Oklahoma State Women’s Golf Misses Finals After Triple at Last Hole

Through 449 holes of play by the Oklahoma State women’s golf team at the NCAA Championships in Oregon, the Cowgirls needed a single par from Linnea Johansson to advance to the match play portion of the tournament (a bogey would have put them in a tie with 8th place Oregon).

The 450th hole was a disaster.

This is the sort of thing that’s tough to watch. Johansson, with Oregon’s entire team looking on in hopes that she might make double bogey or worse so they could advance, made triple.

“It’s tough to see anybody [go through that], but that’s the game of golf sometimes,” Oklahoma State coach Courtney Jones told Golf Channel. “Sometimes it happens when you’re on the first hole, sometimes middle of the round, sometimes last hole of the round. It’s tough to see, we don’t want to see anybody go through that.

“It’s going to make her stronger, she’s such a competitor and fighter and I know she’s going to come out even better after this.”

Johansson touched off the second-best scoring average in school history at 72.74 with her 27th place finish. But it could have been (and probably should have been) better.

Jones isn’t wrong though. This stuff does happen. We saw it with Jordan Spieth on a much bigger stage just over a month ago. Nobody is immune. That’s sort of the great thing about golf.

I would like to echo what Dave Hunziker said after the round, by the way. This is no consolation for someone clearly this competitive, and this is the type of thing that can stay with you a long time.

But hopefully Johansson is able to move on quickly and come back for an even better senior season.

OSU family:let's give huge orange hug to Linnea Johannson after heartbreaking finish. Your OSU family treasures you.@OSUcowgirlgolf #okstate

— Dave Hunziker (@Gopokesvoice) May 24, 2016