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Notre Dame golfer Palmer Jackson comes up two strokes short of NCAA individual title
Palmer Jackson’s attempt to give Notre Dame a second national championship on Memorial Day came up just short at the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships in Carlsbad, Calif.
Jackson, a graduate student and captain for coach John Handrigan’s Fighting Irish, shot a two-under-par 70 at the par-72, 7,538-yard North Course at Omni La Costa to finish tied for eighth at one-under 287 as the 72-hole individual championship ended Monday.
Jackson, who grew up in Murrysville, Pa. and whose first name honors golf great Arnold Palmer of nearby Latrobe, finished two strokes behind individual champion, sophomore Hiroshi Tai of Georgia Tech.
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Earlier Monday, Notre Dame captured its second NCAA Division I men’s lacrosse title with a 15-5 victory over Maryland at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. Just over 2,700 miles west, Jackson momentarily had a share of the lead with Tai with three holes remaining but played those holes in two-over par.
Tai closed with a one-under 71 and three-under 285 total and held off six golfers by a stroke: Illinois’ Tyler Goecke (71) and Max Herendeen (72), Florida State’s Luke Clanton (71), Auburn’s Jackson Koivun (71) and Vanderbilt’s Gordon Sargent (72).
Jackson, who finished eighth with Stanford’s Karl Vilips and third-round leader Adam Wallin of Ohio State, was trying to become the school’s first NCAA individual golf champion. Notre Dame won the 1944 NCAA team title under Father George Holderith at Inverness in Toledo. Handrigan’s Irish, who qualified for the team competition for the first time since 1966, failed to make the 54-hole cut Sunday, finishing tied for 23rd place in the 30-team field.
But Jackson moved on as an individual after rounds of 77, 68 and 72 for a one-over total of 217 after 54 holes. He started the final round tied for 16th place six shots behind Wallin and played the North Course’s back nine first.
Jackson made the turn at three-under 33 thanks to birdies at the par-4 13th and 17th holes and a third birdie on the 605-yard, par-5 18th. Jackson stumbled momentarily with a bogey on the 415-yard first hole but quickly got his momentum back with a birdie at the 622-yard, par-5 second hole.
Jackson, who has spent part of his graduate season as a mentor for youngsters in the First Tee program at Studebaker Park, then grabbed a share of the lead at the par-5, 581-yard sixth hole with a birdie to tie Tai, who already was finished. But Jackson dropped out of the lead with a bogey at the par-4, 521-yard seventh hole and then bogeyed the par-3 eighth, leaving both par-saving putts short.
Needing to hole out his second shot on the 426-yard ninth hole to finish tied, Jackson bunkered his approach. But he got up and down for a par with his 10-foot putt and walked off the green to a congratulatory hug from Handrigan.
The team competition continues with match play involving teams from Illinois, Vanderbilt, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida State, Auburn, Ohio State and Georgia Tech.
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