IT’S TROPHY TIME AT RICH HARVEST FARMS Congratulations to Arizona State and Oklahoma on winning the Women’s and Men’s National Championships. A tip of the cap or golf visor to the NCAA and everyone at Rich Harvest Farms for two solid weeks of great golf. A fantastic job by the Lady Wildcats of Northwestern and the Men of Illinois. ______________________________________________________________________

THE GOG BLOG BY RORY SPEARS, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy.

AFTER TWO WEEKS it’s all over but the shouting. Boomer Sooner ! as the Oklahoma Sooner’s win the Men’s NCAA National Golf Championship at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove.

Oklahoma defeated the defending national champion Oregon by a score of 3 1/2 to 1 1/2 or 3-1-1 as the NCAA called it. The gallery was a good one of almost 1,000 patrons, and it is very good since it was the only day of the two weeks that a school from Illinois was not playing.

Oklahoma lifts the trophy

Oklahoma’s Brad Dalke closed out the matches by earning the winning point on the 17th hole for Oklahoma.

Sooner head coach Ryan Hybl started his press conference by congratulating the Ducks, for making it to the national championship two straight years. But when it came to his team Hybl said the following.

“We’re really excited about having the opportunity for one today, to go out there and win, and the guys did it. They executed when they had to, and I can’t be anymore proud of these guys than how I feel right now.”

Hybl summed up his teams long season that started on Labor Day weekend in 2016 at Pebble Beach, and then all the way to Rich Harvest Farms. Hybl called the year a “long season” and gratifying that his team would hoist the trophy.

Dalke on closing out the championship. “This has been a week to remember for sure. This was the goal in our minds since Pebble Beach at the beginning of the year. We knew we had the team to do it. We have depth in this team and we’re gritty and we fight until the last stroke.”

OREGON COACH CASEY MARTIN, “I think we didn’t play our best, obviously, but Oklahoma played wonderfully and have a bunch of good players. We didn’t seem to get a whole of of momentum early. A few guys got up, but as I was out there, it didn’t seem like we had many exciting things happen,not a lot of putts drop. So it’s hard to win when you’re playing a great team without a little bit of magic, that we didn’t quite have today.”

WYNDHAM CLARK won the lone match for Oregon. “I didn’t play my best today, but I hung in there and Rylee (Reinertson) played great. He’s a great guy and I had to grind it out. It was hard to get a feel on how the other guys were doing because we were so spread out and it was hard to build momentum off the other guys. That was tough, but I’m happy to have been here with these guys.”

After the Oregon press conference Clark was informed by Golfers on Golf that he had earned an exemption into the John Deere Classic next month in the Quad Cities.

The 2018 NCAA Championships is in Stillwater Oklahoma. See NCAA.com for details.