Sophomore Ethan Fang clinched the win with a birdie three on the 17th for a 2&1 scoreline over Enrique Dimayuga. The trophy was the 42nd of Head Coach Alan Bratton’s time leading the program.

Six teams battled gusting winds and a firm, fast-running course at Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club in the 54-hole stroke play competition, with the Cowboys finishing at six over par to win by four over SMU.

Trailing by four going into the third and final round, OK State fired a superb closing 273 (-7) to leapfrog the leaders and San Diego State and qualify as top seeds for the match play final.

State rivals Oklahoma, #1 in the first rankings after two team wins in the fall, finished well with a team score of 277 (-1) but left themselves too much to do.

The Sooners had to settle for a place in the 3rd and 4th place playoff with San Diego State, which they won by 3.5 to 1.5.

OSU freshman Filip Fahlberg-Johnsson narrowly missed out on his first individual victory, shooting a closing 66 (-4) but falling on the first playoff hole to William Sides of SMU (below with women's individual winner Carolina Chacarra of Wake Forest). They were the only two players in the field to finish under par (-1) thru 54 holes. 

Sides came to the final hole of his round needing a par to force the playoff and clinch the Mustangs’ place in the team match play final.

The junior nailed a 12-foot putt to deliver the first part and then drained a six-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole to secure back-to-back individual titles for the SMU after Zachary Kingsland’s win at the Trinity Forest Invitational.

Ethan Fang (#19 in the first rankings) joined Fahlberg-Johnsson in the top five, recording a third consecutive top-10 of his first season as a Cowboy.