SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Monday marked the end of a phenomenal 2021-22 season for the Ole Miss men’s golf team, as the team saw its postseason run come to a close with a 14th place finish at the 2022 NCAA Championships in Scottsdale.
Finishing with a four-day team score of 1177 (+57) over the weekend, the Rebels end their year having earned the program’s second-highest team finish at the NCAA Championships in 14th place. This comes just a day after the team’s miraculous jump up the leaderboard to make it above the third day cut line, marking just the second time in team history that Ole Miss has made the NCAA Championship cut.
Only the 1984-85 Rebels team, who ultimately finished fourth at the NCAA Championships hosted in Haines City, Florida, have put together a better postseason run in the program’s 73-year history. The Rebels end their NCAA Championships ranking in the top four in the field in total birdies on the week, sinking 54.
“Today certainly wasn’t the day that we were looking for, but we were in a tough spot after we had dug ourselves into a little bit of a hole yesterday. We had to play aggressively out of the gate and try to get something going early, and unfortunately it went the opposite way for us,” said head coach Chris Malloy. “They battled all day long and all the way to the finish, they made some good pars and then Jackson (Suber) finishing his college career with back-to-back birdies was just awesome.”
“For me, today told me everything that you need to know about this team. They fought, even when they didn’t have their best stuff, and earned the second-best finish in program history which just tells you what a special group of guys this is,” Malloy said. “We have a lot of them, in fact most of them, coming back next year. We learned some lessons today and throughout this week that will only benefit us next year. I think it’s tough for the future to be brighter for Ole Miss golf than it is right now.”
The Rebels were unable to advance to the tournament’s match play quarterfinals that are to be played on Tuesday, as only the top eight teams at the conclusion of stroke play clinched spots in the match play bracket. Monday’s final cut line would ultimately stand at 33-over par, with Texas Tech claiming the final spot in Tuesday’s NCAA Quarterfinals.
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