Travis Johnson had beaten down the door all spring. He watched each of his golfing teammates walk to the winner’s circle and collect their trophies, every time wondering when his time would come. The thought of becoming an individual champion consumed him. Whenever he walked down the final hole of a tournament that he had […]
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M. golf: 12th hole stymies Bruins, drops team to 2nd place
UCLA men’s golf coach O.D. Vincent had a blueprint for how he thought the NCAA Championships would play out. In his mind, no one single team would run away from the rest of the field, and no one single hole could prove destructive enough to drown his team’s championship hopes. For the first 65 holes […]
M. golf: Wash Out
HOT SPRINGS, Va. “”mdash; Standing on the 203-yard, par-3 18th tee drenched in a persistent downpour, UCLA senior Roy Moon thought his team needed a miracle. Moon pulled a 6-iron from his bag, took dead aim at the precarious pin, and let fly with the final tee shot of his collegiate career. The ball, which […]
M. golf: Moon rising
It was a subtle gesture, but it meant the world to senior men’s golfer Roy Moon. After senior John Merrick drained a 25-foot birdie putt on his 18th hole at the Cascades Course in Hot Springs, Va., he picked up the flag, took a few paces toward the 18th tee, and raised his fist to […]
M. golf: Men’s golf tied for sixth after Round Two
The fifth-ranked UCLA men’s golf team’s biggest move up the leaderboard Wednesday in the second round of the NCAA Championships came well after senior Travis Johnson putted out for par on the 18th hole. In fact, the move came when the team was eating lunch. Having teed off just after the sun peeked over the […]
M. golf: Men’s golf off to rough start
There’s an old adage in golf that you can’t win a tournament on the first day of the competition. But you can lose one. The No. 5 UCLA men’s golf team came dangerously close to losing sight of the leaders at the first round of the NCAA Championships in Hot Springs, Virginia, on Tuesday. But […]
M. golf: Men’s golf takes first-round swing at NCAAs
When UCLA men’s golf coach O.D. Vincent exits the parking lot every day after work, he steals a subtle glance to his right at the golf practice facility on campus. At that time of day, it’s usually empty. But for the last three weeks, Vincent has peered out his car window and witnessed something different. […]