Justin Suh of USC captured the individual title and the Trojans rallied to beat Clemson by one stroke in the Georgia Collegiate Invitational at the Golf Club of Georgia https://www.golfclubofgeorgia.com in Alpharetta. Ga.
The Trojans, coached by Chris Zambri, trailed by eight strokes after the first round, but won the title with a score of 278-280-284—842, 22-under-par, while Clemson finished second at 276-280-287—843, followed by Georgia Tech at 270-289-286—845, Wake Forest at 276-281-291—848 and Alabama at 286-278-285—849.
Duke was sixth at 286-282-290—858, while UCLA totaled 293-284-290—867 to tie for seventh with Virginia, which finished at 287-288-292—867. Stanford was ninth at 288-281-299—868, followed by Texas A&M at 286-290-293—869.
Suh, a senior from San Jose who claimed the No. 1 spot in the World Amateur Golf Rankings this week, earned his first victory this season and seventh of his USC career with a score of 67-67-68—202, 14-under, while Luke Schniederjans of Georgia Tech shot 66-71-69—206 to tie for second with Turk Pettit of Clemson, who finished at 68-68-70—206.
Kengo Aoshima of Wake Forest was fourth at 67-70-71—208, followed by Alex Smalley of Duke at 68-69-72—209, and Brandon Wu of Stanford at 70-67-73—210, while Kyle Suppa of USC wound up at 70-67-74—211 to tie for seventh with Bryson Nimmer of Clemson, who shot 69-70-72—211, and his Tiger teammate, Jacob Bridgeman, who came in at 69-69-73—211.
Davis Riley of Alabama totaled 74-66-72—212 to tie for 10th with Thomas Walsh of Virginia, who finished at 70-74-68—212, Davis Shore of Alabama, who shot 70-71-71—212, Eugenio Chacarra of Wake Forest, who wound up at 66-72-74—212, and Wilson Furr of Alabama, who came in at 75-69-68—212.
Cole Madey led UCLA in a tie for 21st at 76-67-73—216, while rounding out the scoring for team champion USC were Kaito Onishi in a tie for 15th at 70-74-69—213, Charlie Reiter in a tie for 41st at 71-76-73—220 and Cheng Jin in a tie for 45th at 74-72-75—221.
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