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Monday, April 30, 2018

Suh cruises to individual title and leads Southern Cal to team crown in Pac-12 Championship


   With Justin Suh, a junior from San Jose, Calif., setting a sizzling pace on his way to a four-shot victory in the individual chase, Southern California, No. 19 in the latest Golfstat rankings, held off a charge by No. 43 Colorado to take the team title in the Pac-12 Championship, which concluded Wednesday at Rolling HIills Country Club on Rolling Hills Estates, Calif.
   There’s a lot going on at a Pac-12 Championship, including a format that really tests teams’ depth with five scores counting from six-man teams as opposed to the usual four scores counting from five players. And even though Rolling Hills isn’t far from the Los Angeles-based schools like Southern Cal and UCLA, it has been completely redone and was pretty much a blank canvas until teams got on the course for practice rounds.
   None of which seemed to concern the talented Suh, who started off in a Monday double-round with a 3-under-par 68 over the 7,155-yard, par-71 Rolling Hills layout followed by a scintillating 7-under 64. Suh, the No. 6 player in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR), kept piling it on with a 6-under 65 in Tuesday’s third round before finally cooling off with an even-par 71 in Wednesday’s final round for a 16-under 208 total.
   The Trojans opened with an 8-under 347 and, with Kaito Onishi, a freshman from Bradenton, Fla. matching Suh’s 64, erupted for a 15-under 340 in the afternoon round of the opening day to take control of the team race. They finished it off with a pair of 4-under 351 rounds that enabled them to finish with a 31-under 1,389 total. It was Southern Cal’s 20th Pac-12 team title, but its first since 2011.
   Colorado was also under par in each round, opening with a 7-under 348, adding a 4-under 351 Monday afternoon and an 8-under 347 in Tuesday’s third round before finishing up with another 8-under 347 for a 27-under 1,393 total. The runnerup finish was the best Colorado has posted in a Pac-12 Championship, but the Buffs could never quite catch up to Southern Cal.
   No. 21 Arizona State, which came on strong after an opening round of 8-over 363, took third at 23-under 1,397, No. 18 Stanford was fourth at 19-under 1,401 and No. 9 California, the highest-ranked Pac-12 team in the Golfstat rankings, finished fifth at 16-under 1,404.
   Defending champion Oregon, ranked 30th, finished 11th of 12 teams at 15-over 1,435. The Ducks have played on the final day of the Division I season in each of the last two years, winning the national championship on their home track at Eugene Country Club two years ago and falling to Oklahoma in the Final Match last spring at Rich Harvest Farms.
   Of course, Suh didn’t bring the team title home all by himself. He had plenty of support from his youthful teammates, led by Onishi and Cheng Jin, a sophomore from China, both of whom landed in the group tied  for 13th at 4-under 280.
   Onishi struggled in the opening round with a 4-over 75 before matching Suh with a remarkable 7-under 64 of his own in Monday afternoon’s second round. Jin opened with a 3-under 68 and was steady the rest of the way, matching par in the second and third rounds before finishing up with a 1-under 70.
   Ryan Slater, a redshirt sophomore from Gilroy, Calif., also posted a top-20 finish as he ended up in the group tied for 19th at 2-under 282. Slater was particularly tough in the double-round on the first day of the tournament, posting a pair of 2-under 69s.
   Issei Tanabe, a freshman from Huntingdon Beach, Calif., picked up the team with a final-round 67 that was the Trojans’ best score of the day and had a lot to do with Southern Cal holding off Colorado.
   Kyle Suppa, a sophomore from Honolulu, Hawaii, rounded out the Southern Cal lineup, finishing with the group tied for 58th at 8-over 292. But Suppa’s pair of opening-day 1-over 72s were both crucial counters.
   The depth of individual talent in the Pac-12 was on display among the top finishers in the individual standings behind Suh.
   Colorado was led by two of the four players who finished tied for second, four shots behind Suh at 12-under 272. Ross Macdonald, a sophomore from Castle Rock, Colo., had four rounds in the 60s, a pair of 2-under 69s in the opening-day double-round and a pair of 4-under 67s in the final two rounds that sparked the late surge by the Buffaloes. Yannik Paul, a senior from Germany, was also never out of the 60s, carding rounds of 68 and 69 in the opening-day double-round, adding another 68 in Tuesday’s third round and matching Macdonald’s final-round 67.
   Rounding out the foursome at 12-under 272 were Washington’s Carl Yuan, a junior from Orlando, Fla., and Arizona’s George Cunningham, a senior from Tucson, Ariz. Yuan started and finished with rounds of 4-under 67 while Cunningham followed up a pair of 67s in the opening-day double-round with a pair of 69s in third and fourth rounds.
   Arizona State’s Koichiro Ishika, a freshman from Japan, made quite a splash in his Pac-12 Championship debut, finishing alone in sixth place at 11-under 273 with four rounds in the 60s, highlighted by a 5-under 66 in Tuesday’s third round.
   California’s Collin Morikawa, a junior from La Canada Flintridge, Calif. and the No. 2 player in the WAGR, is a very familiar figure at the Pac-12 Championship. And Morikawa, one of three U.S. players who went 4-0 in 19-7 victory over Great Britain & Ireland in the Walker Cup Match at Los Angeles Country Club last summer, finished with a flourish, a 5-under 66 that left him alone in seventh at 10-under 274.
   If he gets there, and it’s likely he will, Morikawa will be one of the top contenders for an NCAA individual title at Karsten Creek Golf Club.
   Stanford’s Jeffery Swegle, a senior from West Des Moines, Iowa, and Washington State’s Zach Anderson, a senior from Canada, finished tied for eighth at 9-under 275.
   Swegle actually matched Suh’s blazing opening day with rounds of 67 and 65 that gave him a share of the 36-hole lead with Suh at 10-under 132. He cooled off with a 3-over 74 in the third round before finishing up with a 2-under 69. Anderson also had a 6-under 65 on his ledger in the third round. He finished up with a 1-under 70.






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