Fate again met, because Oklahoma State wins 12. NCAA title

Carlsbad, California – That was exactly 30 years since he wins victory in victory in winter Panford in Columbus in Columbus, Columbus, in Columbus in his closing season.

Like Bratton, a two-headed cowboy, sat in the living room on Wednesday morning in Omni La Costa, just a few hours before his team was placed on the face of Virginia at the championship, recalled legendary Golf week Writer Ron Balicki chose Oklahoma State to win three decades ago. It was a fine that worried the cowboy religious given the Balicki, generally known as “wrong Ron” for his propensity to suddenly in his choice of NCA, has not yet anticipated the right champion. The night before the last round, cowboys, three shots from the lead, returned from dinner to find a sticky note on the hotel rooms in Tripp Kuehne. Message, they are written in a pen, reading, Believe in fate.

“We didn’t know who put it there, but Tripp ended up by writing him on a golf ball,” Bratton said. “We must, we win, Tripp tells the story, and Balickie says it. Good story, didn’t I, how I was still thinking, I bet, I bet Balicki put the note on the door.”

At one championship in the early 2000s, Bratton, then the ping tail finally got Balicki to admit it.

“He wrote his own story,” Bratton added with his calm.

Until Wednesday night, Bratton’s team made their shooting 12. NCAA program championships and first in seven years.

When Bratton shared the story of Balicki’s record on Tuesday night after an exciting semifinal victory over Ole Miss, Sophomore Ethan Fang, one of two cal transfers in cowboys starting for five years, he decided to write acronym Offer On his ball for his anchorage opposite Bryan Lee. He couldn’t hurt, he understood, and with every place he hit him on Wednesday, he saw inspiration. The final time was Fang lined up your ball, 16. green with 1-up advantage on Lee, he never has to hit him. There is no need to, as Eric Lee, another arrival from Berkeley, and is about 300 meters away, and it is just accepted by a bird, and the winner for sealable victories and points at 4-1. Oklahoma State from about 200 supporters, who, in the words of Sophomore Gaven Lane, “overpowered” Cavalier Condining all day and took out his weight well in the trophy presentation.

How are they cowboys!

“It’s too,” Eric Lee said. “I didn’t hear the crowd in a while loud, or in fact, it’s cool feeling, and it’s great to be a state champion with all these guys.”

Bratton Herogy 1995. She ensured that he and the fellow citizens of Chris Tidland avoided becoming the first players who played under the then coaches of Mike Holder for four years, not to win the National Title. This year’s cowboys, burdened with talent, but also to the youthful detachment, and no juniors starting in postseason, contributed to the longest victory drought in the history of the program before he abolished his 19-tournament slider on Jackson T. Stephens Cup. That was a moment, Bratton said, when everything came together. The cowboys translated that momentum into their spring opener in Hawaii and won that event. They would end this season with six total tournament titles, and no. National Rank and a couple of first-class all Americans in Fang and Sophomore Preston Stout, who have been capturing their other a few weeks a large large 12 medal in the last round.

Stout won his first two matches, in the quarterfinal against Oklahoma and in half of the year, before he fell on the triple-class Ben James, 3 and 2, in the third match on Wednesday. That would be the only point, Virginia would get, although not because of lack of competitiveness.

Playing in your first final, tenth-ranked cavalirs, ranked in the same place as Northwest women a week beforeHe quickly jumped on each of the last four matches against a modern golf dynasty – Oklahoma State is now tied to the third-majority of national titles, which came to the NCAA-record 76 performances, and also owns a dozen large 12 titles; Virginia just reported his first victory in the championship in 72 years last month.

The only exception was the scientific, where Filip Fahlberg Johnsson found himself in a pleasant position. Bratton wanted to send his most experienced game first, and who completed the Swedish freshman, which is with land, a former cowboy who knew about British amateur amateur, and that Oklahoma is coming out of Stanford with only four players.

Uber-confident Fahlberg Johnsson, who seemed to be afraid of a little game, won the first hole of the first year Maxi Puregger, 3 and 1, and secured a 3-0 winter holes in a match in the match that wrapped in the dark. The end was reminiscanted the Semi-final The Cowboys’ NCAA with a Texas Golf Club blessing in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where Zach Bauchou entered the trip after the sun had set the dominant state titles Oklahoma.

The year before that, at the 2018 NCAA championship, Bauchou opened his last match with the front of nine 29 to set the tone in the cowboy of 5-0 Alabama in front of thousands of fans in Karsten Creek. Bratton occasionally breaks out his orange polo from that victory for great events, and he made a fortnight, even though the top stayed under the black coat, and the sea layer never burns and temperatures remain in the 50s.

The second message Bratton was delivered to his players in Eva finals on Wednesday was the “channel of their internal bauchou”. His detachment was not short on inspiration. Rickie Fowler, perhaps the most recognizable cowboy alum, spared with Bratton all week, and even shared the conversation screen recordings that had a bicycle legend of Lance Armstrong, which was pasted on Tuesday (Bratton had to inform some of his players who were). Viktor Hovland also looked at the club house in the village of Muirfield.

And Kuehne, one of the biggest career amateurs of all time, flew away on Wednesday morning to potentially testifying fate. He wasn’t disappointed.

Lane crossed 2 down after seven holes before the bird for the first last eight to publish the most amazing day, a victory of 4 and 3, who spent three years in the Virginia’s Club team before earned before. Fang won four straight holes on her back nine to turn the match while Eric Lee birds are three their last four holes.

Fang, the mother Texas, strongly thought that Oklahoma kept the employment before his friend Lee convinced him to join him in Cal. But a week to school, Fangs’s car was violated. “I quickly learned that I was not a big city,” Fang said, who would enter the transfer portal after Cal’s Izaa’s exit last year in La Costau. And he returned the service, withdrawal Lee with him in the water. “We call that now,” Lee wrote.

Fang remembers the bratton’s field last summer: “If you want to win the national championship, you have to come to Oklahoma State.”

“And he was right,” Fang added.

Stratton Nolen can confirm. The current cowboy assistant was a reserve in that State team in 2018. who sent five players on the PGA tour, including Hovland and the buildings of the winner Tour Matt Wolff and Austin EcCroat. He was Nolen reminded by Eric Lee, with Lee bound by Duangmane at 15. Team, to “believes in your destiny.”

About an hour later, this fate was realized.

The only difference was Balicki was not around to write about it.

Balicki died of cancer in 2014. in 65 years. When there was a coverage of golf in college, Balicki was a pioneer. The players adored him, trusting him; Fowler made only one phone call to announce that the Pro turned, in Balicki, who returned that love in Pik. One summer, when he was told he couldn’t travel to the northeast amateur, Balicki informed his boss to rest that he covered him anyway. His last NCA Championship was coming in 2013. years – he picked up unbeaten Cal, who lost in the semifinal alabama.

Bratton gives Balicki a lot of loans for a place where sports is today – for $ 1 million, private jet, six-sided nil, television tournaments on the golf channel. He discovered a rare tear that talks about Balickia on Wednesday morning, and approximately 12 hours later he closed his victorious interview by remembering the wrong ron.

“I was thinking about him all week and what a special guy,” Bratton said. “We don’t have all this without someone telling the story of the college golf, and Ron Balicki did it like no one else.”

Even long after his death, Balicki still inspires state champions.