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USA Today
10-02-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Numerous scoring records fall at Amer Ari Invitational, where Oklahoma State wins team title
Oklahoma State is one of the best programs in the history of men's college golf, and the Cowboys did something at the Amer Ari Invitational that no past team was able to achieve. OSU set a new program scoring record, reaching 64-under 800 after 54 holes, to win the Amer Ari at Mauna Lani Resort. OSU's previous mark of 63-under 801 came at the 2005 Waikoloa Intercollegiate, now known as the Amer Ari. The Cowboys opened this week with a program-best 24-under 262 on Thursday, setting a low mark for single-round team score. Ninth-ranked OSU beat No. 6 North Carolina by five shots. No. 5 Texas came in third at 56 under, while No. 3 Auburn, the defending national champions, was fourth at 53 under. The records don't stop with Oklahoma State. Tommy Morrison, a junior at Texas, beat UNC's Hampton Roberts to win the individual title on the first playoff hole. Morrison, who finished stroke play at 21 under, shot a career-best 9-under 63 in the final round to get into the playoff. Texas set a school record for low 54-hole score at 808. The previous mark was 813 (39 under) at the 2018 NCAA Raleigh Regional. The Longhorns also marked a program record for low 54-hole total vs. par at 56 under. The previous record was 50 under at the 2022 Augusta Haskins Award Invitational. The records don't stop there. Roberts, the runner-up after matching Morrison at 21-under 195, broke the previous UNC record for fewest strokes in a tournament, which were 197 by Ben Griffin in the Tar Heel Intercollegiate in 2017 and Austin Greaser in the 2024 NCAA Chapel Hill Regional. Roberts also set the school record for lowest score to par. Griffin held the previous record for most strokes below par at 19 under. In the second round, Roberts tied a school record signing for an 11-under 61. But wait, there's more. Auburn senior Carson Bacha set a new program record for tournament score at 18-under 198. He finished solo third, three shots behind Morrison and Roberts, in the individual race. Oregon, which finished fifth, reached 48-under 818, which marked the lowest score to par and the third-lowest 54-hole total in program history. The Amer Ari is often known as a birdie barrage, but this year, teams and players took it to a different level.
NBC Sports
09-02-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Amer Ari again a birdie-fest as OSU wins, Tommy Morrison takes playoff 30 years after Tiger's loss
The Amer Ari Invitational is traditionally a shootout, and this year's edition did not disappoint. Oklahoma State raced ahead with a 26-under first round before eventually wrapping up its second straight team win – and first of the spring – at 64 under, five shots better than runner-up North Carolina, on Saturday at Mauna Lani Resort's North Course in Waimea, Hawaii. Four Cowboys finished in double-digits under par, led by Ethan Fang, who tied for third individually at 18 under, three shots out of a playoff. North Carolina sophomore Hampton Roberts had never finished better than T-12 in a college event prior to forcing extra holes with Texas junior Tommy Morrison, a 6-foot-9 standout who likely will represent the U.S. in the Walker Cup this September. Roberts fired the round of the tournament on Friday, an 11-under 61, but it was Morrison who charge in the final round, birdieing eight of his first 11 holes before a bogey at No. 12. He birdied twice more coming in to post 63. Then on the first playoff hole, Morrison birdied again to pick up his first college title. A BIRDIE FOR THE WIN 👏@T_morrison_88 birdies the playoff round at hole 18 to earn his FIRST COLLEGIATE WIN! 🤘#HookEm | #TakeDeadAim At No. 11 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking entering this week, Morrison is poised to vault into the top 10 for the first time in his career. His best college finish before Saturday was a runner-up last fall at the Folds of Honor Collegiate. His last victory of any kind came just last summer at the European Amateur, which led to him making the cut at The Open at Royal Troon. Morrison joins a list of past Amer Ari champions that includes Matt Kuchar, Anthony Kim, Nick Taylor and Aaron Wise. Roberts is still in good company, though, as 30 years ago, Tiger Woods lost the Amer Ari in a playoff to Arizona State's Chris Hanell. Patrick Cantlay and Jordan Spieth have also lost this tournament in sudden death; Cantlay's went seven extra holes before Oregon's Daniel Miernicki won. Texas was third as a team, while Auburn placed fourth without standouts Brendan Valdes and Josiah Gilbert in the lineup. Arizona State, ranked tops in this field at No. 2 nationally, fell three spots on the final day to eighth. In total, 34 players shot 10 under or better.
NBC Sports
05-02-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Defending NCAA champ Auburn without two stars for heavyweight battle in Hawaii
The defending NCAA champions will look a little different when they begin their spring season in Hawaii. The Auburn Tigers, who beat Florida State in last year's NCAA final to capture the program's first national championship, won't have star players Brendan Valdes and Josiah Gilbert in the starting lineup – or on the travel roster for that matter – for the upcoming Amer Ari Invitational, which starts Thursday at Mauna Lani Resort in Waimea. Valdes, a first-team All-American last season and currently the 25th-ranked individual in the country, underwent a minor surgery in November, according to Auburn head coach Nick Clinard, and isn't expected back until later this month. Gilbert, Auburn's top-ranked player in the fall at No. 8 nationally, didn't qualify for the starting five or the lone individual spot. 'You have to earn everything in life, that's the message to the team,' Clinard added. Auburn, ranked third as a team, will start reigning Haskins Award winner Jackson Koivun alongside Carson Bacha, Cayden Pope, Ryan Eshleman and Reed Lotter. Billy Davis will be the indy. Also in the field is No. 2 Arizona State, which is down U.S. Amateur champion Josele Ballester, who is teeing it up in this week's WM Phoenix Open instead. No. 5 Texas, No. 6 North Carolina, No. 9 Oklahoma State, No. 12 Georgia Tech, No. 13 UCLA, No. 17 Pepperdine and No. 22 Texas Tech are the other top-25 programs in the field, which since its inaugural event in 1992 has been one of the toughest of the regular season. Past individual winners of the Amer Ari include Georgia Tech's Matt Kuchar (twice), Oklahoma's Anthony Kim, Washington's C.T. Pan, Oregon's Aaron Wise and Oklahoma State's Matthew Wolff.
