The Sooners’ fifth-year senior returned for 2021 after telling coach
Ryan Hybl, simply, I want rings.”
OU is one step closer to doing just that after Cummins drained a 6-foot putt for birdie on the 17th hole to beat Cameron Sisk 2 and 1 on Tuesday at Grayhawk Golf Club to push the Sooners to a match play victory over top seed and host Arizona State.
Quade Cummins
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Oklahoma faces Pepperdine in Wednesday’s finals in Scottsdale, AZ. The championship match starts at 3:35 p.m. CT and Golf Channel s coverage begins at 4.
“Yeah, I’m mean, tomorrow’s what we’ve been working for all year long,” Hybl said in an interview on Golf Channel. “Couldn’t be more excited for our guys in this moment.”
Oklahoma is back in familiar territory.
The Sooners finished fourth in the stroke-play portion of the NCAA Men’s Golf Championships at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, AZ, and advance to their fifth consecutive match play round.
OU (10-over par) is the only team in the nation to make every match play championship since 2016.
“(Tuesday) we ll start a completely different golf tournament with match play, head coach
Ryan Hybl said in a press release. “We re excited to be in this position like we have been for the last five years, it s really special for our program. If we want to avoid going home (Tuesday) then we ll have to come out and play great golf and execute.”
Oklahoma was close. But Oklahoma State is the champion.
The Sooners finished runner-up to OSU on Wednesday at the Big 12 Men’s Golf Championship in at 6,947-yard, par-70 Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, KS.
The difference was one stroke.
“We re obviously disappointed with how today turned out,” OU coach
Ryan Hybl said in a press release. “We feel like we re as good, if not better than any of the teams out here. I thought we just played OK over the last two days and left a lot of putts out there, and it caught up to us.
“It s my job as the coach to help this team use this feeling as motivation and get ready for what we hope is a deep run into the NCAA Championship.”