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Cowboys Set For NCAA Action At Prairie Dunes
May 22, 2014 | Cowboy Golf
May 22, 2014
Cowboys Pursue 11th National Title At Prairie Dunes
Oklahoma State will seek its 11th NCAA title when play gets underway at the NCAA Championship at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kan. The event will run May 23-28 and will consist of 54 holes of stroke play to determine the eight teams for the match play portion of the tournament. Following three rounds, the top 40 individuals and ties will play an additional 18 holes on Monday to determine the individual champion. Match play will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday. OSU will be the No. 2 seed and will be grouped with No. 1 seed Alabama and third-seeded Stanford. The trio will tee off Friday at 12:20 p.m. The three teams will begin second-round action on Saturday at 7:00 a.m. Live scoring will be available at golfstat.com. Golf Channel will televise the action Monday-Wednesday from 4-7 p.m. (CST) each day.
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 under the direction of Mike McGraw. That same year also resulted in OSU's most recent medalist at the event in 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.
NCAA Rewind ... 2013 NCAA Championship
The Cowboys used a closing 275 during their third round at the NCAA Championship to move up 11 spots into a tie for 14th place at Capital City Club's Crabapple Course. OSU's 5-under score tied for the second-lowest tally of the day in the 30-team field and vaulted them into a tie with Texas Tech at 7-over 847. California won the stroke play portion of the event with a 16-under total of 824 at the par-70, 7,319-yard layout. Cal's Max Homa captured medalist honors after firing a 66 during his final round to finish at 9-under 201. His total gave him a three-shot cushion over six players. Ian Davis led OSU's starting five, carding a 68 during his final round to move up eight spots into a tie for eighth place at 5-under 205.
Tap-Ins
· OSU's first four victories this season came consecutively. The four-tournament winning streak marked the fifth time the Cowboys have won four in a row in program history and is tied for sixth on the school's all-time list of winning streaks. It was also OSU's longest string since reeling off five victories in a row in 1994-95.
· OSU's regional victory marked the 28th time in the last 38 years it has won at least five times in a season.
· Talor Gooch enters the event with a string of five consecutive top 10s after tying for second place at the NCAA Columbia Regional. OSU's starting five has a combined 28 top-10 finishes this season.
· The Cowboys have competed at the NCAA Championship in 67 of the program's 68 years, including an NCAA-record string of 65 consecutive appearances from 1947-2011.
· Six of OSU's nine Big 12 titles have come at Prairie Dunes (1997, 1998, 2000, 2007, 2009 and 2011).
· OSU also won Big Eight titles at the Perry Maxwell design in 1987, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996.
· Head coach Alan Bratton finished first in 1992, fourth in 1993, second in 1994 and first in 1995 at Prairie Dunes at the conference tourney. Assistant coach Brian Guetz finished third in 1996 and 13th in 1997.
