Pepperdine rallied from a 12-stroke deficit in the final round to win the Amer Ari Invitational, and the Waves’ William Mouw claimed the individual title in a playoff on the Waikoloa Kings Course www.waikoloabeachgolf.com/waikoloa-golf-kings-course in Waikoloa, Hawaii.
The Waves, who won their own Southwestern Invitational to start a week earlier and have won three times during the 2019-20 season, posted a score of 281-274-270—825, 39-under-par, while Texas was second at 274-274-279—827, followed by Arizona State at 275-275-278—828, Oklahoma State at 276-282-271—829 and Georgia Tech at 274-269-287—830.
Pepperdine, which claimed back-to-back victories for the first time since 1996, has won three tournaments in a season for the second straight year and the fourth time in program history.
Mouw and Dylan Menante made eagles on their final holes to pull out the victory.
“It was an insane finish, just incredible,” Pepperdone Coach Michael Beard said. “What Dylan and Mouw did, that was crazy. Mouw made a six-foot birdie on 17 and a 45-foot eagle putt on 18 to tie before winning in the playoff.
“Dylan hit an unbelievable 4-iron on 18 to six feet and made an eagle, hit to seven feet on 1 for a birdie, and made it from 20 feet on No. 2, his last hole, for an eagle. We needed all of that the way it was going.
“This was just a total team win. This is probably one of the bigger tournaments we’ve won. We’re just going to keep going and get ready for The Prestige.”
Auburn was sixth at 279-280-272—831, followed by Texas Tech at 278-277-281—836, San Jose State at 286-282-284—852, Texas Christian at 284-286-284—854 and Oregon at 282-291-282—855.
USC finished 12th at 284-286-291—861, UC Davis was 14th at 289-286-291—866, Stanford was 15th at 295-284-289—868, Cal State Northridge finished 16th at 291-292-290—873 and Pacific was 17th at 304-285—287.
Mouw, a freshman from Chino who captured the 2019 California Amateur Championship, shot 71-68-64—203, 13-under, to finish even with Mason Andersen of Arizona State, who totaled 69-69-65—203, but Mouw took the title with a birdie on the first playoff hole.
Andy Ogletree of Georgia Tech posted a score of 68-66-70—204 to tie for third with Aman Gupta of Oklahoma State, who finished at 65-68-71—204, while Pierceson Coody of Texas was fifth at 72-66-67—205.
Sahita Theegala of Pepperdine, who claimed the individual title in the Southwestern Invitational, carded a score of 66-68-72—206 to tie for sixth with Graysen Huff of
Auburn, who wound up at 70-67-69—206, Tyler Strafaci of Georgia Tech, who shot 64-67-75—206 and Jovan Rebula of Auburn, who finished at 68-68-70—206.
Ferdinand Muller of Oklahoma State totaled 71-70-66—207 to tie for 10th with Sandy Scott of Texas Tech, who wound up at 68-72-67—207, Travis Vick of Texas, who shot 66-71-70—207, and Kotaro Murata of Hawaii, who came in at 68-68-71—207.
Beau Forest led Pacific in a tie for 21st at 73-70-67—210, Parker Sisk of San Jose State shot 73-72-67—212 to finish in a tie for 33rd that included his Spartan teammate Carl Corpus, who totaled 69-71-72—212, Daulet Tuleubayev of Stanford, who finished at 70-68-74—212, and Thomas Hutchison of UC Davis, who wound up at 69-68-75—212.
Leon D’Souza of USC tied for 39th at 69-70-74—213 and Mats Ege of Cal State Northridge tied for 44th at 70-71-73—214.
Rounding out the scoring for team champion Pepperdine were Dylan Menante in a tie for 14th at 72-71-65—208, Joey Vrzich in a tie for 21st at 72-69-69—210, and Derek Hitchner, who shot 74-72-70—216 to finish in a tie for 56th that include Waves teammate Clay Feagler, who wound up at 73-69-74—216.
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