs by five strokes heading into the final round, shot 16-over on the front nine and found itself 13 shots behind georgia. However, an early back-nine charge helped the Cowboys shoot three-under on the tougher side of the course, bringing the Cowboys back to within three strokes with four to play.
OSU finishes as the national runner-up for the 14th time in it's history; the Cowboys have finished in the top two at the national tournament 16 times in Mike Holder's 26 years as OSU's head coach. No other team has finished as the champion or runner-up more than five times during that span.
Sophomore Charles Howell finished at 3-over par for the tournament after a 1-over round Saturday. His fifth-place finish gives OSU its first top-10 individual showing at the NCAA Championships since Kris Tidland was the runner-up in 1995, OSU's last team championship season.
Junior Landry Mahan finished 16th at 11-over, junior Edward Loar was 39th at 14-over (Loar was 140th after one round), sophomore Peter Davidson was 47th at 16-over and freshman Anders Hultman was 57th at 18-over. Hultman's finish marked the fifth-best finish ever by OSU's fifth man in the national tournament, and it's the best since Jaxon Brigman was 45th in OSU's 1991 national title.
This year's tournament marked the Cowboy's 53rd consecutive appearance in the national championship event; Clemson currently has the second-longest streak at 18 years. One streak did end for the Cowboys, though: this marks the first time in Holder's tenure that OSU has gone more than four years without a national championship.
