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Re: WGolf @ NCAA championship (2:10 pm pacific) - BostonCard - 05-25-2016

She has been clutch from that distance.

Now Kim needs to respond.

BC

Re: WGolf @ NCAA championship (2:10 pm pacific) - 2 for 2028 - 05-25-2016

Kim has about 10 feet to keep this going.  She hasn't putted well today.

Re: WGolf @ NCAA championship (2:10 pm pacific) - BostonCard - 05-25-2016

Yeah... tough spot.

10 foot putt to keep it alive.

BC

Re: WGolf @ NCAA championship (2:10 pm pacific) - cardfan77 - 05-25-2016

This is like a slow death....

Re: WGolf @ NCAA championship (2:10 pm pacific) - BostonCard - 05-25-2016

Wasn't meant to be.  Congrats to the Huskies, and to Alvarez who withstood everything Kim had to throw at her.  Tremendously gutty effort to come back from three down to square the match.  Just short, but what an effort.

BC

Re: WGolf @ NCAA championship (2:10 pm pacific) - 2 for 2028 - 05-25-2016

Well, I'm super proud of these girls.  They came up short, but that was one hell of a finish.  It was practically over 30 minutes ago. 

Re: WGolf @ NCAA championship (2:10 pm pacific) - Leftcoast - 05-25-2016

:-(

Thought we might have it after Stackhouse won on 20.  Wow ... two matches into extra holes - that's drama. 

Re: WGolf @ NCAA championship (2:10 pm pacific) - 2 for 2028 - 05-25-2016

Can someone let Garvin know?

Re: WGolf @ NCAA championship (2:10 pm pacific) - Griffins78 - 05-25-2016

Thank you Boston Card for posting and allowing us to follow. Your commentary provided so much color and was so much faster than the online tracker. It was stressful and exciting. Thank you!

Re: WGolf @ NCAA championship (2:10 pm pacific) - BigEasyCard - 05-25-2016

(05-25-2016, 07:39 PM)Griffin78 link Wrote:Thank you Boston Card for posting and allowing us to follow. Your commentary provided so much color and was so much faster than the online tracker. It was stressful and exciting. Thank you!

Yes, thank you for the strong Signal BC.

Geaux Cardinal!

Re: WGolf @ NCAA championship (2:10 pm pacific) - Treebound - 05-25-2016

Let me add my thanks to all who posted (esp BC)!  I called my family from Caltrain to record the end of the match, but the recording didn't extend into the extra holes so we came back to the thread to see what happened.  I really thought that we were in good shape with the two seniors, but it wasn't meant to be.  At least Alvarez got some redemption for the 3 putt lip out on 18.   

This thread was really fun to read!  I love the match play format for NCAAs and hope the men's team gets hot!  They can pull it off!

Re: WGolf @ NCAA championship (2:10 pm pacific) - 2006alum - 05-26-2016

Yes, thanks for the great posts. Was out last night and missed all of this, but it's fun to read back. Sooooooo close. But at least I feel really good about Washington winning - they were clutch all week and a school that rarely gets the limelight. So congrats to the Huskies, and great, great work by our team to make it back to the final match a year after taking home the title. Really gritty performances by all throughout the week.

Re: WGolf @ NCAA championship (2:10 pm pacific) - CTcard - 05-26-2016

Maybe things went better than we thought.

Unless my brain is tricking me (along with making me think I have free will), just seconds ago, the Pac 12 network ran a publicity announcement that said, "Congratulations to Stanford women's golf, 2016 national champions."

The TV broadcast on the Golf Channel must have been a hoax.
[And I would suspect the dawgies would be livid.]

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... at least I don't think I imagined the whole thing.

Re: WGolf @ NCAA championship (2:10 pm pacific) - Spiny_Norman - 05-26-2016

I cannot remember seeing it posted elsewhere, but any Stanford sports fan should read this nice piece by Mark Soltau on Mariah Stackhouse and Lauren Kim.  They are special Stanford athletes and I am going to miss seeing them in cardinal and white.

http://gostanford.com/fls/30600/Feature/ForeverLinked/

I want some of the magic pixie dust that UW sprinkled on their wedges and putters.  Their play around the green was superb.  It placed relentless pressure on the Stanford players who made some clutch shots of their own.  After a terrible three putt from 8 feet to turn what looked like a won hole into a lost hole, Lauren Kim finished regulation birdie-birdie-birdie-par to tie Alvarez.  And Stackhouse who struggled with her putter all day just kept grinding and made clutch putts when she needed to do so down the stretch.  That's just fantastic golf and fantastic drama.  Kudos and congratulations to both teams.

Guess what?  We get to start again tomorrow with the men's tournament.  72 holes of qualifying stroke play from Friday to next Monday.  Stanford is the overall #1 seed in the tournament.

Re: WGolf @ NCAA championship (2:10 pm pacific) - SemperCard - 05-26-2016

New guy here; have always enjoyed the positive but critically honest conversations here.

