NCAA Division I Championship: UCLA By 1

May 31, 2008 | by

It's UCLA - Stanford - USC in the team event, while Kevin Chappell of UCLA is top individual

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana (May 31, 2008) --It was an exciting finish at Purdue's Kampen Course, as the NCAA Division I Championshiop came down to the wire.

UCLA clung to alternating one, two and three-shot leads during the final few holes. The UCLA lead was one with two players from UCLA and two from USC remaining on the course: freshman Tim Sluiter and sophomore Rory Hie for USC and Kevin Chappell and Eric Flores for UCLA.

Chappell holed a chip shot on the 17th hole to save bogey while Sluiter had to settle for double bogey. Meanwhile on 18, both Hie and Flores carded bogeys. This left USC one shot behind Stanford, two behind UCLA. Sluiter had about a 20-foot birdie putt on 18 to put pressure on UCLA and tie Stanford, but it stopped virtually a hair short of the hole.

Results: NCAA Division I Championship

Place	Player	Location	Pts	Scores
1	Kevin Chappell	Fresno, CA	1500	69-73-68-76--286
T2	Jorge Campillo	, Spain	1200	75-70-72-72--289
T2	Nick Taylor	, Canada	1200	75-66-73-75--289
T4	Rickie Fowler	Murrieta, CA	900	74-77-70-73--294
T4	Sihwan Kim	Buena Park, CA	900	77-72-74-71--294

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About the NCAA Division I Championship

The NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship is the pinnacle of collegiate golf in the United States, held annually in late May or early June. The event brings together the nation's top 30 teams and six individual qualifiers, all of whom have advanced...