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Thursday, February 28, 2019

Suh shows why he's No. 1 in leading Southern Cal to team title in Southwestern Invitational


   You’re the No. 1 player on the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) and you have a 12-footer for birdie on the 18th hole to give your team the victory. You’ve already got the individual championship wrapped up. So, you bury it, right?
   That’s exactly what Southern California’s Justin Suh, a senior from San Jose, Calif., did Tuesday to lift the Trojans, No. 6 in the latest Golfstat rankings, to a one-shot victory over Pac-12 rival California in the  Southwestern Invitational at the North Ranch Country Club in Westlake Village, Calif.
   It was the third tournament win of the 2018-’19 season for Southern Cal, the reigning Pac-12 champion. The Trojans were 30-under par in The Amer Ari Invitational in Hawaii to open the spring portion of their season, but that was only good enough to finish tied for fourth against a loaded field.
   Suh’s birdie conversion at the last gave the reigning Pac-12 champion a third straight 4-under-par 68 over the 6,992-yard, par-72 Lakes and Oaks nines at North Ranch for a 12-under 204 total that was four shots better than runnerup Clay Feagler, a junior at Pepperdine out of Laguna Niguel, Calif.
   Southern Cal had carded rounds of 4-under 284 and 3-under 285 in Monday’s double-round to take a five-shot lead into the final round. Not everybody completed both rounds when darkness fell Monday and those who didn't had to return to finish their second round Tuesday morning.
   No. 15 California and No. 35 UCLA caught and passed the Trojans before they battled back. Kaito Onishi, a sophomore from Bradenton, Fla., birdied the 18th to draw Southern Cal even with California and set the stage for Suh’s heroics. The Golfstat rankings have changed since the completion of the Southwestern Invitational, so I went with the latest rankings.
   Suh’s birdie putt gave the Trojans a 3-over 291 in the final round and a 4-under 860 total. California closed with a 5-under 283, the low team round of the tournament, to finish a shot behind Southern Cal at 3-under 861.
   Southern Cal’s cross-town rival UCLA was another four shots behind California in third at 1-over 865. The Bruins opened with a 2-under 286 and matched par with a 288 in the afternoon round Monday before closing with a 3-over 291.
   Tournament host Pepperdine, ranked 13th, was another four shots behind UCLA in fourth at 5-over 869 after closing strong with a 3-under 285.
   No. 25 Tennessee took a western road trip and finished fifth, eight shots behind Pepperdine at 13-over 877. The Volunteers, out of the Southeastern Conference, finished up with an 8-over 296.
   No. 59 San Jose State carded a solid 1-over 289 in the final round to finish a shot behind Tennessee in sixth in the 12-team field at 14-over 878.
   Onishi backed up Suh for Southern Cal, finishing among the group tied for 10th at even-par 216 even though his closing birdie only gave him a final round of 3-over 75. Onishi’s opening round of 3-under 69 had helped the Trojans start fast.
   Kyle Suppa, a junior from Honolulu, had a clutch 1-under 71 in the final round to finish alone in 19th place at 3-over 219.
   Sam Kim, a senior from Irvine, Calif., and Issei Tanabe, a sophomore from Huntingdon Beach, Calif., both landed among the group tied for 38th at 9-over 225. Kim finished up with a 5-over 77. Tanabe, whose final-round 79 was a throw-out, had opened with an even-par 72.
   Competing as an individual, Charlie Reiter, a freshman from Palm Desert, Calif., made his case for a spot in the first five as he finished among the group tied for 32nd at 7-over 223. His final-round 74 would have been a counter.
   When the second round was finally complete, it was Pepperdine’s Feagler who was the individual leader as he fired a sparkling 6-under 66 in the second round that left him a shot ahead of Suh at 9-under 135. He backed off in the final round with a 1-over 73 that left him four shots behind Suh in second at 8-under 208.
   You can’t feel too bad when you finish in between No. 1 and No. 2 in the WAGR. No. 2 would be California’s Collin Morikawa, a senior from La Canada Flintridge, Calif. who went 4-0 in the 2017 Walker Cup Match at Los Angeles Country Club to help the United States roll to a 19-7 victory over Great Britain & Ireland.
   Morikawa had a pair of 2-under 70s in Monday’s double-round and closed with a 1-under 71 to finish alone in third, three shots behind Feagler at 5-under 211.
   Two of Morikawa’s teammates, Sebastian Crampton, a redshirt senior from Pacific Grove, Calif., and Kaiwen Liu, a sophomore from San Diego, finished among a group of five players tied for fourth at 3-under 213, two shots behind Morikawa.
   Unfortunately for the Golden Bears, Liu was competing as an individual. But that’s what all these tournaments are for, to figure out your best six for the Pac-12 Championship and your best five for the rest of the postseason.
   Crampton and Liu each closed with a 3-under 69 to get it to 3-under for the tournament.
   Rounding out the quintet at 3-under were UCLA’s Sean Maruyama, a freshman from Encino, Calif., Loyola Marymount’s Gavin Cohen, a senior from Tucson, Ariz., and San Jose State’s Kevin Velo, a senior from Danville, Calif.
   Maruyama ripped off the low round of the tournament, a scintillating 7-under 65, in the second round, but closed with a 3-over 75. He had opened with a 1-over 73. Cohen got it going in the second round as well with a 4-under 68 before closing with an even-par 72. Velo struggled in the second round with a 3-over 75, but surrounded that with an opening round of 3-under 69 and a final round of 4-under 68.



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