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Whatever the NCAA tournament committee did to try to challenge the players at Stanford, the top seeded teams rose to the challenge.

Illinois (#3 seed) -17
Florida State (#1 seed) -13
Stanford (#5 seed) -11
Ole Miss (#2 seed) -9
Texas A&M (#4 seed) -9
UCLA (#6 seed) -3

Stanford had a good day that could have been much better. Thorbjornsen leads the team with 65 (-5). Beber-Frankel and Brown both carded 67s (-3). Vilips shot even par 70 and Gao was the drop score at 75.

Thorbjornsen's round included a hole out for an eagle on the 11th (his 2nd hole of the day).

Brown played his best golf of the season but we also saw the problems that have plagued him all year. He shot a bogey-free 31 (-4) on his first nine, then gave it all back on the next 4 holes with a double and 2 bogeys. But he finished strong, with birdies on 3 of the last 4 holes.

Vilips was all over the place. He shot to the top of the leaderboard at -6 after 10 holes. Then he bogeyed 6 of the final 8 holes to fall back to even. When I watched him play at Pasatiempo, he was hitting everything left off the tee. I wonder if he is fighting a recurrence of that.

Texas A&M had 2 aces today! One player aced #4 and another aced #17. The player with the hole in one on 17 followed it up with a quadruple bogey 8 on 18. That will dampen your hole in one celebration.

Scoreboard here - https://results.golfstat.com/public/lead...&tid=29182

I would welcome a first hand report from anyone able to be there in person.

I didn't see the rest of his round, but I saw Villips bogey #3, #4, and #8 [the three par 3's on his back nine].  In each case, the problem was way too aggressive long putts, leading to missed come backers. 

I also got to see the Texas A&M ace on #4.  Two bounces and in the hole.  As for the other ace on #17, I didn't see it, but I'm guessing the problem was a hole-in-one celebration that maybe wasn't dampened soon enough... :-)

One Illinois golfer was on track for a 59 thru #15, but couldn't keep the birdie train going through the last three holes.  Ended with a 63.

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Whatever the NCAA tournament committee did to try to challenge the players at Stanford, the top seeded teams rose to the challenge.

Illinois (#3 seed) -17
Florida State (#1 seed) -13
Stanford (#5 seed) -11
Ole Miss (#2 seed) -9
Texas A&M (#4 seed) -9
UCLA (#6 seed) -3

Stanford had a good day that could have been much better. Thorbjornsen leads the team with 65 (-5). Beber-Frankel and Brown both carded 67s (-3). Vilips shot even par 70 and Gao was the drop score at 75.

Thorbjornsen's round included a hole out for an eagle on the 11th (his 2nd hole of the day).

Brown played his best golf of the season but we also saw the problems that have plagued him all year. He shot a bogey-free 31 (-4) on his first nine, then gave it all back on the next 4 holes with a double and 2 bogeys. But he finished strong, with birdies on 3 of the last 4 holes.

Vilips was all over the place. He shot to the top of the leaderboard at -6 after 10 holes. Then he bogeyed 6 of the final 8 holes to fall back to even. When I watched him play at Pasatiempo, he was hitting everything left off the tee. I wonder if he is fighting a recurrence of that.

Texas A&M had 2 aces today! One player aced #4 and another aced #17. The player with the hole in one on 17 followed it up with a quadruple bogey 8 on 18. That will dampen your hole in one celebration.

Scoreboard here - https://results.golfstat.com/public/lead...&tid=29182

I would welcome a first hand report from anyone able to be there in person.

I didn't see the rest of his round, but I saw Villips bogey #3, #4, and #8 [the three par 3's on his back nine].  In each case, the problem was way too aggressive long putts, leading to missed come backers. 

I also got to see the Texas A&M ace on #4.  Two bounces and in the hole.  As for the other ace on #17, I didn't see it, but I'm guessing the problem was a hole-in-one celebration that maybe wasn't dampened soon enough... :-)

One Illinois golfer was on track for a 59 thru #15, but couldn't keep the birdie train going through the last three holes.  Ended with a 63.