Cardinal come back to win Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate

October 23, 2022 | by Jim Young of AmateurGolf.com

Stanford erases a six-shot deficit to win the team title while Hiroshi Tai of Georgia Tech claims medalist honors

Sunday's final round of the Golf Club of Georgia Intercollegiate had all the makings of a southern shootout between Georgia Tech and Tennessee until a group of northerners crashed the party.

Stanford fired the best round of the day, an 8-under 280 and finished at 23-under 841 for the event, nipping Georgia Tech and Pepperdine by a single stroke to take home its second team title of the fall.

Tennessee, which had closed to within three of the lead following its 16-under round on Saturday, stumbled to 4-over 292 on Sunday to fall out of contention, ultimately finishing fourth at 14-under 850.

The Cardinal made up most of its ground on the inward nine where it was 9-under on the closing holes.

Hiroshi Tai

Michael Thorbjornsen, who tied for third at 11-under and just two strokes behind medalist Hiroshi Tai of Georgia Tech, birdied four of the final five holes to finish with a 5-under 67 while Karl Vilips played his final 11 holes at 4-under to finish even for the day.

The Cardinal also counted a 4-under 68 from fifth-year senior Ethan Ng, who was 3-under over his final 12 holes to tie for 10th at 5-under.

The win is Stanford's second victory of the spring, following its win at the OFCC/Fighting Illini Invitational in September.

Tai shot a 3-under-par 69 to finish off a hard-fought wire-to-wire victory, but it didn't come easy.

The freshman from Singapore was 5-under on his round through 11 holes to get to 15-under for the tournament, but he bogeyed three of the next five holes to fall back into a tie for the lead. He regained the outright lead by rolling in an 18-foot birdie putt of 17 and sealed the win with a two-putt par on the last to finish at 13-under 203, one stroke clear of Kelly Chinn of Duke, who fired the day’s best round with a 6-under-par 66.

Results: Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate

Place	Player	Location	Pts	Scores
1	Hiroshi Tai	, Singapore	800	65-69-69=203
2	Kelly Chinn	Great Falls, VA	500	69-69-66=204
T3	Michael Thorbjornsen	Wellesley, MA	400	68-70-67=205
T3	William Mouw	Chino, CA	400	68-69-68=205
T5	Ross Steelman	Columbia, MO	400	69-70-69=208

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Cardinal come back to win Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate

The United States Collegiate Championship, hosted by Georgia Tech, annually brings 15 of the nation's top college teams to The Golf Club of Georgia for a three-day, 54-hole tournament that has been called "the Masters of college golf.” Started in 200...