Oklahoma golf: Sooners 5th after 54 holes in NCAA Championship
By Chip Rouse
The men’s Oklahoma golf team shot a two-under-par score of 290 in the third round on Sunday and remained in the top five in the NCAA Men’s Golf Championship.
The defending national champion Sooners are at four-over 868 after 54 holes and in fifth place, well under the top-15 cutline, which determined the field for Monday’s fourth round of stroke play. After 54 holes, the 30-team field is sliced in half for the final round of stroke play.
The top eight teams at the conclusion of Monday’s round will move on to match-play team competition on Tuesday and Wednesday, the winner of which will be crowned national champions.
Senior Grant Hirschman led the Sooners on Sunday with a one-under round of 71 at the 7,460-yard Karsten Creek Golf Club in Stillwater, Oklahoma, home of the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the top-seed team in the championship. Hirschman’s round included five birdies. His 71 on Sunday represented a nice rebound from his 76-75 on the first two days of the championship.
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OU juniors Brad Dalke and Blaine Hale shot third-round scores of even-par 72.
Dalke and Hale are in an eight-way tie for 15th place on the individual leaderboard with identical scores of two-under 214 through 54 holes. Dalke’s third-round card included four birdies and two bogeys. Hale birdied two holes and bogeyed just once in Sunday’s round.
Duke leads the NCAA Men’s Golf Championship after 54 holes at 12-under-par, Oklahoma State is in second place at seven under, followed by Texas Tech (-3), Vanderbilt (+2), and Oklahoma.
You can see the entire team leaderboard by clicking here.
A year ago in the NCAA Championship, Oklahoma finished the 72-hole, stroke-play portion of the tournament in second place at one under par, 12 shots back of Vanderbilt. The Sooners then defeated Baylor, Illinois and defending national champion Oregon on the way to the program’s second national championship in men’s golf.