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Washington & Woolsey WIN! Husky men battle the best in Pac-12 and pull out a win for the ages taking the team and individual titles at Aldarra CC BY BOB SHERWIN • FOR GO HUSKIES MAGAZINE
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ALL CITY, Wash. — As Washington’s Noah Woolsey dueled down the back nine with Stanford’s Barclay Brown at the Pac-12 Championship on April 27, the weight of the individual title as well as the team title grew heavier with each hole. Brown made four birdies in a row, on Aldarra Country Club’s holes 12 through 15, while Woolsey double bogeyed the short par 4 17th. His lead had shrunk to just one stroke heading to the 438-yard par 4 18th, one of the toughest finishing holes in the state. But Woolsey, the Husky senior from Pleasanton, Calif., hit a dynamic approach shot to within 10 feet of the hole on 18. It was a golden shot that solidified both titles. Woolsey, who shot a 3-under 68 for a three-round total of 276, parred the hole, as did Brown, to win by one. He finished two
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CHAMPIONS ahead of Oregon’s Yuki Moriyama. The 8thranked Huskies took the team title by three shots over 17th-ranked Stanford while 4thranked Arizona State finished third, eight strokes behind. It marked the third title (first outright) for Woolsey this season to go with five seconds, two thirds and two fourth places. The other
Huskies who can now call themselves Pac-12 champions were: Chaun Tai-Lin (T10, 2-over 286), Petr Hruby (T22, 5-over 289), Bo Peng (T22, 5-over 289), Taehoon Song (T24, 6-over 290) and R.J. Manke (T28, 8-over 292). This is the seventh team title for the Huskies, the first since 2010. “We made the shots we needed to make,” Huskies sixth-year coach Alan Murray said. For Woolsey, winning the conference crown is no small feat. Some of the more prominent past winners are: Cal’s Collin Morikawa (2019, two-time major champion and former world No. 2), ASU’s Jon Rahm (2016, former world No. 1), Stanford’s Tiger Woods (1996, 15-time major champion, etc.) and ASU’s Phil Mickelson (1990, six-time major champion). Continued on page 30
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