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Cowboys Set For NCAA Play In Stillwater
May 29, 2011 | Cowboy Golf
May 29, 2011
Cowboys Pursue 11th National Title On Home Track
Oklahoma State's men's golf team will be looking to win its 11th national title and second under head coach Mike McGraw when it begins play at the NCAA Championship on its home course this week. For the second time, Karsten Creek, the home of OSU golf, will serve as the host site for the NCAA Championships after previously holding the event in 2003. The Cowboys will enter play as the No. 1 seed and will be grouped with UCLA and Alabama for the first two rounds. OSU will begin its first round at 12:20 p.m. (CST) on the 10th tee on Tuesday. The Cowboys' second round will get underway at 7:00 a.m. on Wednesday on the first tee. Teams will be regrouped for the final round of stroke play on Thursday. The top eight teams will advance to the match play portion of the tournament, which will get underway Friday and conclude with Sunday's championship match. Live scoring for the event will be available at golfstat.com.
OSU In NCAA Play
OSU has won 10 NCAA titles and has produced eight individual national champions. The Cowboys last national title came in 2006, its first campaign under head coach Mike McGraw. That same year also resulted in OSU's most recent medalist in the event, Jonathan Moore. OSU's first NCAA crown came in 1963 under the guidance of Labron Harris. Former coach and current OSU athletics director Mike Holder captured eight titles, winning in 1976, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1995 and 2000. Earl Moeller was OSU's first individual champion in 1953 and was followed by Grier Jones in 1968. David Edwards won in 1978 and was followed by Scott Verplank, Brian Watts an E.J. Pfister, who won consecutively from 1986-88. Charles Howell won in record-setting fashion in 2000 and was the program's seventh national champion.
Championship Rewind ... 2010 NCAA Championship
The Cowboys came up just short in their Sunday showdown for the NCAA title, suffering a 3-1-1 loss to Augusta State in the championship match at The Honors Course. The Jaguars got on the board with a pair of key wins in the fourth and fifth matches, with Patrick Reed taking down Peter Uihlein, 4 and 2, and Henrik
Norlander posting a 5-and-4 win over Morgan Hoffmann, respectively. Sean Einhaus won his second match in three days with a 2-and-1 triumph over Carter Newman to get the Cowboys' first tally. The deciding match came between junior Kevin Tway and Mitch Krywulycz. Tway got out of the gate early, winning the first four holes and made the turn with a 4-up lead. Krywulycz used birdies at 13, 14 and 15 to draw even for the first time in the match. Both players parred the final three holes to go back to the first tee where Krywulycz clinched the match with a par on the 19th hole. Trent Whitekiller and Taylor Floyd were all square with two
holes remaining when their match was halted after the deciding point was recorded.
What 2 Watch 4
The Cowboys will ride a two-tournament winning streak into the national championship ... OSU has won six of its eight events this spring ... the Cowboys have produced the medalist at each of the last four events in which they have competed ... the Cowboys have had at least one individual finish in the top five in each of their 12 events thus far ... in 64 NCAA appearances, the Cowboys have finished first 10 times and second 16 times ... overall, OSU has finished in the top five in 50 of its 64 championship appearances ... junior Peter Uihlein enters play with six career wins and is one shy of tying Alan Bratton, Brian Watts and Kevin Wentworth for fourth on the school's all-time list ... OSU has won the last two events at Karsten Creek.
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