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The Thunderbird Collegiate
Sooners Tie School Record WIth Fifth Win of Year
April 16, 2022 | Men's Golf
TEMPE, Ariz. — Powered by a comeback in Saturday's final round, the top-ranked Oklahoma men's golf won the Thunderbird Collegiate by five strokes and clinched a school-record tying fifth win of the regular season.
The No. 1 Sooners (1, -31) used a field-low 270 (-14) in the final round of the 54-hole event held annually at Papago Golf Club to erase a four-shot deficit and hold off No. 4 Arizona State, No. 7 Texas Tech and No. 2 Oklahoma State. Four Sooners grabbed top-15 finishes in the win, joining the 1989, 2018, 2021 Sooner squads atop the history books.
"Just a great team win," head coach Ryan Hybl said. "Everyone pitched in this week and we felt good as an entire squad all week long. It's very difficult to come to someone else's home course and beat them. We're fortunate to have been able to get the job done against some really good teams."
Oklahoma entered the day two back of the Sun Devils, who enjoyed the comforts of their home course all weekend. The ASU lead grew to four on the front nine before the Sooners stormed back around the turn as All-Americans Chris Gotterup and Logan McAllister found birdies on No. 9 to turn the tide and power OU to the top of the leaderboard. The entire Crimson and Cream lineup turned it into high gear on the back nine, firing four birdies without a bogey over the next five holes to extend the lead to five strokes. A late charge from the Sun Devils was fended off by Gotterup and McAllister, who both birdied No. 16 to clinch the victory.
Gotterup (T4, -11) fired the second-lowest round of the day Saturday, signing for a 65 (-6) with eight birdies at the par-71, 7,317-yard course. The redshirt senior finished his week at 11-under par to grab his fifth top-five finish of the season as he makes his case to win both the Ben Hogan and Haskins award.
McAllister (T9, -8) joined Gotterup inside the top-10 as the nation's best one-two punch continued to elevate OU to the top. The Oklahoma City product, who joined Gotterup on the national watch lists this week, used three rounds in the 60s, including a 68 (-3) Saturday, to share ninth at the event and collect his fourth top-10 finish of the season. The senior signed for a clean card with three birdies in the final round.
Redshirt freshman Stephen Campbell Jr. (16, -4) closed his weekend with back-to-back 69s (-3) to move into the top 20 and claim solo 16th at the tournament. The Richmond, Texas, product poured in back-to-back birdies to open his round and then again on Nos. 14 and 15 to extend the OU lead.
Rounding out the Sooners inside the top 20 was true freshman Drew Goodman (T17, -3), who fired a 73 (+2) in the final round, but his opening-day pair of 68s (-3) kept him in the top 20. The Norman product, who is ranked as the No. 5 freshman in the country, ends his regular season with seven top-20 placements in 10 events behind 10 rounds in the 60s.
Patrick Welch (T53, +4) was critical in the comeback Saturday. After firing a 73 (+2) and 76 (+5) on Friday, the senior bounced back in the final round with a counting score of 68 (-3) to help propel OU to the title. The Aliso Viejo, Calif., product used a field-high 40 pars to steady his rounds.
The Sooners led the field on par 4s for the week, firing an astonishing 20-under par on such holes, six shots better than Texas Tech. Hybl's team sunk a field-high 177 pars while posting 60 birdies, suitable for second-most in the field.
No. 1 Oklahoma's regular season featured wins at the Maridoe Collegiate and East Lake Cup in the fall, followed by wins in Puerto Rico, the Southern Highlands Collegiate and Thunderbird Collegiate in the spring. Although the five wins only ties the 2018 and 2021 teams, the 2022 squad reached five victories in just eight countable events, four and five fewer than its co-record holders. Hybl, now in his 12th year in Norman, has 34 career wins in his career with 10 coming in the last two seasons. This year's team is in line to shatter the program's scoring record vs. par and entered the week at -7.47 vs. par on the season, more than a half stroke better than the previous record. The spring has been one to remember for the Sooners as they've posted 25-under par or better in four of their five tournaments, including a school-record 59-under at the Puerto Rico Classic in February.
The Sooners now turn their attention to the Big 12 Championship, slated for April 25-27 at Whispering Pines Golf Club in Trinity, Texas. Oklahoma will square off with some of the nation's best in No. 2 Oklahoma State, No. 7 Texas Tech and No. 9 Texas, as well as five other top-80 teams in the country.
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