The Oregon men’s golf team had its worst showing of the fall season this week, despite facing its easiest competition at the Prestige at Palm Desert.
The Ducks ended their last tournament of the fall season in ninth place, their lowest finish since the NCAA West Regionals at the end of last season. The team shot a final-round 299, its worst round of the tournament, to drop from eighth to ninth Tuesday.
Only one top-25 team competed in the 15-team field at the Prestige. No. 7 Northwestern won the tournament when it recovered from a first-round 291 and shot rounds of 281 and 283, respectively. The Wildcats won the Prestige by one stroke over Pepperdine. Hosts Stanford and California-Irvine finished third and fourth, respectively.
Individually, sophomore Chris Carnahan and junior Aaron Byers led the Ducks at the Prestige. In four tournaments this season, Carnahan and Byers have paced the Ducks once each.
Carnahan and Byers each shot a 222 to finish tied-for-29th. Junior Brandon Harnden, senior Matt Genovese and senior T.J. Duncan all finished behind Carnahan and Byers, but were only separated by three strokes.
Harnden finished tied-for-37th, Genovese was 41st and Duncan finished 50th. Sophomore John Ellis, who finished 60th, also placed for Oregon.
The Ducks will now start the process of preparing for the all-important spring tournaments.
Oregon will play at the Ping Arizona Intercollegiate in Tucson, Ariz., January 29-30, to kick off the spring season. The Ducks will then play seven tournaments before the Pacific-10 Conference Championships in April. After that, Oregon will play in the NCAA West Regionals, where it tripped up last year, which would make or break a trip to the NCAA Championships in North Carolina next May.
The Ducks assembled an impressive fall season, scoring two fifth-place finishes, one second-place finish and the ninth-place they secured at the Prestige.
Ducks end fall season at Prestige
Daily Emerald
November 8, 2000
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