Wednesday, April 10, 1996
UCLA upsets USC and Stanford at U.S. IntercollegiateBy
Christopher Isidro
Daily Bruin Senior Staff
It was not a good weekend to be the favorite.
Just as a shark found rough waters at the Masters in Augusta,
Ga., Stanford had difficulties of its own on its home course at the
U.S. Intercollegiate this weekend, allowing the UCLA men’s golf
team to finish third against a steady field.
The unranked Bruins posted three rounds of 291 to finish three
strokes behind No. 33 Fresno State and two worse than No. 24
Pepperdine. On the other side of the coin, UCLA earned rare
victories over No. 11 Southern California and No. 17 Stanford minus
their best player Tiger Woods, who missed the cut in Augusta.
Senior Mike Miller recorded another stellar tournament finishing
with 213 over three rounds on the 6,781-yard, par-71 Stanford Golf
Course. Entering Monday morning, he was tied for first at
4-under-par 138. But in the final round, he surrendered four
strokes to par and allowed Stanford’s Joel Kribel to make a charge.
His final-round 70 gave him 211 for the tournament and medalist
honors by two strokes over Miller and Fresno State’s Matt
Christensen.
Freshman B.J. Schlegenhauf posted his best collegiate finish
with three steady rounds in the low-70s to finish 2-over-par 215,
good enough for a fourth-place tie. It was his third top-10 finish
of the season.
Darren Humphrey put on a final-round charge of his own, firing a
70 to leap into a tie for 21st place. His 1-under-par on Monday
tied his best round of the season.
Not all the Bruins lit up the leader board over the weekend. One
Bruin who was expected to be among the top of the field, senior
Eric Lohman, found himself in the middle of the pack. Lohman,
second behind Miller with a 74.48 stroke average coming in, fired a
12-over-par 225. It was the second time he tied for 34th place
after he finished second at the Anteater Invitational two weeks
ago.
The Bruins did not get much help from their fifth starter this
week as freshman Brandon DiTullio sandwiched a 75 with rounds of 81
and 79 to finish tied for 84th place.
The U.S. Intercollegiate marks the fourth and final event UCLA
had entered in a one-month span. After the Pacific 10 championships
in two weeks, the Bruins will likely have a date at the NCAA West
Regionals where they hope to qualify for their first appearance at
nationals in three years.