PALO ALTO, Calif. — The University of Colorado men’s golf team took a quick lead here Sunday but could not hold off a charging Stanford team and eventually settled for a tie for third place as the 63rd annual Pac-12 Championship came to a close.
No. 9 and the host Cardinal pulled away from the field early; entering the round tied for third and two strokes behind No. 57 Colorado and No. 37 Washington, familiarity with the home course finally paid off for them, as it was 5-under on the front nine, while the Buffs were 6-over and the Huskies 8-over. In the end, Stanford was the only team under par in the final round (a 4-under 346) and finished with a 19-under score of 1,381.
No. 4 Arizona State clung on to second with a 1,394 score, while the Buffaloes and Washington State tied for third with 1,395 totals. No. 22 Oregon and No. 37 and defending champion Washington tied for fifth at 1,397, on the back end of just four strokes separating five teams.
It was still CU’s second-best finish in 11 Pac-12 championship meets, as only a second place effort in 2018 topped this weekend’s performance.
The scores were higher the last two rounds, when the winds picked up a bit; on Sunday, they were gusting at times from 15-to-20 miles per hour. As a result, the final round’s stroke average was over three strokes higher than in the second round, and of the 195 double bogeys or worse scored here, 74 took place on Sunday. Colorado wound up with the second fewest of those here with just 10, one behind Washington (the home team even had 16, six on Sunday, one more than CU and UW).
Sophomore Dylan McDermott finished second after firing a 2-under 68 for a 13-under 267 scorecard, which was two back of Stanford’s Michael Thorbjornsen, who also closed with a 68 and a 15-under 265 total on the 6,727-yard, par-70 Stanford Golf Club course layout. In scoring in the 60s all four rounds, he became just the third Buffalo to accomplish the feat, with the 13-under effort tying the school best in relation to par in a tournament on any course configuration, including the best-ever on a par-70 design.
McDermott led the field in par-4 scoring at 10-under par, three better than his Stanford counterpart; he tied for fifth in birdies with 18, two back of Thorbjornsen. He also had an eagle and 46 pars with just seven bogeys all weekend. From midway in the second round until early in the fourth, he posted a team season-best 30 straight holes of par or betterm a…
No. 9 and the host Cardinal pulled away from the field early; entering the round tied for third and two strokes behind No. 57 Colorado and No. 37 Washington, familiarity with the home course finally paid off for them, as it was 5-under on the front nine, while the Buffs were 6-over and the Huskies 8-over. In the end, Stanford was the only team under par in the final round (a 4-under 346) and finished with a 19-under score of 1,381.
No. 4 Arizona State clung on to second with a 1,394 score, while the Buffaloes and Washington State tied for third with 1,395 totals. No. 22 Oregon and No. 37 and defending champion Washington tied for fifth at 1,397, on the back end of just four strokes separating five teams.
It was still CU’s second-best finish in 11 Pac-12 championship meets, as only a second place effort in 2018 topped this weekend’s performance.
The scores were higher the last two rounds, when the winds picked up a bit; on Sunday, they were gusting at times from 15-to-20 miles per hour. As a result, the final round’s stroke average was over three strokes higher than in the second round, and of the 195 double bogeys or worse scored here, 74 took place on Sunday. Colorado wound up with the second fewest of those here with just 10, one behind Washington (the home team even had 16, six on Sunday, one more than CU and UW).
Sophomore Dylan McDermott finished second after firing a 2-under 68 for a 13-under 267 scorecard, which was two back of Stanford’s Michael Thorbjornsen, who also closed with a 68 and a 15-under 265 total on the 6,727-yard, par-70 Stanford Golf Club course layout. In scoring in the 60s all four rounds, he became just the third Buffalo to accomplish the feat, with the 13-under effort tying the school best in relation to par in a tournament on any course configuration, including the best-ever on a par-70 design.
McDermott led the field in par-4 scoring at 10-under par, three better than his Stanford counterpart; he tied for fifth in birdies with 18, two back of Thorbjornsen. He also had an eagle and 46 pars with just seven bogeys all weekend. From midway in the second round until early in the fourth, he posted a team season-best 30 straight holes of par or betterm a…
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