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Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Michael La Sasso wins NCAA title and earns a place in Masters and U.S. Open
CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) — Ole Miss junior Michael La Sasso overcame a pair of double bogeys with a pair of birdies on his back nine Monday that carried him to an even-par 72 to the win the NCAA men's title and help send the Rebels into the team portion of the championship. La Sasso finished at 11-under 277 for a two-shot victory over Phichaksn Miachon of Texas A&M, making him only the second Ole Miss golfer to win an NCAA title. Advertisement The victory sends the 21-year-old La Sasso to Oakmont in two weeks for the U.S. Open, and to the Masters next April. He was equally excited for Ole Miss, which nabbed the eighth and final spot that advance to match play the next two days at La Costa Resort. The Rebels finished one shot ahead of Florida State, a tough ending for Luke Clanton's college career. Clanton, who has had two runner-up finishes on the PGA Tour and has earned a tour card through the PGA Tour University ranking for underclassmen, struggled down the stretch with two bogeys. He missed a birdie chance on his final hole and closed with a 76 as the Seminoles finished at No. 9. La Sasso entered the final day with a two-shot lead and started on No. 10. He birdied the opening two holes to restore his lead over Miachon and then ran into trouble with double bogeys on Nos. 15 and 17. Advertisement But he kept a clean card the rest of the way and Miachon, who also birdied his opening two holes. Miachon didn't make another birdie and finished with a 72. 'I had a little rough patch in the middle of the round, and being able to bounce back from that is something truly special,' La Sasso said. Clanton, the No. 1 amateur in the world, is to make his pro debut next week in the RBC Canadian Open. Arizona State took the No. 1 seed over defending champion Auburn and will face Ole Miss on Tuesday in the quarterfinals of match play. The semifinals are Tuesday afternoon, followed by the championship match on Wednesday. The other five teams to advance were Florida, Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia. Six of the eight teams are from the Southeastern Conference. ___ AP golf:
CBS News
22-05-2025
- Sport
- CBS News
Northwestern Women's Golf wins first national championship ever
Northwestern captured its first NCAA Women's golf title Wednesday when Dianna Lee holed a 5-foot par putt on the 18th hole to beat Andrea Revuelta for a 3-2 victory over top-seeded Stanford to end a final hour of high tension. Stanford advanced through stroke play with a record score to win by 27 shots and was poised to win its third NCAA title in four years and become the first team to win back-to-back since the move to match play in 2017. Instead, the Wildcats were screaming with delight at at La Costa when Lee — who had twice before missed putts that would have won it — delivered the biggest putt of her life. "More than doing what people didn't think you could is this group believing what it thought it could do," Northwestern coach Emily Fletcher said. Stanford junior Megha Ganne had a 5-and-4 win in the lead match, while Hsin Tai Lin of Northwestern scored a 3-and-2 victory. Laura Nguyen put the Wildcats on the verge of the title with a 7-foot birdie putt for a 1-up victory over Paula Martin Sampedro. That left Northwestern needing only one more point from either Dianne Lee, who was 3-up with five holes to play, or Elise Lee, who had taken her first lead over Stanford's Kelly Xu on the 15th hole. Stanford didn't go down without a might fight. Xu, who missed a 4-foot putt to fall behind for the first time all match, answered with a 15-foot birdie on the par-3 16th and a wedge to 10 feet for birdie on the 17th to regain control. They halved the 18th hole, giving Xu a 1-up victory and team score at 2-all. It came down to the final match that Dianna Lee once had firmly in her grasp. Revuelta bogeyed the 11th and 12th holes to fall 3 down with five holes to play, But she won the 14th with a par and holed a 15-foot birdie putt on the 15th to get within one. Lee was in a back bunker, blasted out to 7 feet and missed her par putt on the 16th. Revuelta, however, pulled her 4-foot par putt to stay 1 down. On the next hole, Lee had a 12-foot birdie putt to win the match and pulled it, running it nearly 5 feet by. Miss that and the match was all square. She holed it to stay 1 up going to the 18th. The par-5 closing hole amounts to a wedge contest with a stream guarding the green. Both players had about 18 feet. Lee's uphill putt spun hard off the left lip and rolled 5 feet by. Revuelta left her downhill putt short, setting up Lee with 5 feet for the win. This time, she made it and the celebration was on for Northwestern, which had reached the final once before in 2017 before losing to Arizona State. The finals at a glance Megha Ganne, Stanford, def. Ashley Yun, Northwestern, 5 and 4. Laura Nguyen, Northwestern, def. Paula Martin Sampedro, Stanford, 1 up. Hsin Tai Lin, Northwestern, def. Meja Örtengren, Stanford, 3 and 2. Kelly Xu, Stanford, def. Elise Lee, Northwestern, 1 up. Dianna Lee, Northwestern, def. Andrea Revuelta, Stanford, 1 up.