I'm very proud of the team for battling back to take those matches to extra holes.  A championship and 2d place in consecutive years is great.  But, just as many here have taken issue with Coach Shaw's play calling (up until the UCF game), I wonder if maybe Coach Walker should have advised Lauren Kim not to hit the hybrid on the 20th hole but just get onto the front of the green with an iron with her opponent off in the rough.  Anyway, a great effort by the Cardinal women - hope the men get just one more match win next week!

Re: WGolf @ NCAA championship (2:10 pm pacific) - BostonCard - 05-26-2016

Ha!  I only started posting because when Spiny_Norman and BigEasyCard looked like they had stopped just as my feed went out, I felt utterly helpless.  Once I got the feed going again on a different computer, I figured the least I could do is finish the job they started.

On the match itself, I will say that the change in format from stroke play to match play means the outcome is much more determined by chance than by skill (as someone else who played noted, it is possible to beat a much more skilled golfer in match play).  However, it more than makes up for it in excitement.  Even though we lost, that was one of the most exciting and thrilling finishes I've ever seen in any sport; akin to the comeback against Notre Dame that ended in the Ukropina field goal.  Had we completed the comeback, it would have handily exceeded the women's tennis comeback two days ago.  I can't say how impressed I was by Lauren Kim, who came back from three down with three holes to play to tie it.  That she couldn't win it in the second playoff hole is just a testament to her opponent, Alvarez, who hit a sick shot to within a couple feet from the hole. For a freshman to not collapse under pressure after having given up her three hole lead was damned impressive.

If there are any UW women's golf fans lurking here, congratulations.  It's always tough to lose, but the Huskies deserved their championship.

BC

P.S.  I don't play golf, so I may have mangled some of the terminology; I'm glad people got the idea.

Re: WGolf @ NCAA championship (2:10 pm pacific) - Treebound - 05-26-2016

I love the match play format for the NCAA's.  It was a great decision and has made for exciting finishes the last two years.  Semper, my recording stopped, so I didn't get to see the final hole, but I think you ask a reasonable question given what Kim did the first time she played 18.  Adrenalin must have been pumping.

So here is a beef that I do have with NCAA, as we've seen the impact in Tennis (to compete with Dick Gould), Water Polo and now golf (and I'm sure others):  more rosters that are stacked with foreign players.    This may be controversial, but I think a roster in any of these sports should be made up of at least 50% of the student athletes coming from the US.  Of the 5 UW players, 4 of them are from overseas.     

Even in tennis, where other schools went after foreign players to compete, Stanford and Gould continued to give most of the spots to US student athletes.    For me, 50% is a tipping point.  Basketball programs overseas limit the number of US players, so it is done elsewhere.

Re: WGolf @ NCAA championship (2:10 pm pacific) - Spiny_Norman - 05-26-2016

BC, thanks for jumping in with the continuing narration.  I had to get off the Cardboard at a most inopportune time.  I followed the finish on my phone.

This format is fantastic for everyone.  It creates excitement and interest and drama that cannot really be matched under a straight medal play format (except in rare instances like 2008 when UCLA's men beat Stanford by a single shot with U*S*C only one more shot back).  Yesterday's competition was as tense as anything we might see all year in any sport.  Imagine the pressure that Conrad Ukropina felt as he lined up for the kick vs. ND.  The UW and Stanford players had to deal with that every time they stepped up to a crucial shot.  I played junior golf including high school on a team that won a state championship.  I had flashbacks to my own feelings and emotions on the 1st tee at a match or other tense moment.  The performance by the players yesterday under those circumstances was at an incredibly high level.

SemperCard, I had a similar thought about both Danielson's shot on 17 and Kim's approaches on 18.  I believe that both hit hybrids and ended up long and left to a back pin placement when the middle of the green was wide open.  I think they were both playing for the middle of the green but maybe adrenaline took over.  Ah well.

For now, look at the faces of the national runners up.  I am glad to see the smiles.  They should be mighty proud of what they accomplished.

http://www.gostanford.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=30600&ATCLID=210977621

Re: WGolf @ NCAA championship (2:10 pm pacific) - 2006alum - 05-26-2016

(05-26-2016, 01:17 PM)Spiny_Norman link Wrote:For now, look at the faces of the national runners up.  I am glad to see the smiles.  They should be mighty proud of what they accomplished.
http://www.gostanford.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=30600&ATCLID=210977621
Indeed. Given the vagaries of match play, to make it to the championship match two years in a row really shows grit and clutch playing from the top to the bottom of the lineup. A proud week to be a Stanford fan/alum, between this and women's tennis!

Re: WGolf @ NCAA championship (2:10 pm pacific) - oldalum - 05-26-2016

The difference in the two teams was essentially one shot over 94 holes of play. It seems to me that that one or two unlikely (but highly skilled) shots or lucky or unlucky bounces probably determined the whole thing.