Georgia Tech is Runner-Up at The Goodwin – Men’s Golf — Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

San Francisco, Calif. – Christo Lamprecht shot 3-under-par 67 and Connor Howe added a 1-under-par 69, but 11^th-ranked Georgia Tech could not keep pace with No 13 Oklahoma on the back nine Saturday at TPC Harding Park and finished second to the Sooners at The Goodwin.

After finishing as a runner-up four times this year, including three this spring, the Yellow Jackets entered Saturday’s final round with a one-shot lead and battled neck and neck with the Sooners over the first nine holes. But Oklahoma pushed ahead at the turn and held its lead, and Tech dropped five shots on the final hole to finish six strokes back.

The Jackets return to action April 21-24 at the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship in Pinehurst, N.C.

TECH LINEUP – Lamprecht, a junior from George, South Africa, and Howe, a senior from Ogden, Utah, posted the Yellow Jackets’ only subpar rounds Saturday at TPC Harding Park, hampering Tech’s chances to keep pace with Oklahoma. Senior Bartley Forrester (Gainesville, Fla.) shot 1-over-par 71, while senior Ross Steelman (Columbia, Mo.) and freshman Hiroshi Tai (Singapore) each shot 4-over-par 74.

Lamprecht put together a strong finish with three birdies in his last four holes to shoot 67 and post a 7-under-par total of 203 for the tournament, good for second place. The junior from George, South Africa has three runner-up finishes this spring and six top-10 finishes, including one victory, for 2022-23. Howe posted a 3-under-par total of 207 for the 54 holes and tied for seventh place, his second top-10 in Tech’s last two events.

Steelman and Forrester tied for 11^th place at 209 (-1), while Tai tied for 88^th place at 219 (+9). Benjamin Reuter (Naarden, The Netherlands), competing as an individual, tied for 32^nd place at 212 (+2).

Connor Howe has finished in the top 10 in each of Tech’s last two tournaments. (photo by Ross Obley)

TEAM LEADERBOARD – Oklahoma had the day’s best round, a 6-under-par 274, behind a 5-under-par 65 from Patrick Welch and a 3-under-par 67 from tournament medalist Ben Lorenz. The Sooners finished the tournament at 18-under-par 822, six strokes clear of Georgia Tech, which compiled a 54-hole total of 828 (-12).

No. 8 Stanford, the tournament host, took third place at 1-under-par 839, followed by San Francisco at 841 (+1), with California and San Diego tying for fifth place at 842 (+2).

Southern California (846, +6), Oregon and Santa Clara (each at 847, +7) and Washington (849, +9) rounded out the…