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Lifelong Frog
How TCU’s Hayden Springer defeated the world’s top-ranked amateur for the Big 12 title
By Drew Davison
Oklahoma State’s Viktor Hovland is the world’s top-ranked amateur golfer. He sat in famed Butler Cabin earlier this month as the low amateur at the Masters.
Most would have predicted Hovland would win the Big 12 men’s golf championship at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, on Sunday, especially when he started the final round as co-leader alongside TCU senior Hayden Springer at 8-under.
But Springer embraced the challenge and made clutch putt after clutch putt en route to the individual title Sunday. He shot an even-par 70, one better than Hovland’s 71, to claim his first collegiate championship at 8-under 202.
Read more here: https://www.star-telegram.com/sport...niversity/article229785954.html#storylink=cpy
By Drew Davison
Oklahoma State’s Viktor Hovland is the world’s top-ranked amateur golfer. He sat in famed Butler Cabin earlier this month as the low amateur at the Masters.
Most would have predicted Hovland would win the Big 12 men’s golf championship at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, on Sunday, especially when he started the final round as co-leader alongside TCU senior Hayden Springer at 8-under.
But Springer embraced the challenge and made clutch putt after clutch putt en route to the individual title Sunday. He shot an even-par 70, one better than Hovland’s 71, to claim his first collegiate championship at 8-under 202.
Read more here: https://www.star-telegram.com/sport...niversity/article229785954.html#storylink=cpy