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Sooners Claim Bedlam to Win East Lake Cup

October 27, 2021 | Men's Golf

ATLANTA – The top-ranked Oklahoma men's golf team took down Oklahoma State 3-2 in the championship match of the East Lake Cup on Wednesday.
 
The win marks the first time Ryan Hybl's group captured the cup in the Sooners' third trip to East Lake Golf Club.
 
"I'm just excited for the guys" said Hybl. "I mean, the ebb and flow of match play is so unique. If you're looking at a computer screen, at one point we were just dead in the water…So just really, really excited about the guys having that moment at the end of the day. You know, it's nice to get a little in-state rivalry, too, so that's a little icing on the cake."

All three Oklahoma points were clinched on East Lake Golf Club's iconic par-3 15th hole.
 
Logan McAllister put the Sooners on the board with an early 5&3 victory. McAllister never trailed in the match and was 5-up after the first nine holes.
 
"I struck the ball really well today," McAllister said. "I was in play off the tee pretty much every hole and I was pretty much on the green. Out here if you can hit 16 greens, you're probably going to do pretty well, and I did a great job of hitting fairways and hitting greens and just keeping the pressure on him the whole time."
 
A few minutes later, Jaxon Dowell notched the second point with a gritty come-from-behind win. Dowell was 2-down heading to the 16th hole and ultimately tied the match. A missed putt from OSU's senior All-American Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra sent the match into a playoff on the 15th. Dowell's tee shot found the green, while the Cowboy was in the bunker - a par would be all Dowell needed to claim the match, giving OU its second point. 
 
The Sooners trailed in two other matches as all eyes shifted to the anchor match featuring Monday's co-medalist Chris Gotterup. Tied through 10 holes, the OU senior got hot and won four of the next five holes to win his match 4&3 and deliver the East Lake Cup trophy to the nation's No. 1 team. 
 
"I'm just really happy," Gotterup said. "You know, it's been our goal to come here and play well. Obviously there's been a little bit of a stigma against us in match play and we know what we've got and I think we showed that today. We're really happy to get this win."
 
The title marks OU's second Bedlam match-play win in three weeks and closes the fall slate. The East Lake Cup is Oklahoma's second win of the fall, a stretch where the Sooners never finished worse than second place in a stroke-play event. 
 

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