April 5, 2003
LAREDO, Texas - The San Diego State men's golf team closed the gap on the leaders in the final round of The Border Olympics, but actually slipped in the standings into a tie for third place. The Aztecs, who entered the day seven shots back of second-round leader Arkansas, closed to within two shots of the Razorbacks and host Texas A&M (859), which ended up as the team title-winner in a playoff.
SDSU shot a final-round 289 and its final total of 3-under 861 tied with Baylor, last year's champion. The Aztecs (No. 36 Golfweek/No. 40 Golfstat), the second-highest ranked team in the field behind No. 23/21 Arkansas, recorded their third under-par total of the season after coming their worst performances of the season in the last two events. The host Aggies (No. 62 Golfweek/No. 58 Golfstat) shot the low round of the day with a 10-under 278 to come all the way back from sixth place and 16 shots down after the second round.
Senior Lars Johansson (Karlskrona, Sweden/Champanskolam HS), who entered the day just two shots back of the individual leaders while looking for his second title of the spring, shot a final-round 74 and ended up in fourth place at 5-under 211. Johansson finished six shots behind medalist Andrew Dahl of Arkansas (205, -11), the highest-ranked player in the field at No. 30 by Golfweek. Johansson's fourth-place finish is his second top-10 of the year and comes after 61st- and 58th-place finishes in his last two events after winning the spring-opening John Burns Intercollegiate in February.
Junior Mark Warman (San Clemente, Calif./San Clemente HS) improved his score by three shots in each of the last two rounds (75-72-69) and his 3-under-par performance in the final round netted his fifth top-20 of the year. He ended up in a tie for 15th place at even-par 216 along with senior Brian Miller (Madras, Ore./Saddleback JC), who improved his score by one in each round (73-72-71) for his best result as an Aztec starter this year.
Sophomore Aaron Choi (San Diego, Calif./Torrey Pines HS) and freshman Andrew Scott (Henderson, Nev./Green Valley HS) each recorded final-round 75s and finished in 50th and 65th place, respectively.
SDSU has less than a week off before another Friday-Saturday event at the April 11-12 ASU Thunderbird Invitational in Tempe, Ariz.
FINAL RESULTS Border Olympics Laredo C.C. Laredo, TX** Playoff Winner Dates: 04/04 - 04/05 (Today:04-05-2003) Par: 72 Yardage: 7125
Fin. School Scores ** 1 Texas A&M University 286 295 278 859 -5 2 Arkansas, U. of 276 289 294 859 -5 3 San Diego State U. 288 284 289 861 -3 Baylor University 285 290 286 861 -3 5 Kansas State Univ. 288 293 288 869 +5 6 SMU 287 295 289 871 +7 7 Brigham Young Univ. 291 286 297 874 +10 8 UAB 288 296 291 875 +11 9 Colorado State Univ. 297 284 295 876 +12 10 Iowa State Univ. 295 293 289 877 +13 11 Lamar University 289 288 302 879 +15 12 Texas-Arlington 300 290 290 880 +16 13 Washington State U. 309 286 289 884 +20 14 Notre Dame, U. of 302 297 286 885 +21 15 Rice University 300 292 295 887 +23 Texas-San Antonio 292 296 299 887 +23 17 Texas Tech Univ. 295 301 292 888 +24 18 Southwest Texas St U 297 301 292 890 +26 19 Rhode Island, U. of 295 292 307 894 +30 20 Louisiana-Lafayette 294 316 300 910 +46
Top 10 Individuals Fin. Name School Scores 1 Andrew Dahl Arkansas 65 71 69 205 -11
2 Stephen Reed Texas A&M 70 70 69 209 -7 Ryan Baca Baylor 71 68 70 209 -7
4 Lars Johansson SanDiegoSt 70 67 74 211 -5
5 Daniel Summerhays BYU 72 71 69 212 -4
6 Kevin Oswald Iowa State 72 72 69 213 -3 Martin Laird Col. St. 75 66 72 213 -3 Nicholas Loar SMU 69 72 72 213 -3
9 Mark Van Hoose Lamar 69 66 79 214 -2 Andrew Parr Texas A&M 71 72 71 214 -2
Aztec Individuals Fin. Name School Scores 4 Lars Johansson SanDiegoSt 70 67 74 211 -5 T-15 Mark Warman SanDiegoSt 75 72 69 216 E T-15 Brian Miller SanDiegoSt 73 72 71 216 E T-50 Aaron Choi SanDiegoSt 70 77 75 222 +6 T-65 Andrew Scott SanDiegoSt 77 73 75 225 +9