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NCAA MEN'S GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS
at Kampen Course, West Lafayette, Ind.
7,450 yards, par 72
Medalist: Kevin Chappell, UCLA (2-under 286).
Team champion: UCLA (42-over 1194).
UW team finish: 18-over-par 306. The Huskies finished the tournament at 56-over 1208, seventh alone out of 30 schools. In fact, four Pacific-10 Conference schools placed in the top seven.
UW individuals:
Nick Taylor (75)
Zach Bixler (76)
Darren Wallace (77)
Tze Huang Choo (78)
* John Wise (85)
On a day when scoring was high again, Taylor's 75 placed him in second with Indiana's Jorge Campillo (72). It is the UW's best finish at the NCAAs since James Lepp won the 2005 title over Tacoma's Michael Putnam (Pepperdine) in a playoff. Other Huskies include Bixler (303, tied for 23rd), Choo (310, tied for 55th), Wallace (313, tied for 64th) and Wise (323, 78th).
Tournament recap: The Huskies' final-round 306 was sixth-best of the day, and it moved them up to two spots. Not bad for a school that made just four birdies among a group of five golfers, denoting a lot of pars were made instead. … UCLA's Kevin Chappell made a 4-foot par putt on the final hole to not only win the individual title by three strokes (2-under 286), it gave the Bruins a one-shot team victory over defending NCAA champion Stanford. … Clemson's Kyle Stanley, the Gig Harbor product, carded an 82 Saturday, and placed tied for seventh.
Taylor's comments: "I was proud of how I played. I didn't think I'd be that close to Kevin (Chappell) in the end, but I played really well today, and I'm happy with the way I finished."
UW coach Matt Thurmond's comments: "Today was the toughest of all the rounds from the conditions. The first round was really tough, too, but today, all the long par-4s were in crosswinds. Almost no holes were into the wind, or downwind, so it was just really difficult out there. We never had anything great going … it's damage control, and hanging in there after bad holes."
Hole of the day: The par-5 10th played the third-most difficult par-5 on the course (and 12th-most difficult hole of the round), but birdies by Wallace and Choo allowed the UW to shoot 2-under on the hole for the day.
* Wise's round did not count toward team total.
